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My name is Ollie and this is my blog. I'm a writer, startups founder & community organizer, one of them is #StartupLokal. Email me: auliah5 [at] gmail [dot] com
My 2012 Resolutions

My 2012 Resolutions

Let’s start by reviewing 2011. 2011 is a wild year. One of the best years in my 28 years of life. Although I’m not fully achieving my 2011 goals, but I’m not disappointed, as I have achieved something else that could be equally or more useful. I don’t do very...
Weekend Getaway: MesaStila Spa

Weekend Getaway: MesaStila Spa

I’ve been working very hard in the past 11 months and I think I needed to reward myself with a spa getaway. I’ve been a spa and massage addict, and once every time I want, I  spend my time enjoying spa grander than usual. Spa, for me, is more than...
Korea Winter Trip

Korea Winter Trip

My assistant @navikaanggun  is crazy about Korea. Setiap kali ada kesempatan, dia akan menceritakan semua hal yang berbau Korea terutama drama Korea. Maka saat Korean Tourism Organization mengundang saya untuk Winter Trip di Korea selama seminggu, ada 2 orang yang terperangah: saya dan Vika. For me, it was unexpected offer,...
ON|OFF 2011 - Ideas Meet Opportunities

ON|OFF 2011 – Ideas Meet Opportunities

It’s been a long journey. Early May 2011, Ong & Hanny come to me and asked me to be the Chairwoman of Pesta Blogger 2011 or we call it now ON|OFF 2011. I was overwhelmed (still is). It’s been a BIG event since 2007. I don’t know if I can...
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On Regional Workshop - the Dynamics of Women in ICT sector in ASEAN member states

On Regional Workshop – the Dynamics of Women in ICT sector in ASEAN member states

I was invited by Ibu Betty Alisjahbana from Mastel to a regional event held in Jakarta about women and technology – or the right phrase is: Women in ICT, along with other delegations from all over ASEAN countries. It’s of course something that has been on my area of interest. Ibu Mari Elka, Indonesia’s Minister...
The Signs

The Signs

I believe in life signs and nothing in this world is a coincidence. Sometimes I believe it too much that my friend @b4nch4 would say, “You’re the only person I know that would buy gadgets by seeing signs!” :)) By believing in that, I become a calmer individual. Bad things that happened won’t pissed me...
Success = Less Sleep?

Success = Less Sleep?

I was introduced to someone at an event. My friend would introduced me as writer and entrepreneur. And I got this comment about my sleep. “Wow! You must have less sleep!” I thought it was true. But then I make a fun research on how much sleep I have per day. (Not much research, only...
Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire

Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire

Eid Holiday is officially over! Now, we’re preparing for the busy routine and I think this book by Mireille Guiliano: Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire (you can buy this book from Amazon via Kutukutubuku.com by emailing admin at kutukutubuku.com) is one of the best to read in these times. It’s like a...
Entrepreneur Story

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...

ON | OFF Chat 2011: Solo – Using Social Media for Education

Solo is our first city for ON | OFF Chat 2011 supported by @akbersolo  & @usembassyjkt . ON | OFF Chat is a pre-event part of ON | OFF 2011 that will go to 10 cities all around Indonesia to do workshops & promote the use of social media to empower positive activities. We would...

ONline Movement OFFline Impact

I’ve been blogging since 2003. I really think that it’s one of my ‘lucky’ moment when I decided to ‘move forward’ with blog writing. It’s been a long way from 2003, my blogging style has evolved. From a diary type of writing to journal of reactions and now to expertise blogging, where I focus on...

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...

Wanted: A Stylish Car

Setahun terakhir ini penampilan saya berubah menjadi cukup modis. Tapi mobil saya tetap tidak berubah. Sebuah family car yang culun. Supir saya saja pernah berkomentar, “Bu, mobilnya udah nggak sesuai dengan penampilan.” :)) *dem* Akhirnya pas Indonesia International Motor Show 2011 (IIMS), saya sempatkan mampir untuk survey kecil-kecilan, termasuk cari tahu soal harga dan test-drive....

Peter Pezaris & Multiply

It’s an honor for me to meet Peter Pezaris, the founder and CEO of Multiply.com, also David Hersh, Chief Product Officer and Daniel Tumiwa, Country Manager Indonesia, at Multiply.com office warming event. A little bit about Multiply quoted from their website: From its origins as a place to share photos, videos and more with people...

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...