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Business & Economics Podcasts
Hear real-life advice from entrepreneurs and leaders who’ve reached high, done it, and had egg on their face to prove it. “Ramen To Riches” presents a new podcast episode each week with lessons that will edge you closer to your success. Our stories are local, featuring Asia’s best entrepreneurs, idealists and trendsetters, and how they overcame struggles to build brands, movements and companies that impact your daily life. From the moments of sheer melt-your-heart ecstasy to those mornings where you want to curl your sleep-deprived body under a blanket, being an entrepreneur is like nothing you’ve ever experienced before. This podcast is dedicated to telling it how it is. No sugar coating, no nonsense. This is how it is. And it’s all been created for you. But what – apart from the obvious – do you need to do to get there? What happens along the way? And what the hell do you do when it all breaks down? Fear not. We’ve got your back, by providing real-life experiences from real-life people. Not text book theory, not predictable stuff you can find anywhere, but reality – funny, heartbreaking and practical reality.
Location:
Singapore
Description:
Hear real-life advice from entrepreneurs and leaders who’ve reached high, done it, and had egg on their face to prove it. “Ramen To Riches” presents a new podcast episode each week with lessons that will edge you closer to your success. Our stories are local, featuring Asia’s best entrepreneurs, idealists and trendsetters, and how they overcame struggles to build brands, movements and companies that impact your daily life. From the moments of sheer melt-your-heart ecstasy to those mornings where you want to curl your sleep-deprived body under a blanket, being an entrepreneur is like nothing you’ve ever experienced before. This podcast is dedicated to telling it how it is. No sugar coating, no nonsense. This is how it is. And it’s all been created for you. But what – apart from the obvious – do you need to do to get there? What happens along the way? And what the hell do you do when it all breaks down? Fear not. We’ve got your back, by providing real-life experiences from real-life people. Not text book theory, not predictable stuff you can find anywhere, but reality – funny, heartbreaking and practical reality.
Twitter:
@chrischong1989
Language:
English
Contact:
601162463254
Website:
http://www.ramentoriches.com/
Email:
chris@ramentoriches.com
Episodes
Not Today, COVID-19
12/15/2020
Thanks for listening to my first video back since COVID lockdown, video to come to Youtube soon. Special Thanks to: Editing Advisor- Corine Tiah Colour, Studio setup: Rob Chua Makers of Da Vinci Resolve Software Casey Faris Video tutorials helped a lot All the artists involved including: Audio: Think Media […]
Duration:00:03:06
Singaporean PR Raised $55 Million With The Most Innovative Way Of Making Revenue
7/21/2020
Thanks for listening to one of our most popular episodes, click the Play button! In this episode, hear how an Iranian-born Swede, now a Singaporean PR, achieved the near-impossible by raising $55 million dollars for his startup that aims to make buildings more energy-efficient, using technology to save clients money […]
Duration:00:36:17
S2E6: Why A Famous Digital Marketer Quit His Top Corporate Career For Startup Dream
6/14/2020
Thanks for listening to one of our most popular episodes, click the Play button! What would you do with your career if you were the head of your department at one of the world’s best companies? Would you stay or would you go? Would you embark on a risky startup […]
Duration:00:52:24
S2E5 Who We Are: COVID-19 and George Floyd Update
6/8/2020
Thanks for listening, click the Play button! Hey, welcome back to season 2 of ramen to riches. It took me a long time to really think through what is going on right now in the world. If you’ve been following the news, it’s clear the world is in a state […]
Duration:00:14:24
S2E4: INSEAD Grad’s Startup Changes Food Ordering
5/26/2020
Thanks for listening to one of our most popular episodes from Season 1, click the Play button! Ten years ago, ordering food was pretty much a hassle…it was like how you remember it when you were a kid, if you wanted delivery, you’d have to call hours ahead, and only […]
Duration:00:32:47
S2E3: How Coronavirus Has Changed Asian Culture
4/10/2020
Hey, welcome back to season 2 of ramen to riches, I hope that you’re doing alright, with what’s happening now with COVID19, these are hard times, not only to record the podcast, but in every way. This feels like an episode of Black Mirror. Societies, economies and families are on the verge of crumbling. Actually all of 2020 has been pretty bad so far.
Duration:00:13:13
How A Startup Raised USD$2.9M After 4 Years of Struggling. Part 2
3/24/2020
After 4 long years of struggling to build a product that customers actually needed and bought, Aston and his co-founder Zen from Overdrive Singapore slowly raised US 2.9Million but achieved the dream Government-backed investor, and you’ll find out how they did that in this episode.
Duration:00:20:58
S2E2: Why This Startup Tracks 30,000 Sensors Across Singapore. Part 1
3/13/2020
Founded in 2015 by technologists Aston Chia and Zen Chin, Overdrive’s customer portfolio include Sentosa, Nanyang Technological University, Fedex, Ascendas, the Ministry of Manpower in Singapore, and Volkswagen and Mazda in Malaysia via its local IoT partner. They’ve just raised US 2.9Million, find out how in this episode with Aston. Overdrive operates an IOT platform that automates data sensing of various types of assets within a business ecosystem, from vehicles and machinery, to goods and...
Duration:00:19:11
S2E1: Monologue, on persistence and courage
3/1/2020
At the end of season 1, which took 6 months to record and ended with 22 episodes, I just had nothing left to say after that, and that’s why I took a break before making season 2. It’s like when you’re at work, and you have a really good meeting, that feeling after, you’ve said everything you needed to say and also taken in a lot. Here's what I learnt.
Duration:00:09:17
Season 2 Teaser
2/21/2020
Welcome to season 2 of Ramen to Riches. We’re back, 2020, new year, bigger and better, new hopes for the future! This is the teaser. We'll be interviewing entrepreneurs in Singapore on the hardships they had to endure to become successful in their startup or mission.
Duration:00:06:12
Making A TV Show Part 2
4/28/2019
Due To A Surge In Traffic, For An Easier Experience, Listen On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or Podbean. Thanks for joining me for Season 1, this is our Season 1 finale episode. Join us in the coming months for the start of Season 2 (to be announced). We […]
Duration:00:13:02
Making A TV Show Part 1
4/15/2019
Due To A Surge In Traffic, For An Easier Experience, Listen On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or Podbean. Hey, we’re making a TV show about entrepreneurs in Singapore! Or at least we’re trying our best. I’ve partnered up with a Singaporean producer, Ser En Low, to make a […]
Duration:00:10:32
How to Take Your Startup From Ramen to Riches – Interview by Alex Leung
4/7/2019
Chris Chong was just 21 years old when he sold his first startup Beeconomic to Groupon, achieving the entrepreneur’s goal of a million dollar exit.
Duration:00:21:21
Making Millions From Memes: Karl Mak, Co-Founder of SGAG, MGAG and PGAG. Part 2/2
3/31/2019
Welcome back to part 2 of this 2 part series, if you haven’t checked out the first part, then I recommend listening to it first, where we explore the early days of Karl Mak’s journey building SGAG with his co-founder, Adrian. In this part, we discuss building relationships with clients, his future plans for SGAG and the Hepmil Group, and his experience raising SGD$1.3 million in pre-series A funding through angel investors. Introducing Karl Mak, the very intelligent, measured, co-founder of...
Duration:00:26:27
Making Millions From Memes: Karl Mak, Co-Founder of SGAG, MGAG and PGAG. Part 1/2
3/24/2019
Introducing Karl Mak, the very intelligent and well-spoken co-founder of Hepmil Group, best known as the holding company in Singapore of SGAG and other entities, whose content is now seen by over 10 million millennials across the region weekly.He talks about how important data and metrics are in order to discover strategies to create viral content, creating a proper content strategy for something as eclectic as comedy, and working with conservative clients to create buzz around issues that...
Duration:00:34:35
Hey, Change The World You Live In
3/17/2019
At the end of the day, that’s the point about life. It’s whatever you want it to be. It’s whatever lens you choose to see it through. Being average is so contagious it should be labelled by the medical industry as a communicable disease. That means it’s as easy as catching a cold. When you see someone else frown, those muscles around your mouth, they just start to naturally drop into a frown.
Duration:00:12:02
How To Build A Top Digital Media Company: TheSmartLocal Founder Bryan Choo
3/3/2019
Imagine you’re 18 years old, and in your spare time, you hang out with your friends at an internet cafe to play computer games religiously. That’s the childhood that most of the kids from my generation grew up in. We’d spend hours in an internet cafe. But I was never the best at computer games. In fact, I was crushed in nearly every game, even my favourite game, Starcraft. But imagine being the kid who was so good he’d go on to represent your country in computer games. That was Bryan Choo,...
Duration:00:31:29
Groupon to Hard Times: The Darkness Of Early Success. Part 2
2/24/2019
My brother and I had a startup that had just been bought out by Groupon, the world’s biggest daily deal website, for an estimated $24 million according to the Straits Times. We made it on the front page of the national newspaper, I was busy representing Groupon on breakfast TV shows and on Channel NewsAsia, while my brother was busy moving our new offices to Harbourfront Centre. Enjoy part 2 of a 2 part series, don't forget to listen to part 1 first.
Duration:00:25:44
How We Built A $24M Startup: Beeconomic To Groupon. Part 1
2/17/2019
At 20, I took a break from my law degree to co-found my first startup, Beeconomic, which was fully acquired after 6 months by Groupon. As Groupon Singapore co-founder, we created over 200 jobs and made history by helping Groupon become "the fastest growing company ever" (-Forbes and CNBC). After Groupon, I worked on a startup that failed, which taught me important lessons along the way. After finishing my law degree, I joined a "Top 5" law firm in Australia as a legal intern that led to an...
Duration:00:27:11
The F Word: Failure, Can We Talk About It? Part 1 Feat. Elisha Tan from TechLadies and Facebook
2/10/2019
Let’s both be real for a second, let’s talk about failure, small failure, big failure, surprising failure, embarrassing failure. It’s scary, just the sound of the word failure gives me goosebumps, I’ve been through it. Whether you’re scared about the word itself, or you relish in talking about it as much as you can at parties and networking events until your friends say “enough, we get it, you failed”, then you’ll love today’s episode. Elisha Tan is like us, two people, a success and a...
Duration:00:30:35