Welcome to Generation Upstart
It starts with an idea — a fusion of thoughts and experiences, a blending of desires and dreams. Bursts of electricity fueled with faith, love and creativity leap across synapses generating the necessary expression to give it real form and substance. Sometimes, an entrepreneur’s call…
ITCB: For the Love of the Craft
The Thai beer market, controlled by very few players is ripe for disruption , and Khun Tak (Achiravas Vanasrisawasd) is looking to single-handedly make this happen. A long time innovator in the alcohol industry, he has helped launch many new craft beer brands for his…
BabooNuts – Be Positive, Be Thankful
The image of brown-skinned Indians walking along the roadside carrying a basket of nuts – a Baboo selling nuts – is one of the oldest derogatory and prejudicial representations of a hard-working immigrant class in Thailand. What Jane Tawntida Komalsingsakul has managed to do is…
Careerlist: Never Waste a Crisis
According to Michael Scissons, the most important thing you can do to maximize your chance of entrepreneurial success is to build your tribe. Start as early as possible, trimming and pruning like a patient gardener, while continuing to add value to the network. For these…
Benetone Films: How to Thrive on Change
It is often said that success is opportunity meeting preparedness, and while brothers Rachvin and Kulthep were totally unprepared for the opportunity that came knocking loudly on their door, they answered the call by working their backsides off, riding that opportunity wave all the way…
Sunshine Market: How we turned Passion into Success
According to Premchit and her sister Prem, passion is everything. Motivated by love for their business and for the people they work with, they’ve managed to grow Sunshine Market into one of the best-known names in the organic health food space in Thailand. Connected to…
RingZero: On Employee Satisfaction and Success
Great people make the great teams that make the great workplaces, and Mr. Asmat Yousri is a big believer in people. After all, he has been at this since 1996. An ex-banker, he saw no obstacles transitioning from a corporate position to an entrepreneur. In…
Slumber Party: How To Be Unstoppable
Slumber Party is probably the best known name among Hostels in Thailand. Started in Ao Nang, Krabi in 2012, It now has branches in Bangkok, Koh Phangan, Phuket, Lombok and Bali with many more on the way. While “Adventure hard and Party harder” is its…
Potato Corner: How to Achieve Exponential Growth
In 2016, Mr. Chayapatra Thongcharoen or Pong for short, brought a relatively unknown food franchise to Thailand and after tweaking it to suit the local market, he rapidly grew it to 44 branches all over the country. An amazing feat by any standard for the…
Oriental Rubber: How I created a successful Trading Company
Suharsh Mittal is the epitome of a self-made person. His journey has taken him from India to Africa to the UK, before finally settling in Thailand where after a stint as a professional, he took the plunge into entrepreneurship right before the biggest financial crisis…
Little Birds : On Finding Delight
May we just put it out there that Tew Bunnag is a renaissance man? T’ai chi and Chi Kung master, Meditation teacher, Author, Humanitarian, Linguist, Economist, Family man, and not necessarily in that order. He also works in the field of Death and Dying, shining…
Mantec Consultants : How to unlock Value
Peter Drucker, the father of modern management is one of Arvinder Singh Brara’s heroes. But are concepts like Corporate Social Responsibility, Workforce Development and Organizational Culture relics of the past with no place in today’s rapidly changing work environment? Is Management Theory irrelevant in the…
Pavni : How I created a Unique Fashion Business
The fashion industry, glamorous as it may seem to outsiders is actually a highly competitive, tough and challenging business. Thriving in such an environment demands excellence, authenticity and an intuitive understanding of that sweet spot between quality and price. Enter Pavni. Not afraid of being…
Ticketmelon : How to build an Iconic Brand
Striking the right chord in the marketplace is about luck and timing.But It is also about kinetic energy and strong work ethic, confidence and determination, laser sharp focus and being in sync with trends, all traits that Panupong has in abundance.Event attendees and Organizers today…
Kokotel : How to Scale Efficiently
Rei Matsuda, the soft spoken CEO of Newlegacy Hospitality, is a man with big dreams. He wants to open a thousand Kokotels, his unique hotel concept, in South East Asia. Not far out at all when you realize that he has managed to open 3…