KL'17 Startup Forum gets encouraging response

KUALA LUMPUR: The KL'17 Startup Forum, which brought together 500 technology entrepreneurs, received encouraging response and was still getting visitors even towards the close of the programme, said organiser, Malaysian Technology Development Corp (MTDC).

The forum, which featured several programmes, including session on mentor `speed dating', confessions of entrepreneurs and knowledge mini marathons, was aimed at promoting the use of technology by start-ups through incubation, entrepreneurship and financing programmes.

It was held on October 14, 2017 and was organised in conjunction with the National Innovation and Creative Economy Expo 2017 which was in line with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation's effort to take the technology sector to the next state.

Arsyadul Ibad Ab Karim, 26, one of the `speed dating' mentors working in agricultural business, said the mentoring sessions with entrepreneurs in various fields provided exposure on 'dos' and 'don'ts' about business.

"I learned a lot especially how to launch a start-up, how to struggle from stress to become successful in your business and how to dress up accordingly.

"They taught me how to manage financial especially when it comes to big company," he told Bernama.

He said that advisory services, training guidance and spiritual injection to those who want to venture into entrepreneurship needed to be an important factor to remain in the world.

Meanwhile, one of University Agriculture Malaysia's Molecular and Molecular Biology students attending the 'knowledge mini marathon' programme, Nur Fatjiah Tahir, 21, said it aimed at providing exposure to the business world to the students. — Bernama