11 Presentation Tips for Success
You have to communicate the goals of your enterprise and rally your employees around them, and the most effective way to that is still the spoken word. - @EricSchurenberg [click to tweet] Last week I have lunch with @Sumartok , he’s the founder of @Presentonomics , a company that helps people with their presentation. I see...
Entrepreneur Story
So what is your definition of success? It’s really hard to measure. A lot of journalists would ask me about how much my companies make. And of course I’m not comfortable in answering that. But they need numbers to sell in their media. Apparently people still need that to be motivated. So they’d keep pushing...
The Dancing Leader
2 people in the photo above are working for me. In my company, they usually do admin tasks, routine stuff every single day. But I understand that they also have their own passions. One love singing & music – want to become a star, and the other has passion in movie making. So, yesterday I...
Spirit from Regional Entrepreneurship Summit 2011
The Regional Entrepreneurship Summit talks about entrepreneurship, but it’s really talk about dreams -Hillary Clinton Lucky me to be invited to Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI) – Regional Entrepreneurship Summit (RES) in Grand Hyatt, Bali from 22 – 24 July 2011 represent #StartupLokal. In Bali I was staying and spend time with the amazing girls...
Have Idea? Can’t Execute? Find a Technical co-Founder!
I heard this a lot from people who want to start their own digital startup: ”Ollie, I have ideas, but I can’t do programming. I can’t execute my ideas!” The answer is simple: collaborate! Find a technical co-founder. Where to find them? Go to networking events for IT people. One of them is #StartupLokal meetup...
Tips on Effective Delegation
The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t. -Anthea Turner Saya adalah salah satu orang yang menggemari pendelegasian tugas. Sebabnya? Saya tidak ingin terjebak dalam pengerjaan ‘pritilan’ operasional yang akhirnya membuat saya tidak punya waktu untuk menjalankan tugas saya sesungguhnya dalam menjadi pemimpin yaitu maintaining vision, networking...
Retired Before 35
“What do you mean retired? Do you really really wanted to retired… NOT WORKING at all… before 35?” That’s my friend’s reaction when I told him that my goal is to retired before 35. What I meant about ‘retired’ is the joy of financial freedom. That I no longer HAVE TO work in order to...
Tips Sukses a la Ollie
Mata saya tiba-tiba menekuri sebuah piagam yang diberikan setelah saya memberikan seminar di sebuah event. Piagam itu ditujukan kepada saya, Aulia Halimatussadiah, sebagai Wanita Wirausaha Sukses. Saya jadi berpikir, apa itu sukses? Apa tolak ukurnya? Bagi saya pribadi, sukses itu saat kita sudah bisa memberi dan berbagi ke lebih banyak orang. Saat bisnis atau apapun...
Women & Technology
Seperti yang sudah saya sampaikan di postingan sebelumnya, yang paling penting untuk memulai bisnis adalah action. Tapi saya perhatikan, banyak dari kita yang kesulitan memulai karena terlalu banyak berpikir hal-hal yang susah. Yang paling sering saya dengar adalah: “Saya pengen bikin bisnis online seperti mbak, tapi saya gaptek banget!” Saya pikir, ini hanya masalah kemauan...
How to Start a Startup
When I start building my first startup in 2006, online book store Kutukutubuku.com, I don’t have anything in mind. All I know, I want to work surrounded by books. And that can only happened if I make my own book store. After years, a friend on twitter @penq , ask me some tips on successfuly...
My Style of 4-Hour Work Week
Been eye-ing this book: The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris for quite some time. The concept of working only 4 hour every week really make me curious. It’s basically living like a millionaire. So, yesterday, I read reviews about the book and I took several conclusions. Delegate. Automate. I’m an entrepreneur who manage several startups....
Learning from Ireland
With the rate of unemployment rising every year in Indonesia, that eventually will create more social & economical issues, now we have to focus on starting our own company and absorbing more human resources. The famous Indonesian Donald Trump, Ciputra, said right now Indonesia only has 400,000 entrepreneurs out of 250 million population. That’s less...
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