Digerati50: Enabling others to do good
Digital News Asia (DNA) keeps a weekly series that profiles the pinnacle 50 influencers, movers and shakers who are helping shape Malaysia’s Digital Economy. These articles are from Digerati50, a special print book launched in January 2014. For facts on customised reprints of Digerati50, e-mail [email protected].
- Entreprenuer with a project to empower social business enterprise and innovative makers
- Best lesson learnt, 'to by no means outsource your imaginative and prescient'
HAKIM Albasrawy can be only 28 years antique, however his modern venture, digital marketing solutions enterprise Tandemic, is his fourth startup.
He were given his first taste of entrepreneurship for the duration of university, putting together a pupil- powered advertising company with some friends.
“Some years later, when I had had my fill of doing communications and branding paintings, I were given into developing packages – some labored and some didn’t; that in the end led me to starting Tandemic,” says the Institute Advertising Communication Training (IACT) graduate.
After graduating with a degree in communications and advertising, Hakim spent a while as an events supervisor at Meeting and Exhibition Planners (MEP) and additionally did a stint as a companion with Internet advertising and marketing organization Urekalabs Sdn Bhd.
He become additionally leader executive officer of Right Ideas Left, some other virtual advertising corporation integrated in 2008 and later rebranded into Tandemic in 2010, where he holds the post of director.
In a nutshell, Tandemic allows build communities and social actions for brands, non-income and authorities organizations.
When requested what his proudest success to date is, Hakim points to developing the employer from a two-man shop to a 30-man crew.
As an employer, Tandemic may be very active inside the Malaysian digital environment and received the Youth-Friendly Company of the Year award at the 2012 Hope Awards, which was held in conjunction with the Youth Social Business Summit in Kuala Lumpur.
Tandemic was recognized for its work on 3 primary projects: Makeweekend, Do Something Good and the Social Innovation Lab.
Makeweekend is a countrywide programme wherein adolescents brainstorm and construct prototypes of solutions to normal problems. The programme has reached over 1,000 children national.
Do Something Good is Malaysia’s volunteering platform, in which almost three,000 teens locate volunteering possibilities and benefit virtual points and badges for taking part.
Social Innovation Lab is an accelerator for social enterprises, imparting software era to assist start up and electricity generation-based totally social enterprises.
These days, the bulk of Hakim’s time
is devoted to developing his cutting-edge challenge, Makespace, a co-operating area in Petaling Jaya. Targeted at creative makers and
marketers, the gap offers various guide services from events and workshops, to get entry to to information through its community.
A vital feature of the space is the availability of a MakerBot Replicator 2, which prints 3-d objects at a a hundred- micron decision. For a price, co-operating citizens and interested creators can use the MakerBot to create anything from jewelry and product samples, to fully functioning mechanical widgets.
Hakim stocks that the first-rate advice he’s ever acquired came from his mom, who advised him “motion is the quality plan,” even as the biggest lesson he’s learnt as an entrepreneur is this: “You can not outsource your vision.”
When requested about his weaknesses, Hakim points to the strength of perception, for while running a startup, you have to agree with that the whole thing will come collectively one way or every other.
“So I assume that having an excessive amount of or too little at any one time is a risky element – my biggest project is to preserve the perception in check. Also, I actually have a younger- looking face, so commonly getting people to look past the advent and into the enjoy and skills takes a few doing,” he adds.
In addition to commercial enterprise as usual, 2014 will even see Hakim and the Tandemic crew being involved with numerous projects aimed at growing the bottom of makers and innovators in Malaysia.