RH Vision: Taking networking to another level
ANOTHER player gearing up for networking isn’t one you would normally think of, but as a wellknown property coglomerate in the state, it makes sense for RH Vision (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd (RH Vision) to throw its hat into this arena.
RH Vision takes networking to the next level via a series of events known as The Pitch –- an entrepreneur networking party organised together by RH Vision and the Brand Yourself Agency.
With the aim of connecting young entrepreneurs from both East and West Malaysian sides, its first edition was held here in Kuching back in May, and the second one in Penang last week.
During the event, entrepreneurs from different industries network, share and exchange ideas over dinner. This is followed by ‘The Pitch’ – a session to put forward business ideas, plans and how they will market their products to a panel of investors.
After the pitch, the investor panel selects outstanding entrepreneurs and invests with them.
This venture came about after a memorandum of understanding between RH Vision project manager JW Sam, and Brand Yourself Agency founders Datin Winnie Loo and Steve Wee.
“In The Pitch Kuching, we managed to have four businesses pitching for investments and all the business proposals were very attractive,” explained Sam.
The event leverages on RH Vision’s property project called RH Park as its home base.
“Out of the four businesses, two had successfully gotten investments from the panel of investors to grow their businesses.”
The group’s second event in Penang also served to see more young entrepreneurs with great business ideas, plans and product pitching to the panel of investors.
This was in conjunction with the grand opening of Scoopoint in Penang, a co-working space, share offices, networking hub, event space that encourage passion, collaborative and sharing culture.
Meanwhile, RH Vision also participated in the Brand Yourself: People’s Choice Award 2017 as a platinum sponsor. The aim behind this, Sam said, was to associate itself with the awards as it launched onto the international stage which resonates very closely to RH Vision’s core values.
“We have a strong support for China’s Belt Road Initiative that promotes Globalisation and by that extension, networking,” he told BizHive Weekly.
“The awards this time connected global businesses from 10 different countries from South East Asia and Oceania.
“Networking, especially on a global level provides you new insight to solving business problems, inspiration to new ideas and not to forget - potential partnerships that could provide access into untapped markets.
“In everything we do, we as a company believe in challenging the status quo. How do we do that? By Building Projects that Build the People,” he quotes the company’s tagline.
“That is the position we hoped to establish and the People’s Choice Award has fulfilled and reinforced our vision.” Challenging the traditional mindsets
All these new ventures in networking by RH Vision aims to challenge the traditional mindset of classic business.
Take RH Park Cinemas, for example, held in July as another move which brings together members of Kuching’s community.
“RH Park Cinemas embodies the experienced economy -what Harvard Business Review describes as the Fourth Economic Offering,” Sam explained. “We have moved from the classic business model of just extracting commodities, to making Goods; to delivering services and now we are in the phase of staging experiences.
“This is the progression of economic value and also where we currently stand.
“Through experiences such as the RH Park Cinemas, we seek to provide distinct economic offerings to our clients as well as adding business value to the wider Sentosa area.”
RH Park also played host to BNI Sarawak’s Entrepreneurs Networking Night 2017 in June this year. The evening connected business owners and entrepreneurs seeking to expand their connections and position themselves in the community’s limelight.
All this progress, the project director said, hingesagain on the group’s slogan - Building Projects, Building People.
“On the Building Projects front, with the increasing significance of IT and sustainability, we are aiming to achieve Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Status and also Green Building Index (GBI) for our developments,” he detailled.
“Another business update would be establishing RH Park as a Tourism Hub.
“With the rise of tourism and Kuching being a beautiful Jewel of Borneo, we hope to cater for the increasing tourist numbers to our city with unforgettable experiences. Last but not least, we will be launching our new developments in the final quarter of the year.”
On the Building People front, Sam categorised The Pitch as its entrepreneurial platform educating and providing support to SMEs in Sarawak.
“We are also collaborating with FundedbyMe a crowdfunding platform and we are in conversations with Ministry of Industrial & Entrepreneur Development, Trade and Investment Sarawak.
“Our aim is to provide a holistic platform that is able to support SMEs to achieve sustainability. We are not here to assist businesses in starting up, we are here to create an ecosystem of SMEs that support each other.”
“The the Brand Yourself: People’s Choice Awards was launched on the international stage which resonates very closely to our core values.We have a strong support for China’s Belt Road Initiative that promotes Globalisation and by that extension, networking.The awards this time connected global businesses from 10 different countries from South East Asia and Oceania. Networking, especially on a global level provides you new insight to solving business problems, inspiration to new ideas and not to forget – potential partnerships that could provide access into untapped markets.” JW Sam, RH Vision project director