In early June 2014, we planned a new event on 28th June and invited a manager from Cradle Fund as main speaker to share how to get the RM150,000 grant for startups. We also invited a few other speakers from MGVD, The Nest and Capital.com.my.
However, due to unforeseen circumstance, the speaker from Cradle Fund could not make it for the event this time. We then arranged him to speak in another event on 12th July, and changed this event to be Pitch-Ur-Passion #4 organized by Better World Makers Network and hosted by Wadud Mughal.
The event was organized on 28th June 2014 in a co-working space called The Nest. The session attracted only a small group. A number of presenters and speakers were also not around.
Wadud started the session explaining his vision of eradicating poverty in the world, and how his network of social entrepreneurs might help.
Eric Lim, Wayne Khor and Jeson Lee presented their startup idea for 3 minutes each, followed by taking questions from the group. The 18-year old Jeson Lee was voted as the pitch winner of the day thanks to his interesting sharing as the youngest member in the group.
The only speaker available in the event was William Tan from angel investor network CAPITAL.com.my. William became the main speaker and share with us on the angel investing scene and how to make our pitches more convincing before the investors.
William Tan spoke on angel investing
Our founder Ricky Soo also raised the potential startup culture issue in Malaysia, as discussed in length in the earlier event just one day before this event. Time was limited but he managed to raise some questions to reflect on and touched some people in the crowd later.
Thanks to the small group of around 12 people, we were able to go deep into some issues raised such as eradicating poverty by building enterprises. The session ended with networking. Some stayed back to chat in The Nest even for another 2 hours.
Pitch-Ur-Passion #4 – Photo album
