Can you make a career out of skateboarding? Why, yes you can! Meet Fuad and Munir, the guys behind local deck makers Sibling Skateboards. Yes, KL has it’s own skateboard brand, founded and run by real skateboarders.
Less you think they’re all talk, co-founder Fuad has represented Malaysia in the Asian X Games and is a sponsored rider with several companies. We talk with co-founder Munir to find out why they decided to turn trees into decks for a living. Read more →
What do you get when you cross the Fine Arts and Film Studies? A yearning for learning, apparently.
Meet CultureRun, a service that hopes to make continuous learning easily accessible to the citizens of the Klang Valley. CultureRun is the brainchild of two sisters, Suwen Low and Su-Zen Low. With backgrounds in Fine Arts and Film Studies respectively, they’ve brought their collective heads together to try and bring their love of learning and self-improvement to the masses.
Is the Klang Valley ready for small learning workshops or are we too used to huge, fill-the-convention-hall type of learning? We talk to the entrepreneurial sisters about their yearning for learning, CultureRun.
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Chee Sukeats discovered his passion for skating when he was just 13. Life then intervened and when he graduated he went into advertising. Over the course of 7 years, he wrote copy and managed accounts for various agencies include O&M, a string of boutique agencies and finally, a boutique agency of his own.
Deciding that enough was enough, he decided to go back to his passion for skating and try to make living out of it. We sat down with Sukeats to talk to him on Wheel Love, his skate shop and how he grew his store into what could arguably be the most well-known skate shop in Kuala Lumpur.
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Patrick Lim is an entrepreneur. He’s in love with business, a business geek if you will. He just loves to think about the mechanics of businesses and how they work. With a background in Marketing and an MBA in hand, he seems more suited for large multinationals than a small manufacturing-based startup. In fact he’s been with such illustrious companies such as 3M, BMG and even Apple Malaysia.
Now, he’s given up all that for his urban bag business, Greenroom136. Greenroom136 is Kuala Lumpur’s first messenger-type bag company. We sit down with Patrick to find about more about Greenroom136 and if Kuala Lumpur is the right place to birth an urban bag brand. Read more →
You may not know Wong Joon Ian but if you were at Urbanscapes 2011 or HyppTV Moonlight Movies Night, chances are you may have rested your behind on one of his products. Joon’s been around a bit having written for such prestigious publications like Vogue Paris, the South China Morning Post, China Economic review and yes, even KLue!
Being ever on the move he’s currently working on 2.5 startups, including Paperlounger, the unique seating solution for outdoor events. Having seated our fine behinds on his products twice over the past 6 months, we catch up with Joon to find out more about Paperlounger. Read more →
