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What to Ask to Mentors: How to Nurture Critical Thinking
At the ‘Empowering Women through Entrepreneurship’ seminar by US Embassy, one of 3 inspiring speakers, Svida Alisjahbana @svidss said, Indonesia has no mentoring culture, we’re not used to asking questions, the thing that is really needed when you’re meeting face to face with the important people that could be the mentor for your success. And I thought, wow… why I haven’t think of that. I just back from 9 days trip to Discover Bahrain, and I met a lot of important Bahraini people from a lot of sectors that can give me useful knowledge and insights to bring home. But when it’s time to ask questions, I rarely have anything to…
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Hooked! – Designing Growth & Creating User Habit for Startup Success
Last week I attend 2 days workshop by 2 brilliant guy, Nir Eyal @NirEyal and Sangeet Paul @Sanguit by @atamerica– it was JP @JPEllis, the co-founder of award winning app Harpoen, who notify and remind us about this event. Nir Eyal is a lecturer from Stanford Graduate School of Business and has been writing for Forbes, Techcrunch and Psychology Today. The last one actually what makes me very interested to know more about Nir’s insights. Because the theories in psychology are important and applicable to understand our users. Nir offered Hooked! Concept on how to make customer get ‘hooked’ to your startup product by understanding 4 elements: What internal and external triggers…
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Start Your Own Social Enterprise
“In 100 years, we will not be known for our technological advances; rather we will be known for how we used technology to tackle some of humanity’s biggest challenges.” ~ Adnan Mahmud, Co-Founder Jolkona.org I had the privilege to attend @AdnanMahmud session at @atamerica when he was visiting Indonesia last week. In a way, I felt that I always wanted to use technology to create a high impact solution for problems in society. And I think Adnan and I are sharing the same vision. I co-found NulisBuku.com 2 years ago to help young writers in Indonesia express themselves thru Self-Publishing. Right now we had more than 20,000 aspiring writers on our website…
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Indonesia: The Next IT Hub
“The center (of Asia) is not China nor India. It’s Indonesia,“ Cristophe Thomson said on our own conversation at @StartupLokal 2nd Anniversary event co-host with @e27sg Singapore for Echelon Jakarta Satellite. You can read more about his opinion on his upcoming book: Jakarta! – published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama and will be launched soon. Inside the room, panelists are discussing on how to make Indonesia as the next IT hub, how to be the next Sillicon Valley. But Phil Whickham, CEO of the Society of Kauffman Fellows, said: Don’t try to become Sillicon Valley! Sillicon Valley is unique. Indonesia should be Indonesia. We must know what we can build, what makes our ecosystem…
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Welcoming Mark Wang of GEPI
Last night we welcome Mark Wang, Executive Director of GEPI (Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia) to Jakarta. I like him a lot. His body language is very open, vibrant and energetic. He’s enthusiast and clearly passionate on what he’s doing. He’d listen carefully for everything I said and give positive feedbacks the whole time. This is how people should be. And I am very optimistic for GEPI to make a greater change with him onboard. Phil said to me, “His English is very good.” – It’s clear to me that Mark’s an American. How come Phil didn’t know that. He’s American, he should’ve sense it :)) I finally asked Mark, and…
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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 from WomenPreneur Indonesia community @womenpreneurind. From them, I see a whole new world of offline business, and from me they see a whole new world of online business (digital startup), so we kind of amazed by one another I want to share you several points that caught my attention in RES event. I was very…
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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 that we run every month. Info of our next events would be in http://startuplokal.org and twitter @startuplokal stay tune! Here are points from http://startupgenome.cc/ Solo founders take 3.6x longer to reach scale stage compared to a founding team of 2 and they are 2.3x less likely to pivot. Business-heavy founding teams are 6.2x more likely to…
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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 starting a startup. So let me analyze my own experience and show you how to start a startup. Passion For me, passion always come first. It’s cliche, but you must have a soul in your startup. Or else, it will be just another product. Before I launch Kutukutubuku.com, I already write my first book, and my…
