S1E11 | Truths about Automating and Growing F&B and Retail businesses in Southeast Asia | Fong Wai Hong

Hard Truths By Vertex

How do you build a business servicing a client base that operates on a fine line between survival and failure? And how do you ensure your business is not just client-churn proof but also emerges resilient towards funding challenges? Find out from Wai Hong, founder of StoreHub.

In This Episode

• (00:55) How StoreHub got started
• (04:25) Hard Truths about F&B and Retail
• (06:43) How they create a scaled marketing and sales process
• (09:55) Early days of Storehub
• (12:18) Meeting his co-founder and CTO
• (14:27) Meeting Vertex
• (15:41) Hard truths about fund-raising
• (18:06) How Vertex is different from many other VCs
• (20:00) Product-Market Fit isn’t a static thing
• (22:15) How StoreHub launched a food delivery business in just 48 hours
• (26:06) Being resilient to funding challenges
• (28:57) Building a pro sports team culture

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Our Guests

Wai Hong Fong is the co-founder of StoreHub, an all-in-one technology platform that offers an ecosystem of solutions ranging from a cloud-based POS system to QR-based table ordering, loyalty, customer engagement, and many more. This platform helps restaurants and retailers throughout Southeast Asia automate and grow their businesses.

He also built OZhut, an Australian multi-niche online retailer, before creating StoreHub. In 2011, while running OZHut, he was recognized as Melbourne's "Top 100 Most Influential People" by The Age Newspaper and Australia's "Best Young Entrepreneur" by StartupSmart.

Wai Hong describes himself as an accidental entrepreneur, a geek, a foodie, and a gamer for life. He is passionate about creating profitable, purpose-driven businesses and believes that the methods used to do so should be characterized by honesty, modesty, and generosity.

Links

• Show notes and full transcript for the episode

Your Host

Elise Tan is the Director of Communications and Community at Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India. Prior to joining Vertex, she had extensive experience in investor relations and partnerships at global venture funds and accelerators with more than $100m in AUM. Elise also currently runs a Southeast Asia-based startup community of nearly 800 entrepreneurs called the Asia Startup network and actively supports their startup journey through panels, meet-ups, and mentoring programs.
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