The Clone King is Coming to Town
There’s been a lot of talk about shameless Samwer Brothers (Rocket Internet), their expansion to Singapore, Malaysia and our dearest Indonesia. Even their email brief to the Indonesia team is leaked out. For those of you not following the news, Rocket Internet is the clone king from Berlin, Germany. Here as quoted from sangatpedas:
These guys clone faster and sometimes better than the original. Rocket Internet is the Super KW AAA ++++ amongst the tech companies. While Pinterest is still in invitation mode (but getting unbelievable traction) the Rocket guys already have Pinspire up and running and surfing the wave of traction.
They have a very good track record so far (in terms of business deals), as quoted from SGEntrepreneurs:
Founded in 2007, Rocket Internet’s successful ventures include CityDeal, which was purchased by Groupon for US$126M; short terms rental site Wimdu, which has raised US$90M; Alando, an online auction house that was sold to eBay for US$50M, and more.
Asian startups doing mobile social apps for the global market will fail (Part 2)
As I’ve written before about Serkan Toto’s tweets, I invited you guys to discuss about the problem described in the title. But I guess commenting on blogs is considered “uncool” for today standard. Good thing I also made the discussion on startuplokal mailing list which got a couple of interesting replies.
Asian startups doing mobile social apps for the global market will fail (Part 1)
Serkan Toto, Â tweeted two very debatable tweet these past days, here’s the screenshot
What do you guys think? Debate away in the comment section. I’ll post my view about it tomorrow.
Stop Multitasking and Start Focusing
For us men, multitasking is a joke. It’s our way to assuring ourselves that we are doing a lot of things but we’re actually just wasting our time. I’m sure the idea of finishing that proposal while watching the last episode of Shameless sounds great, or returning emails while on a date with your Blackberry sounds efficient but it’s not. You’ll do a shitty job at it, and a slap in the face from your girlfriend.
Rebooting my blog
Judging from the last post which was posted 4 months ago, I say I’m going lazy here. Hiatus, whatever. The reason mostly just busy doing stuffs (read: bored) and lack of inspiration (read: too lazy to do research). But seeing how my wife is passionately writing her new novel made me want to write again.
So here I am rebooting my blog again. Will do a weekly post every wednesday and focus on writing about business case studies, business model generation, ideas and opinions about things that interest me, which is tech, design and casual fashion.
Got an idea on what I should write next? Buzz me on the comment section!
Interview with MNC TV
Today I got invited to MNC TV for an interview, discussing the current digital trend, e-commerce in Indonesia an winning IYCE Fashion. Interesting experience :) Thx for having me!
Profiled at Republika
Featured at Republika newspaper. I look mildly fat :P
Winning IYCE 2011 Fashion Sector
Never thought I would win in the Fashion Sector, but London HERE I COME!
Featured on Market+ Magazine
I was featured in market+ magazine july edition. Awesome :) thx to Dolly Lesmana for the scoop! I haven’t read it myself but will look into it once i get my hands on one.
