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Thank you for visiting our blog in 2025, and continue to do so in 2026

We would continue to offer interesting innovation topics in 2026. At the same time, we will include photos and interludes from our urban orchard.

The rose apple trees are going to bear more fruits, as well as our rambutan trees. We also have planted several more dragon plants.

In appreciation of our blog vistitors, we are extending a free ebook, “Getting Funding for Your firm”, which we published in 2010. We believe the contents are still relevant today.

The contents of the ebook are as follows:

Title: Securing Private Equity in Malaysia: Capital for your firm without going to your bank managers.

Chapter 1: The Private Equity Industry

Chapter 2: How Malaysian Private Equity Managers Make Investment Decisions

Chapter 3: Are You Ready for Private Equity Investment?

Chapter 4: Knowing the Worth of Your Company

Chapter 5: Grant Money for the Lucky Few

Chapter 6: Angel Investors and Other Sources of Capital

Chapter 7: Post Investment Marriage

Chapter 8: Sharing Rewards Through Exits

Chapter 9: The Case Against Private Equity

Chapter 10: Private Equity and National Development

SAMPLE OF A BUSINESS VALUATION REPORT

APPENDICES- Appendix 1: The entrepreneur’s due diligence business information kit for private equity proposal. Appendix 2: Guideline for a commercialisation plan. Appendix 3: Major Malaysian Private Equity Firms. Appendix 4: Government organizations providing “grant schemes”. Appendix 5: Government development finance Institutions. The language of private equity. Bibliography. Index.

Download the ebook here.

Yours sincerely,

Dato’ Dr Anuar Md Nor,

Founder, Bison Consulting since 2000

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eBook Promotions

For the next two weeks, until 31st, December 2018, we are offering our books at promotion price.

Price is now only RM10.00 or US$2.00


Price is now only RM50.00 or US$10.00

Payment can be made via direct bank transfer. Please email us for your order at datodranuar@gmail.com or phone at 6016 3220 952. 

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Free eBook for Entrepreneurs: Increase Your Chance of Securing Fund from Investors

In 2010, we published a book, Securing Private Equity in Malaysia, as a guide for entrepreneurs on how to raise money from investors. We believe the book is still relevant today as it was in 2010.

In line with the forthcoming giving season, we want to make the ebook of the publication free to visitors of our website until December 31st, 2018.

Download the ebook by clicking below.

ebook Securing private equity in Malaysia

Yours sincerely,

Dato’ Dr Anuar Md Nor,

Founder/President, Bison Consulting

 

 

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About Dato’ Dr Anuar Md Nor

Dato’ Dr Anuar Md Nor is a specialist in the area of innovation management, venture capital and business networks as strategic resources. He teaches these subjects at Azman Hashim  International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is also Adjunct Professor at the the School of Management, Asia e University, Malaysia.

He founded Bison Consulting, a consulting firm that offers services such as intellectual property valuation, firm valuation, grant application and “halal” certification application.He has authored three books, Securing Private Equity in Malaysia, The Palm Oil Multinationals from Malaysia, and The Role of Networks in Internationalization Process. 

He has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Birmingham, England, an MBA from School of Management, University of Bradford, England, an MSc. in Management of Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. He completed his PhD in Business Management from Universiti  Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Malaysia.

Before establishing Bison Consulting, he was CEO of PNB Equity Resources Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Permodalan Nasional Berhad, the largest investment company in Malaysia and CEO of Malaysian Technology Development Corporation Sdn Bhd, the venture capital company owned by Malaysian government. During his tenure, he had invested in high technology companies in Silicon Valley, USA.

Dato’ Dr Anuar Md Nor lives with his wife, Datin Azimah, in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It is a commuter town about one hour drive to Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. He tends his garden plot planting several fruit trees, while his wife tends her orchid plants. Our four children work in Kuala Lumpur. Our second son is a famous artist with sculptures installed in London and Singapore, having graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, USA,  and Central Saint Martins, London, UK. Our daughter graduated from the Australian National University, Canberra. Our eldest son manages his own design company while our youngest son works as a securities trader in a Malaysian Investment Bank.

We share our home with seven cats, namely, Junior, Baby, Yen, Charlie, Malaya, Tuya and Momo, and they like to be fed with boiled sardines.