Tag Archives: Startup

Spoiled Little Startups

To me, the word startup is starting to lose meaning. It becomes too much of a buzzword that people started to forget how it all usually began: In a garage, born from a burning passion of one or two people. … Continue reading →

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4 Questions To Ask Before Making a Startup

I hear a lot of stories from people making new things and creating cool digital stuffs an all, which is great. But sometimes they create something just for the sake of creating it, which is still cool. The problem arises … Continue reading →

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How different should you be?

No I’m not going to talk about being original and all that, I still think originality is overrated. But you definitely need to stand out among the competition right? Then you need to be different. How different? Well it really … Continue reading →

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Originality is overrated

Originality is overrated, there I said it. Yesterday I wrote about the clone king coming to town, not so long ago Zynga the game company giant shamelessly rip-off Tiny Tower and also a desktop game Super Crate Box “heavily inspired” … Continue reading →

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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, … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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Asian startups doing mobile social apps for the global market will fail (Part 1)

Serkan Toto,  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.

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5th on Youth Startup icon!

Youth Startup icon was organized by markplus. It was such an interesting experience. The winners really deserve to be called startup icons. At first place is a college student who owns 200 goats selling them for aqiqah. There’s also urchin … Continue reading →

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