KUMUDA to connect Startup operators in Penang with CEOs of industry
Posted by KUMUDA on Thursday, October 7, 2010
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Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ignite Your Startup Tour with Seattle’s Inspiration to be kicked off in Penang on Oct 18, and continue nationwide to three other Malaysian cities.
Penang, 1 October 2010
For the first time in Southeast Asia, Startup Weekend-inspired workshops will be held to inspire, guide and teach as many as 360 existing or would-be entrepreneurs in a span of 10 days starting October 19th until October 28th.
Leading these one to three-day workshops in four-cities tour throughout Peninsular Malaysia, dubbed the "Ignite Your Startup Tour" -- starting in Penang Island in the north, and ending Johor Bahru at the southern tip with Kuala Lumpur & Kota Bharu in between, will be Mr Marc Nager, one of the directors of Seattle, USA based Startup Weekend. Mr Nager has personally advised and helped create hundreds of new startup ventures in just the last year alone, and thus will be instrumental to help spark the startup business movements in Malaysia. Globally, Startup Weekend has helped educate over 15,000 entrepreneurs and launched over 560 new startup ventures with over 36% of the Startup Weekend Startups continue to run after three months.
"One of the missions of Startup Day event is to gather 80 like-minded individuals with new startup ideas in each city, and connect each individual with at least one potential partner or co-founder as well as to match each individual or group formed from this meeting with at least one potential mentor, ideally, from related industry. We call this activity the 'Co-Founder Dating'!", said Nasir Sobri, Chairman of Koperasi Usahawan Muda Pulau Pinang Berhad (KUMUDA), one of the State Partners for the tour.
He pointed out that Malaysians need to actively encourage and support startup culture among the youths, or even among those currently working in either government or private sectors to improve overall economic composition of, or contributory elements to the nation’s productivity, particularly in cities, towns and villages outside Klang Valley.
Nasir introduced KUMUDA as ‘a one-year old startup co-op from rural Balik Pulau’ and said, “We are honoured to be given a chance to co-organize this first leg of Ignite Your Startup Tour and, together with Startup Day Penang’s main sponsor, the North Corridor Implementation Agency (NCIA – KORIDOR UTARA), we proudly chose George Town as the host city so that the participants, mentors and co-organizers from outside Penang can also enjoy what this UNESCO-gazette World Heritage site can offer.”
Ignite Your Startup Tour is presented by Global Entrepreneurship Sdn Bhd, a campaign management company of Warisan Global Sdn Bhd -- a ten-year old company that specialises in community projects with social focus.
Dhaksinamoorthy “Dash” Balakrishnan, Chief Executive Office of Warisan Global, who had represented Malaysia at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington DC earlier this year, and whose company has been hosting the worldwide-run Global Entrepreneurship Week campaign in Malaysia since 2008 and will host Startup Weekend event in Kuala Lumpur, noted that “The Ignite Your Startup Tour will be a signature activity of the Global Entrepreneurship Week Malaysia 2010, scheduled to be held in dozens of cities & towns throughout Malaysia on 8-14 NOVEMBER 2010.”
Dash continued, “Ignite Your Startup Tour is inspired from Seattle, USA originated Startup Weekend event that has been held in over 80 cities around the world, inspire over 16,000 entrepreneurs, and launch over 700 new startup ventures. This is an event you cannot afford to miss!”
Startup Day workshops will be held in Penang (Sunway Hotel George Town, Oct 18-19), Kelantan (Dewan Keusahawanan Terbuka, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Oct 26-27) and Johor (Persada International Convention Centre, Oct 28) and the three-day Startup Weekend will be held in Kuala Lumpur (Plug & Play Technology Garden, Oct 22-24).
In Penang, YBhg Dato’ Redza Rafiq Abdul Razak, Chief Executive of KORIDOR UTARA is scheduled to deliver a welcome speech to as many as a hundred Penang-based entrepreneurs at the pre-Day networking evening.
It is targeted by the organising teams that at least ten new startups will immediately emerge from each city that Ignite Your Startup Tour stops.
Overall Ignite Your Startup programme is supported by the United States of America Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and MSC Malaysia, with overall winner from the tour to be offered a trip to California, USA for one week to learn from startup companies in Silicon Valley.
More information for interested individuals who wish to become participants or potential mentors for the new startups that would emerge from Startup Day in Penang can be obtained via http://startupday.pp.my or by contacting KUMUDA Secretariat at 04-866-2706 (M-F 9a-5p), 04-866-0098 (Sun-Fri, 2-10p), 010-547-4044 (Ms. Atiqah) or email to startupp@kumuda.org
KUMUDA also facilitates a Facebook event page t http:// facebook.com/event.php?eid=118292004893168 and welcomes supporters to become fans of the Ignite Your Startup Tour at http://facebook.com/startuptour. Twitter users may follow @startupweekend or tag #startupp to connect with other participants.
To learn more about the highly popular Startup Weekend event, refer http://startupweekend.org
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Issued by: Koperasi Usahawan Muda Pulau Pinang Bhd (KUMUDA)
Media Contact:
Nur Atiqah Mohd Suhaimi
General Manager
Koperasi Usahawan Muda Pulau Pinang Bhd
d/a Pusat Internet Desa
Bangunan Pejabat Pos Malaysia Bhd
11000 BALIK PULAU, PP
Tel/Fax: 04-866-2706 (M-F 9:15a – 5:30p) / 04-866-0098 (Sun-Fri 2p-10p)
Mobile: +60 10-547-4044
Email: atiqah@kumuda.org
In Penang, Startup Day is organized by Koperasi Usahawan Muda Pulau Pinang Bhd (KUMUDA - Penang Young Entrepreneurs Co-operative) and is sponsored by the Northern Corridor Implementation Agency (NCIA) - http://kumuda.org (Cik Atiqah, En. Hadi or En. Nasir - 04-866-2706 / 04-866-0098 / startupp@kumuda.org)
In Kelantan, Startup Day is organized by Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK). http://umk.edu.my (Pn. Wan Tik - wantik@umk.edu.my - 019-983-4219 )
In Johor, Startup Day is organized by the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA). http://www.irda.gov.my (En. Ridzuan - ridzuan@irda.com.my)
In Kuala Lumpur, Startup Weekend is organized by Global Entrepreneurship Sdn Bhd and will be hosted by Plug & Play. http://warisanglobal.com (Ms. Vivian - vivian@gewmalaysia.com - 012-307-0658)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
KUMUDA invites industry to connect with 80 startup entrepreneurs in George Town
Ignite Your Startup Tour with Seattle’s Inspiration to be kicked off in Penang on Oct 18, and continue nationwide to three other Malaysian cities.
Penang, 1 October 2010
For the first time in Southeast Asia, Startup Weekend-inspired workshops will be held to inspire, guide and teach as many as 360 existing or would-be entrepreneurs in a span of 10 days starting October 19th until October 28th.
Leading these one to three-day workshops in four-cities tour throughout Peninsular Malaysia, dubbed the "Ignite Your Startup Tour" -- starting in Penang Island in the north, and ending Johor Bahru at the southern tip with Kuala Lumpur & Kota Bharu in between, will be Mr Marc Nager, one of the directors of Seattle, USA based Startup Weekend. Mr Nager has personally advised and helped create hundreds of new startup ventures in just the last year alone, and thus will be instrumental to help spark the startup business movements in Malaysia. Globally, Startup Weekend has helped educate over 15,000 entrepreneurs and launched over 560 new startup ventures with over 36% of the Startup Weekend Startups continue to run after three months.
"One of the missions of Startup Day event is to gather 80 like-minded individuals with new startup ideas in each city, and connect each individual with at least one potential partner or co-founder as well as to match each individual or group formed from this meeting with at least one potential mentor, ideally, from related industry. We call this activity the 'Co-Founder Dating'!", said Nasir Sobri, Chairman of Koperasi Usahawan Muda Pulau Pinang Berhad (KUMUDA), one of the State Partners for the tour.
He pointed out that Malaysians need to actively encourage and support startup culture among the youths, or even among those currently working in either government or private sectors to improve overall economic composition of, or contributory elements to the nation’s productivity, particularly in cities, towns and villages outside Klang Valley.
Nasir introduced KUMUDA as ‘a one-year old startup co-op from rural Balik Pulau’ and said, “We are honoured to be given a chance to co-organize this first leg of Ignite Your Startup Tour and, together with Startup Day Penang’s main sponsor, the North Corridor Implementation Agency (NCIA – KORIDOR UTARA), we proudly chose George Town as the host city so that the participants, mentors and co-organizers from outside Penang can also enjoy what this UNESCO-gazette World Heritage site can offer.”
Ignite Your Startup Tour is presented by Global Entrepreneurship Sdn Bhd, a campaign management company of Warisan Global Sdn Bhd -- a ten-year old company that specialises in community projects with social focus.
Dhaksinamoorthy “Dash” Balakrishnan, Chief Executive Office of Warisan Global, who had represented Malaysia at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington DC earlier this year, and whose company has been hosting the worldwide-run Global Entrepreneurship Week campaign in Malaysia since 2008 and will host Startup Weekend event in Kuala Lumpur, noted that “The Ignite Your Startup Tour will be a signature activity of the Global Entrepreneurship Week Malaysia 2010, scheduled to be held in dozens of cities & towns throughout Malaysia on 8-14 NOVEMBER 2010.”
Dash continued, “Ignite Your Startup Tour is inspired from Seattle, USA originated Startup Weekend event that has been held in over 80 cities around the world, inspire over 16,000 entrepreneurs, and launch over 700 new startup ventures. This is an event you cannot afford to miss!”
Startup Day workshops will be held in Penang (Sunway Hotel George Town, Oct 18-19), Kelantan (Dewan Keusahawanan Terbuka, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Oct 26-27) and Johor (Persada International Convention Centre, Oct 28) and the three-day Startup Weekend will be held in Kuala Lumpur (Plug & Play Technology Garden, Oct 22-24).
In Penang, YBhg Dato’ Redza Rafiq Abdul Razak, Chief Executive of KORIDOR UTARA is scheduled to deliver a welcome speech to as many as a hundred Penang-based entrepreneurs at the pre-Day networking evening.
It is targeted by the organising teams that at least ten new startups will immediately emerge from each city that Ignite Your Startup Tour stops.
Overall Ignite Your Startup programme is supported by the United States of America Embassy in Kuala Lumpur and MSC Malaysia, with overall winner from the tour to be offered a trip to California, USA for one week to learn from startup companies in Silicon Valley.
More information for interested individuals who wish to become participants or potential mentors for the new startups that would emerge from Startup Day in Penang can be obtained via http://startupday.pp.my or by contacting KUMUDA Secretariat at 04-866-2706 (M-F 9a-5p), 04-866-0098 (Sun-Fri, 2-10p), 010-547-4044 (Ms. Atiqah) or email to startupp@kumuda.org
KUMUDA also facilitates a Facebook event page t http:// facebook.com/event.php?eid=118292004893168 and welcomes supporters to become fans of the Ignite Your Startup Tour at http://facebook.com/startuptour. Twitter users may follow @startupweekend or tag #startupp to connect with other participants.
To learn more about the highly popular Startup Weekend event, refer http://startupweekend.org
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Issued by: Koperasi Usahawan Muda Pulau Pinang Bhd (KUMUDA)
Media Contact:
Nur Atiqah Mohd Suhaimi
General Manager
Koperasi Usahawan Muda Pulau Pinang Bhd
d/a Pusat Internet Desa
Bangunan Pejabat Pos Malaysia Bhd
11000 BALIK PULAU, PP
Tel/Fax: 04-866-2706 (M-F 9:15a – 5:30p) / 04-866-0098 (Sun-Fri 2p-10p)
Mobile: +60 10-547-4044
Email: atiqah@kumuda.org
In Penang, Startup Day is organized by Koperasi Usahawan Muda Pulau Pinang Bhd (KUMUDA - Penang Young Entrepreneurs Co-operative) and is sponsored by the Northern Corridor Implementation Agency (NCIA) - http://kumuda.org (Cik Atiqah, En. Hadi or En. Nasir - 04-866-2706 / 04-866-0098 / startupp@kumuda.org)
In Kelantan, Startup Day is organized by Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK). http://umk.edu.my (Pn. Wan Tik - wantik@umk.edu.my - 019-983-4219 )
In Johor, Startup Day is organized by the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA). http://www.irda.gov.my (En. Ridzuan - ridzuan@irda.com.my)
In Kuala Lumpur, Startup Weekend is organized by Global Entrepreneurship Sdn Bhd and will be hosted by Plug & Play. http://warisanglobal.com (Ms. Vivian - vivian@gewmalaysia.com - 012-307-0658)
Startup Day Penang - KUMUDA Press Release 1oct10
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