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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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1968 episodis
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...
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,...