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- Get Your Hands Dirty in Your Early DaysEvery entrepreneur wants to turn their business into a scalable business. It means creating a great product that serves a lot of people’s needs in the world. Hence, it is very challenging to create a scalable business without building a product that people love. We have to get customer’s preferences in order to grow and ...Read more...
- Learning Experiences from Airbnb : from the Darkest to the Brightest Outstanding Success during Covid EraTravel industry is one of industries that got the hardest hit during the covid era. Many travel companies reported huge drops in their revenue. Some companies also have to permanently stop their operations. Airbnb is one of the companies in the travel industry that got a big punch in their face because of covid. They were ...Read more...
- Unescapable ChallangeIn your entrepreneur journey have you ever faced a problem that makes you really sad and hopeless? Our chest feels burned and our steps feel wobbled. We experienced many sleepless nights wondering countless problems in our business. We are afraid to get out of our bed and to walk into the office to meet our ...Read more...
- Fight Using the Small Conscience We BelieveLast week I was quite surprised to hear the news about the IPO of Bumble. Bumble is a dating application that puts women to make their first move. Wolfe Herd; the CEO of Bumble, became the youngest self-made woman billionaire in the world after the IPO. She made a warm celebration by carrying her baby ...Read more...
- More than WinningOne of the important aspects in business that becomes a big challenge for entrepreneurs is competition. We see competitors as big enemies that have to be defeated. In a talk show Nadiem Makarim told the story of how he saw his competitor; Grab. Nadiem respected his competitor very much because Gojek could not push themselves ...Read more...
- The Victim vs The PlayerBeing a leader is not only about structural position, but also about responsibility to build cooperating team along with productive work ethic in it. It needs mutual respect and support for each of the members in the company. Yet that would be rather challenging when we see our team members blaming each other, especially when ...Read more...
- Navigating Your Current Stage Using Traction ModelIn my previous writing we already know that building a big business dream needs certain stages throughout the journey ahead. The stages are going to help us in breaking down particular milestones we have to achieve. Building an IDR 1 trillion Company would be more measurable when we split the target into some smaller targets ...Read more...
- Menjadi Manajer dengan Output TinggiDulu ketika ada yang bertanya bagaimanakah tipe manajemen saya dalam mengatur organisasi, saya selalu jawab dengan kalimat: Tipe manajerial saya adalah dengan keteladanan. Saya cukup puas dengan jawaban itu, namun nyatanya dalam kondisi riil tidak cukup hanya dengan keteladanan untuk membuat performa tim kita optimal. Saya menemukan jawaban yang memuaskan ketika membaca buku Andrew Grove berjudul ...Read more...
- Setting Up Minimum Success CriteriaEvery entrepreneur has their own big dream when they start their business. Either they want their business to be a unicorn (business valuation’s reach more than USD 1 billion) or a Phoenix (a business that can survive for hundred years). Therefore, entrepreneurs have difficulties in breaking down their big dream into certain concrete-measurable targets. Hanging our ...Read more...
- Membangun Produk Pain Killer atau Sekedar Vitamin?Ada sebuah pandangan di kalangan founder startup yang dijadikan pedoman ketika ingin mencari sebuah ide bisnis yang potensial: Buatlah sebuah produk Pain-killer, alih-alih hanya vitamin. Pain-killer adalah sebuah produk yang dapat menyelesaikan permasalahan penting serta harus diselesaikan secepatnya. Ketika tidak terselesaikan maka orang tersebut menempatkan dirinya pada resiko. Sedangkan vitamin adalah istilah untuk produk “nice-to-have“. Ketika ...Read more...