![How Fadza Anuar & Vivy Yusof Built a MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR Brand Fresh From University]()
March 14, 2022
#modestfashion #muslimah #ecommerce #fashionvalet
How FashionValet’s Fadza Anuar & Vivy Yusof Built a MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR Brand Fresh From University: Challenges, Work-Life Balance and Parenting
This is the story of how a young couple from Malaysia built a multimillion-dollar modest-fashion global brand named FashionValet fresh out of university with no business experience whatsoever.
CONTENTS
03:11 - How It All Started
07:25 - Building a Brand From Zero
11:25 - Profitable From Day One!!
13:15 - Scaling Up
15:10 - Fundraising
15:55 - Early Mistakes in Advertising
18:39 - Digital Marketing
20:37 - Websites, Packing, Delivery, Logistics and Returns!
24:00 - Social Media’s Good and Bad Sides
26:43 - Advice For Handling A Social Media Presence
30:19 - Don’t Use Your Own Name in the Brand!
32:09 - Husband-Wife in Life and in Business Too
38:05 - Parenting While Working
41:54 - Staying Creative
44:09 - Size of Global Modest Fashion Market
46:03 - Exporting the Formula Internationally
47:52 - Industry Metrics Fadza Is Watching
50:23 - Sustainability
53:26 - Local Fashion Ecosystem
54:26 - Sustainable Fabrics: Comfortable?
55:23 - Sustainability’s Role in Valuation
57:12 - What’s Next? Handing Over the Reins
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![Dr. Lee Hwok-Aun - Inequality’s Iniquities, In Malaysia and Elsewhere]()
February 17, 2022
#Inequality #NEP #Competitiveness
Dr. Lee Hwok-Aun - Inequality’s Iniquities, In Malaysia and Elsewhere
Dr. Lee Hwok-Aun is the author of “Affirmative Action in Malaysia and South Africa: Preference for Parity”, published in 2021 by Routledge and of numerous articles, in academic and media publications, on affirmative action, inequality, discrimination, social protection, labour and education.
He is a Senior Fellow and Co-coordinator of the Malaysia Studies Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, and a PhD holder in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Inequality forms a key tenet of his work, a subject on which he has studied and written academic papers on since the early 90s.
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CONTENTS:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:56 - Inequality in South Africa versus Malaysia: The Differences
00:08:19 - The Main Flaws in the Malaysian System of Preferential Policies
00:18:04 - The Political Catch-22 of Ever-Popular Preferential Policies Vs Their (Necessary) Dismantling
00:23:20 - One Cannot Feed Four
00:28:10 - Whether Templates for Equality Exist In Scandinavia
00:32:10 - And What of China and Thailand? And the ASEAN Experience?
00:39:58 - And Yet, Inequality is Shrinking in ASEAN. Why?
00:46:20 - Malaysia’s Next Decade: Does Inequality Shrink or Expand?
00:57:38 - Should Policy Resemble Evolution i.e. where Only the Strong Survive?
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At ISEAS: https://www.iseas.edu.sg/about-us/researchers/lee-hwok-aun/
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![Yinson Holdings’ CY Lim: The Energy Services Unicorn]()
February 1, 2022
Yinson Holdings’ CY Lim: The Energy Services Unicorn
In this, the first of six Do More episodes powered by Endeavour Malaysia and CGS-CIMB for the inaugural ‘Thoughts Inspire’ series, CY Lim, the 37-year-old Group CEO of oil and gas services giant Yinson Holdings talks to Khoo Hsu Chuang about the journey that propelled the family controlled logistics firm into the second-largest Floating Production Storage and Offloading - FPSO - company in the world.
Exemplified by the 100x increase in market value between 2010 and 2022 to its current RM6.5 billion, CY shares the management secrets, lessons and trials of building a truly global business from a purely domestic one in just 11 short years beginning when he took the reins when he was just 25 years old.
CONTENTS
00:02:38 - The Early Years: Getting His Father’s Buy-In To Enter a New Business: Oil and Gas
00:05:41 - Challenges of Getting Funding In a Capital-Intensive Industry
00:07:28 - Winning The Regionalisation Game, Starting in Vietnam
00:09:23 - Making Mistakes And Learning From Them
00:12:15 - What Do Demanding MNCs and National Oil Companies Seek?
00:14:24 - The Importance of a Strong track Record When Doing Global Business
00:16:22 - How To Get The Right Financial Metrics
00:18:40 - How To Keep The Right People When the Industry Is Extremely Volatile
00:20:41 - Some Useful Tricks For the Aspiring Entrepreneur
00:22:36 - How To Manage Demanding Investors
00:24:54 - How Did Yinson Move So Fast?
00:29:46 - How To Deal With Uncertain Political Developments Here and Abroad
00:32:27 - How to Strategise and Plan for a Fossil Fuel-Free Future
00:36:18 - Advice For Sustainability Conscious Entrepreneurs
00:38:19 - Can Yinson Grow Another 100x?
00:40:24 - How To Maintain The Same Energy and Drive in the Next Decade?
00:42:43 - What Will Yinson Look Like in 2032?
00:44:51 - Does LUCK Play A Role in Business?
00:46:51 - Can You Make Your Own Luck?
00:49:03 - What Attributes Does The Successful Entrepreneur Have
00:51:15 - Can One Person Drive An Entire Organisation Forward?
00:52:28 - What Should Entrepreneurs Do About Messy Local Politics?
00:55:37 - The Succession Dilemma
00:57:23 - Common Traits In High-Performing Managers
01:01:05 - Can Yinson Be Malaysia’s First Global Behemoth?
01:03:52 - What Goals Should Success and Ambition Be Based On?
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