Why Malaysia is a Hot Startup Destination

WHYMALAYSIA

WHY IT IS WORTH GIVING YOUR TIME TO IT

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Who am I:

Community Architect

Building communities of abundance-minded peoplewho want to create a better reality.

Helping entrepreneurs find and be found by amazinggrowth opportunities.

MY CONTRY TOWN BUENOS AIRES KUALA LUMPUR

WHYMALAYSIA

WHYMALAYSIA

WHY IT'S WORTH GIVING YOUR TIME TO IT

01 CREATECONTEXT

"Monte Carmelo is aBrazilian municipalitylocated in the northwestof the state of MinasGerais. Its population asof 2007 was 44,367..."Source: Wikipedia

Find The Right Context: Challenging yourselfFinding YourselfNext: Overcoming (Creating) Your Context

01Keep leveling upLeverage on smarter people every day

02"Buenos Aires is thecapital (...) of Argentina,and the second-largestmetropolitan area inSouth America, afterGreater São Paulo."Source: Wikipedia

ARGENTINA:"WIRE IT"

THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT

"One of the toughest businessclimates on earth" (according to INC.

A Crisis every 10 years: Devaluation,Long-term Inflation

Corruption Ranking: 4th in SouthAmerica

Largest eCommerce in LatAm:MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) andother giants (Globant, OLX)

Kazsek Ventures, the most activeVenture Capital in LatAm

Ruled 99.6% of Top Investments inLatAm from 2009-2014*

*source: TechCrunch, Startups Surge in LatAm

THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT

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ARGENTINA'S TECH SECTOR IN 1996

THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT

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ARGENTINA'S TECH SECTOR IN 2011

THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT

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WHAT THE TECH SCENE WOULD HAVE BEENWITHOUT ENDEAVOR

Overcoming (Creating) Your ContextThe Power of High-Value NetworksNext: The Right Attitude

2"Atalo con Alambre"Make it worth with what you have

03"Kuala Lumpur, is thefederal capital and mostpopulous city inMalaysia."Source: Wikipedia

MALAYSIABOLEH

5 Reasons: the pieces in the ecosystemThe story of a Mountain HikeFinal thought: Boleh

3We got it all.The right mindset to piece it together

WHY MALAYSIAIS HOT

REASONS

AND ONE CHALLENGE

5

1SEASONED FOUNDERS

They already started giving back.Mentoring, Funding, Acquisitions, Inspiration.

2HIGH POTENTIAL

STARTUPSGenerating Jobs, Attracting Investment.

3RAPID GROWTH MARKET

A perfect launchpad for any startup willing toland in Asia.

Growiingpercentage of

banking penetration

AS A LAUNCHPADMALAYSIA

1 2 3 4

50%BOLEH!

145%

High percentage ofinternet and mobile

users

The Economist: "thebest English-

performer in Asia"

Customer is morelikely to try newstuff. iProperty

example.

Online Banking Internet andMobile

English Consumer Culture

4MOMENTUMEveryone is excited.

And it's the result of a long term effort.

5ATTITUDE

Boleh vs. Skepticism

Credit: Skeptical man image via Shutterstock

The Skeptical Phrasebook

Skeptikish

1. Ah but (the government /the weather / the royal family/ or the oil crisis)

2. In Malaysia there are no(talent / good startups /investors / anything good)

3. I know Malaysia betterthan you.

English

1. I really don't have anythingto add, but I want to speak

2. I'm bored. Haven't reallytaken the time to check.

3. I totally lost my point andhave nothing more to say.

"Of course it's hard. It's supposed

to be hard. If it were easy,everybody would do it.

Hard is what makes it great"TOM HANKS IN "A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN"

What Abundance Mindset is about:

Genuinely willing to level up, each day.Embracing failure, learning from it.Helping each other, not just yourself

It is not the critic who counts; not the man whopoints out how the strong man stumbles, orwhere the doer of deeds could have done

them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actuallyin the arena, whose face is marred by dust and

sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; whoerrs, who comes short again and again,

because there is no effort without error andshortcoming;

T H E O D O R E R O O S E V E L T