Startups need to look beyond IT

Serba Dinamik group managing director and group chief executive director Datuk Dr Mohd Abdul Karim Abdullah has called for a change of mindset among startups, urging them to look beyond information technology (IT) as their preferred business choice.He said it has become common to associate startups with IT due to the mushrooming of new companies in the sector following the success of unicorns such as e-hailing company Grab, and e-commerce giants such as Lazada and Shopee.

“Sometimes people wrongly interpret that when it is a startup, it has to be related to IT but it is not necessarily that way. It can be a new technology related to maintenance, ” he told Bernama in an interview recently.