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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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Why Investors Just Put RM10M Into This Malaysian Accounting School
Founded in 2020, TYMBA Education Group entered the market to address low pass rates and limited access to accounting qualifications outside major citi...
Inside Malaysia's Multi-Million Ringgit Preschool Empire
The Ministry of Education recently updated its guidelines to allow optional Standard 1 enrolment for six-year-olds. While this policy provides familie...
Putting the Yellow School Bus in Your Pocket
Every single day, millions of students step onto a school bus and embark on what is largely an "invisible journey." For the hour they are on the road,...
The ROI of the Skyline: 14 Years of The Marini’s Group
The Kuala Lumpur F&B industry can be brutal. Most trendy dining spots survive for two or three years before becoming obsolete. Yet, 14 years on, The M...
I Dreamt of Washing Shoes (And It Made Me 5 Figures)
Gurcharanvir Singh built his company because he had a dream about washing shoes.
Three years later, Guchi Cuci is a highly profitable, 5-...
The PropTech Rebellion: How MyRumahBaru is Changing Real Estate
For years, the Malaysian property market has been dominated by a legacy "discovery-only" portal model. Real estate agents are forced to pay RM3,000 to...
The FMCG Playbook: How Fukuro Scaled to RM14M Without VC Funding
Fukuro Malaysia was founded in 2019 to fill the "missing middle" in the kitchenware market. Co-founders Daryl Lai and Kevin Lau recognised that local...
Preserving Amachi's Legacy One Appam At A Time
Amachi’s Palagaram is a brand dedicated entirely to preserving traditional Indian sweets and savories. What began as a heartfelt weekend project opera...
Polar Cold: The Agritech Startup Rebuilding Urban Refrigeration
In Southeast Asia, nearly 40% of food is wasted before it ever reaches the consumer. Much of this spoilage happens in the "last mile"—the chaotic jour...
Life After VC: How BloomThis Scaled to 8 Figures Solo
In 2023, after years of utilising seed and VC funding to scale their operations, BloomThis co-founders Penny Choo and Giden Lim executed a rare strate...
Menopause Asia: No, It’s Not Just Burnout
Perimenopause is rarely discussed in boardrooms, yet it causes 1 in 4 women to consider leaving the workforce — often at the absolute peak of their ca...
Inside the Revival of Mum’s Place
For decades, Mum’s Place was an institutional dining destination in Petaling Jaya, famous for its comforting, Peranakan-influenced Malaysian dishes. W...
The Messy Middle: Bootstrapping Cuura to 7 Figures
The local Malaysian beauty industry is dominated by aggressive marketing, promising consumers "flawless skin in 3 days" and chasing the latest viral T...
Can AI Save Malaysia’s Overstretched Hospitals?
Healthcare systems globally are buckling under the weight of administrative tasks. In Malaysia, where the doctor-to-patient ratio hovers around 1:450,...
The Ecosystem Play: Why Gelatomania Is Building More Than Just Outlets
Most F&B founders measure success by the number of retail outlets they open. But Christine Tham and Leong Hoo Yin quickly realised that relying solely...
Unstaffed And Profitable: Inside Malaysia’s Pre-Loved Book Empire
Is it possible to run a highly profitable retail business in premium shopping malls by selling products for just RM5 on the honour system?
The 8-Figure K-BBQ Empire: How Gu On Hacked The F&B Growth Curve
Gu On is not your average Korean BBQ joint. Launched in July 2023, the brand specialises in traditional Korean smoked meats, rich bone broths, and mod...
The Science Of Waste: How Bina BioX Is Replacing Plastic With Coffee And Mushrooms
Sustainability is often treated as a corporate branding exercise, but in reality, it is a deeply operational, systems-level problem. Replacing plastic...
The Sticky Business Of Scaling: From Pasar Malam To 7-Figure Corporate Gifting
Malaysia is sitting on a goldmine of natural biodiversity, yet local functional foods often suffer from a massive "trust deficit" due to adulterated p...
The Business Of Play: How Litt Tak Built A 41-Year Toy Empire
Since 1985, Litt Tak has been the silent engine behind Malaysia’s toy industry. As the official distributor for global giants like Bandai, Takara Tomy...
How Dáo Desserts Took Tau Fu Fah To The Cafe Scene
For decades, tau fu fah and soy milk were largely considered traditional Chinese street food, but as dessert cafes booming with bubble tea, bingsu, an...
Monetising Intimacy: How Construct KL Turned A Balcony Into A Business
In a city overflowing with cafes and brunch spots, how does a home-cooked pancake on a balcony become one of KL's most talked-about dining experiences...
Randy’s Laundromat: Elevating The Malaysian Laundromat Experience
For most Malaysians, a trip to the local laundromat means sitting in a stuffy room staring at a phone while a machine spins. But what if you could tur...
Marketing The MICE Industry: Why General Marketing Fails B2B Events
When the pandemic decimated the events industry in 2020, Melissa and Ethan found themselves retrenched. With just RM500 and no grand ambitions, they b...
How To Sell Canopies On TikTok: Joo East’s RM1.6M Hustle
For over two decades, Joo East has been the silent architect behind Malaysia’s vibrant pasar malam and street food scene. Founded in Kuantan by a form...
The Policy & The Pitch: Scaling Angsana Health
In January 2026, Series A digital health company Angsana Health executed a strategic move - they acquired MiyaHealth's subsidiaries and its Managed Ca...
How A Marketing Veteran Turned A "Lonely Mall" Massage Shop Into A 6-Figure Brand
Two years ago, DS Willie Tan left a 20-year career in media advertising to take over Master Ee, an ageing reflexology shop located in a notoriously qu...
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...