Open For Business
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Open For Business
The flagship entrepreneurship show on BFM, featuring personal business stories from early stage start-ups, all the way to billionaire octogenarians in Malaysia and abroad. Notable guests include Martin Cooper (father of the mobile phone), Julian Assange (founder of WikiLeaks), Ralph Henry Baer (fath...
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Turning iPhone Videos Into A 6-Figure Wedding Empire
When Muns and Pareesha started The Wedding Diaries in 2023, the concept of a "wedding content creator" didn't really exist in Malaysia. Betting on a g...
How Decube Is Unblocking Enterprise AI
Major enterprises are rushing to deploy AI, but many are hitting a brick wall: their underlying data is a mess. AI is only as smart as the context it’...
Is Regenerative Business Just A Luxury? A 50,000km Quest For The Truth
Is "regenerative business" a practical reality, or just an ESG buzzword? Benjamin Parent decided to find out by doing something extreme: quitting his...
From Hipster Tea To RM3 Million: WonderBrew’s Mass Market Formula
For years, kombucha was dismissed as a niche, "hipster" health drink. Now, WonderBrew has transformed it into a mainstream Malaysian beverage, scaling...
12 Studios, 8 Figures, PE-Backed: Inside The Flow Studio
How do you scale "good vibes" & namaste into a sustainable, 8-figure business? On the surface, the boutique fitness industry looks like a beautiful bl...
Can This Startup Democratise Diagnostics?
Advanced diagnostics often remain locked inside centralised laboratories and are technically impressive, but inaccessible to many who need them most....
20 Years, 300 Stores: Inside Coolblog's Post-Founder Era
How does a homegrown, 20-year-old beverage brand survive the influx of massive foreign competitors like Mixue? Coolblog CEO Sueli Lew joins us to unpa...
Beyond Dead Batteries: The Business Of Roadside Rescue
BateriHub doubled from 100 to 200 branches in a year, promising roadside battery support within the hour. But what does it really take to scale reliab...
The Growthpro Strategy to Combat Traditional SEOs
Most digital agencies sell rankings and traffic. Growth.pro sells visibility within AI systems.
Founder and CEO, Alvin Koay, has built an...
30+ Years Of Serai: Building A 9-Figure F&B Family Biz
Running a restaurant is notoriously brutal. Running one successfully for over three decades is rare. Scaling it into a 9-figure, multi-brand F&B empir...
Foodie Media: From RM1 A Day To RM75M IPO
From making less than RM1 a day as a Penang food blog, to ringing the bell on a RM75 million ACE Market IPO. Foodie Media’s co-founders share their re...
How AquFish Is Turning Fish Farms Smart
Aquaculture is one of the fastest-growing food production sectors, but it’s also exposed to volatility, rising feed costs, water quality risks, and un...
Carsome, But For Car Servicing? ServAuto's RM24M Raise
Would you trust a TikTok live streamer to sell you car servicing? Armed with US$6 million (RM24 million) in recent funding, ServAuto is betting that y...
The Evolution Of Oxwhite
Once known for its 120-day pre-order white shirts, Oxwhite has since evolved into an omnichannel retail brand with physical stores, a broader product...
Using “Tiny Homes” To Build A RM150M Hotel Chain
In 2017, Adrian Chia turned a holiday joke into Big Tiny, a "tiny house" hospitality group that now manages over 1,000 keys across 22 countries.
...
15 Clinics and Counting. What’s Next For Kyno?
In Malaysia’s fragmented primary care landscape, Dr. Saifulhaziq Noorman is building something more structured. Through Kyno Primary Care and its 14-c...
Pulling The Rug From Tradition
For many heirs in Malaysia’s family businesses, the biggest decision is not how to grow what they inherit, but whether to stay at all. Kelvin Khandhar...
Battery Subscription For Commercial Vehicles?
What if your truck battery never failed again?
For a logistics firm, a dead battery is more than just a nuisance, it’s a broken timeline,...
Can A Catering Business Really Scale? RunningMen Did
Building a catering business is easy to start, and notoriously hard to scale. For Andrew Chee, Founder and CEO of RunningMen Celebrations Group, the c...
The Business of Slow Blooms: Why Nook Flowers is Choosing Principles Over Profits
In an industry often defined by high-speed logistics and international imports, Brenda James of Nook Flowers is carving out a different path in Malays...
It’s Not About Coffee. How ZUS Beat Starbucks.
From a single kiosk to beating Starbucks and becoming Malaysia’s largest coffee chain in just 6 years.
The journey began just months before the...
Can This Startup Rewire Medical Tourism?
Malaysia has top hospitals, competitive pricing, and a strong reputation in medical tourism yet much of the demand is still controlled by foreign inte...
Her Duit: Why Money Is No Longer Enough
What do you do when you’ve built a loyal audience and 5 years of momentum, but you feel trapped by the very niche that built you?
Michelle Chin,...
Her Duit: Why Money Is No Longer Enough
What do you do when you’ve built a loyal audience and 5 years of momentum, but you feel trapped by the very niche that built you?
Michelle Chin,...
Applecrumby’s New Chapter: Scaling Past E-Commerce
Two years ago, Applecrumby was navigating its transition from a long bootstrapped journey into its next growth phase. Today, the company is expanding...
How This Marketer is Turning Practitioners to Paid Professionals
Many professionals have deep expertise but struggle to turn that into a credible, sustainable career as a trainer, facilitator, or industry practition...
Turning Banking Apps Into Billboards? The Buzz Pivot
In 2022, brothers Joshua and Joel Lim set out to eliminate single-use plastics with BeeBag, a gamified reusable bag venture. But after facing a hard t...
Scaling the Sweet Spot: The Discipline of Gula Cakery
In an F&B landscape often defined by rapid burnout and aggressive discounting, Arieni Ritzal has taken a different path. Since her last visit to the s...
Building Huddle: AirUpThere’s Startup Journey
Grassroots sports have always had the talent, the passion, and the stories but rarely the technology.
AirUpThere Technologies is trying t...
From Gaming Chairs to Building Ergonomic Lifestyles
Two years ago, TTRacing was already a fast-growing gaming chair brand making its mark across Southeast Asia. Since then, the business has continued to...
1.9 Million Empty Homes: How Urby Rescues the Ruins
1.9 million. That’s how many living quarters are vacant here in Malaysia, nearly 20% of the total, according to the 2020 Census. This puts hard number...
Milk, Money, and Kid-Genius Ideas
What does it really take to bridge the gap between a child’s imagination and a viable business model?
In this episode of Open For Busines...
Halogen's Crypto Moat? 0 to RM400M AUM in 3 Years
Is it possible to reduce an investment portfolio's risk by adding a highly volatile asset like Bitcoin? Halogen Capital Co-Founders Hann Liew and Luca...
Bonus Checks and Bass Lines
What does it take to build a business when the stakes are high and your time is already accounted for?
In this episode of Open For Busin...
When Passion Gets Professional
What does it really take to turn passion into a sustainable business?
In this episode of Open For Business, we sit down with Janice Siew,...
From 2 AM Curry Puffs to Siti Li: 23 Years of F&B Survival
The F&B industry is often romanticised, but for Shareen Ramli, the reality is far grittier. Yet, for 23 years, she has stayed in the game, evolving fr...
From Cargo Drones To Passenger In The Sky
In this episode of Open For Business, we sit down with Dr Shian Lee, the aerospace engineer behind Alphaswift Industries.
This is not a shiny dr...
$176M: How an “Accidental Founder” Built Doctor Anywhere
Founded in 2017 as a simple telemedicine app, Doctor Anywhere (DA) became a pandemic darling, raising nearly $176 million from heavyweights like IHH H...
Old Recipes, New Ambitions: How Hock Kee Kopitiam Is Expanding
How do you turn nostalgia into a scalable business in one of Malaysia’s most crowded food and beverage markets?
On this episode of Open F...
Anti-Coworking, by Design
In this episode of Open For Business, we look at why coworking seems to have lost its way and whether a quieter, more stripped-back model is the answe...