v7.0 – Re-Educate

Posted by joshua on Nov 5, 2010 in Meetups | 0 comments

Sponsored by AHA & Nokia(as we have stated in the previous post that Nokia is sponsoring #StartupLokal for the whole year) we present you #StartupLokal meetup v7.0 – Re-Educate.

It was an interesting yet it might seems a boring topic for the night especially if we got into the real education, but eventually it was a great topic to be discussed in this meetup.

The meetup was opened by Rakhmat Junaidi from AHA, PT. Bakrie Telecom Director.

The next session, first speaker of the night is Lingga Wardhana from TechnoPreneur. Lingga said that developed country is being looked not only from the economic factors but also how much entrepreneurs are in the country?

It is useless to have a great graduation percentage if all of the graduates chose to work for people instead of being an entrepreneur. He also pointed out that there should be an entrepreneurship mentoring in the academic syllabus.

He also pointed out these things:

• Learn from the expert. Learning from the expert is important, don’t be too proud of what we got right now. The mentoring process for entrepreneurship should’ve been one of the credits in the universities, so while we can improve the graduates, we can also improve the entrepreneurs themselves.

• Watch-Copy-Modification. Copy/clone creatively, and then change it according to market needs, after that make something unique from it. Everything doesn’t have to start from the bottom, with learning from the expert we can watch their masterpiece and we can make the clone from it and change it according to the market needs. There’s a lot of story that the followers/clones is more successful than its predecessor.
• Encourage yourself for global competition. To compete in a competition can teach us a lot of things, from planning, team work, discipline. Especially if you won a global competition, we can get exposure, experience that will definitely be worth the hard work.
• University as a trigger for technopreneur. Universities in Indonesia should be the incubator of technopreneurship, because if we see, every year there is always a new discovery/research. Research can be a journal, final test or even daily homeworks. Yet the realization from the research is little to none, with a right mentoring process, there’s a big opportunity and potential out of it.
• Being valuable for investor. Increase your value in investors’ eyes, from technical quality, products quantity, social quality or even popularity.

Another speaker, Andi Sjarief explaining about SITTI, and how SITTI is going to compete with Google in digital advertising. Andi also explained how SITTI outplaying Google here on their home. The presentation itself is unique and easy-going so it’s not boring.

Panelists for the night are Andi S. Boediman from Mojopia and Chandra Marsono, with the moderator Bernardus Sumartok. Sarah Lacy from TechCrunch was going to speak as a panelist too but because of one thing and another she couldn’t be there.

The panelist session is very interesting because both of Chandra and Andi shared their experience in the startup scene and they gave warnings & advices. Some great points of this session are:

• Choose money or popularity, it’s hard to choose both.
• Startup owners should think about the funding, don’t just do it without preparation
• Don’t let startup be your main income and not doing anything while you’re building your startup.
• Startup should be profitable from day one.
• Don’t focus only on online revenue, instead make Web only as a media and get the revenue from offline.
• Advertising revenue model is not big
• Serving big clients with serving them with our services is more profitable than only from online advertising.
• Make access to the market & media exposure
• BRAND is better than BRAIN
• Indonesia is sexy, the world’s eyes is into Indonesia.
• You don’t need to be a programmer to start a startup.
• Associate your product with foreign stuff. Indonesian prefer English attributes.

There’s actually more to it than this article you can visit HadiGunawan’s blog for the video. See you at the #StartupLokal meetup v8.0!

Credits: TeknoJurnal

joshua

Joshua Kevin is passionate about tech startups, entrepreneurship and social media. Currently he is actively involved in Indonesia startup scene as Associate of #StartupLokal community, Associate at East Ventures and also a writer for Penn Olson. In pursuing his passion in Entrepreneurship, Joshua hopes to see more and more start-ups, not only the presence but also the success story.

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