Karya yang Berarti, Hikmah yang Dibagi, Manfaat yang Abadi
Kodak pernah menjadi salah satu perusahaan paling besar dan paling profitable di dunia. Kesuksesan mereka dimotori oleh kemampuan mereka untuk memberikan layanan terintegrasi ke konsumennya, dari pembuatan film, device kamera, hingga teknologi printing fotonya. Namun kejayaan Kodak memudar sejak fotografi digital mulai marak dan mendisrupsi pasar, hingga akhirnya mereka bangkrut di tahun 2012. Prototype kamera … Read more
Saya sejak kuliah termasuk orang yang banyak membanggakan kebiasaan tidur sedikit. Menjadikan parameter sedikitnya tidur sebagai asosiasi dari produktif. Dulu rata2 di kampus cuma tidur di 4-5 jam sehari. Sekarang agak bertambah sih rata2 di 5-6 jam, tapi tetap saja masih cukup sedikit dibanding ajuran idel 8 jam sehari. Pandangan saya tentang tidur mulai terbuka … Read more
Kebanyakan orang dapat dengan mudah menarik kesimpulan dari kejadian di sekelilingnya. Dasarnya bisa dari pengalaman, data yang diketahui, ataupun pola berulang yang bisa dilihat. Tapi tidak semua kesimpulan yang kita buat dan yakini itu benar. Hal ini karena bahan penyusun kesimpulan itu sendiri terbatas dan bikin kesimpulan kita jadi keliru. Di dalam bukunya berjudul Thinking, … Read more
Suasana malam hari ini terasa kelam di hati, mendapat kabar guru saya, Dr. Arief Munandar meninggal dunia. Beliau adalah sosok yang sangat berpengaruh dalam perjalanan mendewasa saya. Sedari masih mahasiswa saat berkenalan dengan beliau di RK begitu banyak dapat pelajaran, terinspirasi dari value, ilmu, dan teladan beliau. Belum cukup kebersamaan selama setahun lebih di asrama … Read more
Every 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
In one of my trips, I heard a story from podcast about Halodoc founder; Jonathan Sudartha. He talked the story about his life before building Halodoc. He found a problem about lack of access to medical doctors in Indonesia when he started to learn about his family giant business before inherit it. Born in a … Read more
Travel 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 … Read more
In 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
Last 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
One 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
Being 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
Awal Januari kemarin saya belikan Azima kembang api sparklers (kembang api kecil yang dipegang berbentuk tongkat). Senang bukan kepalang Ia. Dari siang dibelikan, diulang-ulang terus pengingatannya ke ayahnya supaya bisa temani main kembang api malam nanti. Saya baru sadar, ini sepertinya baru pertama Azima main kembang api. Begitu dimainkan tawa riangnya lepas. Ditariknya keluar Bundanya … Read more
In 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
Dulu 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 … Read more
Every 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 … Read more
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“. … Read more
Tesla’s valuation grew by 740% in 2020. They are now the most valuable automakers company in the world. In the early days of Tesla, Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla) had a dream to build a mainstream-affordable and 100 percent electric car. However, building an affordable and 100% electric car is a really hard problem, even … Read more
Many people said that building startup is all about speed and moment. You have to move fast and reach the scaling stage as soon as possible before ruining out your money or outstep by your competitors. This is true when we look at all the unicorns in their place now. They are very fast. They … Read more
Kami membangun Badr Interactive 9 tahun silam. Tapi setelah tahun ke-7 perusahaan ini baru Allah mulai beri stabilitas dan kelapangan. Sebuah perjalanan yang tidak sebentar. Ada sebuah penelitian yang dilakukan Techcrunch terhadap unicorn di US untuk mengetahui kesamaan dan karakteristik yang dimiliki mereka. . Salah satu yang menarik adalah rata-rata dibutuhkan min 8 tahun dari … Read more
Berita kepergian Ashraf Sinclair kemarin meninggalkan kesedihan bagi banyak orang. Tak terkecuali teman-teman yang bergerak di dunia startup digital. Beliau pernah jadi partner di 500 Startups Asia Tenggara. Kami pernah bertemu beberapa kali di forum2 500 Startups. Orangnya ramah dan humble sekali. Satu pelajaran yang kita dapatkan : kematian bisa datang kapan saja. Baik Tua … Read more