Asian Business Owners - A.B.O.

What's the role of Data in the decision-making process? How to collect Data, keep it and use it? To what extent can we rely on it? How to balance it with what we call our "gut feeling"? EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Spend less on accounting, payroll and business secretary and get a $500 discount. Read more below. In this special episode, listen to a Panel Discussion with Florian Gaudel, founder of Standard Ins...

Have you ever bought a preowned item? It's a sustainable way of consuming. EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Spend less on accounting, payroll and business secretary and get a $500 discount. Read more below. How has the image of shopping second-hand evolved over the years? What about the specificities of the Hong Kong market towards sustainability? These are some of the questions we discussed with Sarah Fung, foun...

You work in Marketing, Comms or Technology in APAC or Middle East? Maybe MCG Talent helped you find your job. EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Spend less on accounting, payroll and business secretary and get a $500 discount. Read more below. I sat down with Adam Michael Toctan, co-founder of this award-winning recruitment agency and we chatted about the evolution of the power dynamics between candidates and compa...

Do you know that Asia is responsible for nearly half of the world's food waste? An appalling reality that Carla Martinesi, founder of the award-winning food-saving app CHOMP, shared with me. EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Spend less on accounting, payroll and business secretary and get a $500 discount. Read more below. Carla started tackling Hong Kong's food waste problem in 2021. She tells me the lessons she l...

You think about investing in real estate but you don't where to start and what to keep in mind? EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Spend less on accounting, payroll and business secretary and get a $500 discount. Read more below. That's where Sebastien Salin can help you. He founded Acheter pour Louer, a real estate investment company for people based in Hong Kong looking to invest in France (and now also in Bali)....

What's a sustainable business? What elements do you include in the measure of sustainability? EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Spend less on accounting, payroll and business secretary and get a $500 discount. Read more below. This is what I discussed with Chris Brown, founder of ReThink, a sustainable business conference held in Hong Kong every year that gathers business leaders and sustainability practitioners....

For this episode, I sat down with Alain Ngalani, 5 times Muay Thai and Kickboxing world champion and owner of Impakt, an MMA club he founded 20 years ago in Hong Kong. EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Spend less on accounting, payroll and business secretary and get a $500 discount. Read more below. Alain is one of a kind and he shared about his impressive athletic career, how it gives him a different approach to...

In this new episode, I had the chance to have a conversation with Delphine, co-founder of OnTheList, a members-only flash sales company that partners with retail brands and distributors to turn old inventory into exclusive sales. EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Spend less on accounting, payroll and business secretary and get a $500 discount. Read more below. Founded in 2016, OnTheList is a success story that sta...

What do you know about augmented reality? In this episode, deep dive into a fascinating virtual world. Nils transmits his passion and determination to make digital devices understand the real world with spatial computing- no worries you'll understand everything even if you're not a tech person. We talked about what he's trying to achieve with Auki Labs, how his company grew from to 2 to 60 people...

Selene Xie is what she calls a "mumtrepreneur". She's a mother of two and the founder of The Rebel Mums, a clothing brand that celebrates motherhood by providing mums with fashionable clothes and by starting a new conversation around motherhood through a community of mums who share their story freely. Selene shares why she decided to launch her own business in the middle of Covid while she was pre...

Celine Herren and Amit Oz, two food lovers, founded Conspiracy Chocolate in 2018, a Hong Kong-based company that offers a range of chocolate, handcrafted from the bean to the bar, that stands out with distinctive flavours. Celine and Amit share their love for food - a mean for them to bring together people from different cultures. They go back through their journey as entrepreneurs, how they learn...

Meet Estelle, a French entrepreneur based in Hong Kong who founded Anhao Wellness, two Pilates studios that are also a school to train Pilates teachers. Estelle tells about her journey as an entrepreneur, her passion for gymnastic as a kid, her career switch from banking to Pilates professional and her vision to carry out the growth and future of her business. To find out more: Anhao website - htt...

This week, learn from Mandy's business story, how she switched from a PR role to learning everything about branding and building her own creative agency 'EQ'. With Mandy we talked about mental health, business values and finding one's own pace, reflections that led her to create a second business to help entrepreneurs: The Aligned Entrepreneurs. To find out more: EQ website - https://www.eq-intern...

Find out more about Alexandra's journey to create two businesses: Monogic , a marketing agency specialised in F&B and Engagemnt , an app for food influencers and bloggers. We talked about her background, what led her to be an entrepreneur, how she started in the F&B industry, what it's like to work with her partner and how they manage their team and shape the vision and future of the agenc...

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