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The absence of radical openness and liberal culture to encourage startups.
Radical openness and liberal culture common in the West is the hidden background factor that pushes people to think creatively and pursuit their ideas. Normal and casual discussions in cafe or classroom can spontaneously turn into a startup idea.
Of course, equipped with their advantages of having more talents (coders, capitals etc.), they can turn that idea into actual product more easily.
These are the important but often-ignored things that are rare in Malaysia.
Of course, equipped with their advantages of having more talents (coders, capitals etc.), they can turn that idea into actual product more easily.
These are the important but often-ignored things that are rare in Malaysia.
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Hmm... maybe we should just get inclusiveness. But, with your base at Cyberjaya, we at KL, such a long long way.
In my opinion, the "KL to Cyberjaya is too far" mentality will not help. We go where there is value.
Openness and liberal, unless we have "Glasnost", or else the same mentality will always exist in the mass. *SIGH*
while such stereotypical tropes are still peddled by event managers to liberate government of taxpayer funds, what we'd truly need is a liberation of the system. an opening of ideas not controlled by a select elite, promulgated by media which is non myopic nor continued by cloistered views which inhibit.
i'd support a Malaysian Burning Man with my own funds, done the same way as Burning Man. provided the same event managers aren't the primary financial beneficiaries.
As a space, unfortunately, I can't do anything about it - we were "gifted" the 110K sqft in Cyberjaya and trying to make the best out of it. But we'll have arms & legs around KL, PJ, Penang etc because MaGIC isn't just about Cyberjaya. Although to make up for it, our space will be available to qualified teams at a much cheaper rate than that elsewhere! And we're providing shuttles.
Haha, I totally agree on the last part!
arms and legs are critical, but they shouldn't be overused nor over comitted. we all have 24 hours in a physics given day. the notion of physical space is valuable but I do remember liberalization of that, as a team effort (note the lack of creative capitalization) seems to indicate.
let's discuss the last part. ;)
also by arms & legs, I have a strategy for this... would love to bounce it off you! i do believe in space to gather a community, and community is what i find lacking in existing co-working spaces, which is arguably one of the most important building blocks of a healthy ecosystem.