Why Startups Fail (Malaysia Edition)
Topic: Why Startups Fail (Malaysia Edition)
Date: 8 March 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (GMT +08)
Format: Hybrid (Physical Event & Webinar)
Address: Menara HLX, Level 6, No 3, Jalan Kia Peng, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
What is it about?
Let's not peddle theories and clichés, but distil the very lessons of every startup journey. This event will tell it like it is - the good, the bad, and the ugly. The million-dollar question is, why do so many startups fail?
Called ‘Valley of Death for a reason, fewer than one in 10 startups survive to achieve any kind of scale and success! That is why, happening on Tuesday, join Dash, Ruban, Paddy, and Shelby to discuss why many startups fail – Malaysian Edition. During this event, you’ll be able to:
Identify the most common mistakes being made – and find out how you can avoid them when starting your business in and outside Malaysia.
Explore the challenges and opportunities that most Malaysian startups encounter and how startups tactically engage with them.
Consider the nuts and bolts of everything you need to know about funding, scaling, and expanding!
Who should attend
New entrepreneurs who want to venture into the world of startups and existing entrepreneurs who want to prevent failures
Startup founders who are interested in learning more about the Southeast Asian market and entering it
Entrepreneurs and startups in Malaysia looking for guidance on raising funds, or even beyond numbers
Moderator & Speakers
Shelby Tee (Moderator)
Managing Partner of BlackStorm Consulting
LinkedIn
Based in Singapore, Shelby is always keen to explore new things, and nothing excites her more than a new challenge. Her expertise lies in corporate and product marketing, project management, business operations, and crisis management.
Having witnessed the impact of business misalignment in tasks, units, and teams, she has a keen understanding of the importance of strategising internally by developing formalised frameworks to sync up the process and people. Her experience can help you identify the relevant stakeholders to form a continuous connection through the appropriate strategy. Shelby is also the Editor-In-Chief of the Why Startups Fail Newsletter brought to you by BlackStorm Consulting.
Rubaneswaran S T (Speaker)
CEO of Beyond4
LinkedIn
S T Rubaneswaran is the CEO of BEYOND4, a tech ecosystem that enables Talent Acceleration in 5 key areas of digital nation-building, which are the Skills Accelerator, Career Accelerator, Education Accelerator, Innovation Accelerator, and Start-up Accelerator. Ruban is about market expansion, building ecosystems, and accelerating scalable startups via talent identification and acceleration.
Paddy Tan (Speaker)
Managing Partner of BlackStorm Consulting
LinkedIn
A business and technical strategist armed with more than 15 years of experience in helping businesses to propel to a greater height. Being both a serial entrepreneur and investor, Paddy can dissect a challenge into pieces and formulate solutions from various perspectives.
Dash Dhakshinamoorthy (Speaker)
Founder of StartUp Malaysia
LinkedIn
Dash helps first-time and early-stage entrepreneurs learn and master what they need to know and do to get started. He was one of the earliest fire-starters in Malaysia's entrepreneurship and startup ecosystem and the Asia Pacific region. He was responsible for making entrepreneurship cool! Dash is simply in a class by himself.
He kick-started the culture of "it's ok to fail by trying" and planted the seed in many young people that startups are just hypothesis testing machines. Taught hundreds of changemakers in Asia Pacific about venture creation and led several entrepreneurship programs at universities, he now helps many reinvent themselves and also launch new ventures.