Hosted by blankk_ CEO and growth consultant, Annette Osmeña, Raised on Rice is a podcast putting the spotlight on high-growth, digital-facing startups in Asia. We want to give listeners insights on how different marketing, data, and product teams are working together to “hack” their way towards sustainable growth. RICE stands for Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Ease - four key criteria several companies use to prioritise growth experiments.
How is Eskwelabs democratising the future of work in the Philippines through data skills education? How do they help individuals start a new career and help corporations upskill their employees? What is it that makes Eskwelabs more customised and effective than MOOCs?
How did Angela go from a career in finance to becoming a social impact entrepreneur? What does it mean to be a social impact leader? This and more in this episode of Raised on Rice with Angela Chen, the co-founder and CEO of Eskwelabs.
24 Oct 2021
EP 06 | Growing Future Fresh with Derya Tanghe
How does indoor farming work and how is it different from traditional farming? What are the benefits and challenges of growing produce indoors?
Learn from Future Fresh’s co-founder and CMO, Derya Tanghe, about their growth journey and his own personal journey from the fashion industry, to finance and consulting, to.. farming? All of this and more about how Future Fresh started and is growing to provide fresh, locally grown produce in the Philippines with no pesticides, no soil, no harmful fertilizers, and with 90% less water than traditional farms in this week’s episode.
Check them out at: futurefresh.ph
19 Jan 2021
EP 05 | Growing Taxumo with EJ & Ginger Arboleda
Why do people hate filing their taxes? How is Taxumo educating and helping entrepreneurs and SMEs? How are they helping to digitalise such a tedious, manual process? How did they grow to become the number one online filing platform for the self-employed and small business owners?
EJ & Ginger Arboleda share what they've learned, how they've grown, and how they used feedback, testing, and reiteration to turn one of Ginger's challenges as an entrepreneur into a fast-growing business venture.
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Loved this episode? Have more questions? Write me at ao@blankk.agency
4 Jan 2021
EP 04 | How Kumu is Changing the Media and Entertainment Industry with Angelo Mendez
Filipino livestreaming app, Kumu, has been topping the charts on the Apple and Google Play stores. In just 2 years, they've grown into a community of millions of active users including biggest brands and artists in the media and entertainment industry. Through creating a virtual gifting economy, Kumu gave users a way to support each other to become Financially Successful Creators. They've revolutionised social TV through gameshows and an interactive season of Pinoy Big Brother. What's next? Sending someone to space?
Loved this episode? Have any questions? Send me an email at ao@blankk.agency
28 Dec 2020
EP 03 | Growing AllCare with Cindy Burdette
21 Million people in the Philippines belong to the "informal work economy", meaning they're not professionally employed. 98% of total registered business in the country are considered micro- or small-to-medium-sized enterprises. How did AllCare build a benefits membership for this huge underserved market, when few people believed in them? How did they use what they learned from customers to optimize their sales & marketing to grow almost 10X this year?
Cindy Burdette, CEO and co-founder of AllCare, tells us about how they overcame their early stage struggles and used a scientific approach to scale their platform and gain experience, respect, and a big user base.
Loved this episode? Have any questions? Write me an email at ao@blankk.agency
19 Dec 2020
EP 02 | Growing Brankas with Todd Schweitzer
How has Brankas changed financial services in Indonesia, the Philippines, and now Thailand? Why and how do they manage a distributed team who've been working remotely in different countries since before the pandemic? How did they create FOMO and convince banks to adopt new technologies and set up better digital banking infrastructure?
Todd Scheweitzer, CEO and co-founder of Brankas, dives deep into the challenges and opportunities of the banking and fintech industry in Southeast Asia. He shares some insights into his company's success: building a screen scraper to demonstrate demand, working closely with regulators, educating and partnering with banks, and generating interest by setting a new standard for how we complete transactions.
12 Dec 2020
EP 01 | Growing AIDE with Paolo Bugayong
How is AIDE changing the healthcare industry in the Philippines? How did they find product-market fit and attract a critical mass of Filipino patients and doctors onto their platform? How do they structure their team to achieve cost-efficient growth? What growth tactics worked for them?
In this episode, Paolo Bugayong shares details about how AIDE leveraged data and qualitative feedback to build great product and customer experience, which propelled them to become the leading home healthcare app in the Philippines.
Check them out at aide-app.com
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