Category Archives: Opinion

Facebook’s Billion Dollar Paranoia

TweetSilicon Valley is partly driven by Paranoia, even former Intel CEO Andy Grove wrote a book on this subject back in 1996. Companies often buy other companies not to advance themselves or to add assets but to prevent competitors from gaining an advantage by acquiring them instead. This applies across industries though, not just Silicon [...]
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Comparing Three Online Small and Medium Enterprise Directories

TweetWiku once had written his opinion on a wide-open opportunity to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In that opinion, he said that despite SMEs owners’ knowledge about the internet is increasing, opportunities for business development as well as helping SMEs owners to develop their businesses, remains wide open. This may be true because until [...]
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Is Google Drive Even Worth Using?

TweetGoogle has finally released Google Drive, the long awaited online file storage service that had been rumored for six years. But don’t call it that, because Google SVP of Chrome and Apps, Sundar Pichai, hates files and file management. In fact, he was the one who killed the original Google Drive project, dubbed GDrive, several [...]
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[Simply Business] Go Local, Screw Global

TweetGoing global! That’s pretty much the dream of any startup founders when planning on their startups. The dream that has been achieved by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and everyone else in Silicon Valley. It’s a common thing to think globally, but don’t forget that to go global, you need to plant your roots locally first. I’m [...]
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Learn to Fail, Fail to Learn

TweetFor people who pioneered a business, the word “fail” is a scary word. Loss of income, loss of pride; maybe it’s something that will be associated with the word “fail”. Like every other young people who live today that has “poisoned” by entrepreneur virus, also as a writer, I also have a small business. I [...]
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[Music Monday] Music Labels, Make Something Simple And Put It On The Web!

TweetAs covered by DailySocial a few days ago, Touchten launched a music app in collaboration with Aquarius Musikindo, one of the ‘major independent’ labels (this is the term they use in the industry to note a large music label not affiliated with the Big Four: Sony, Universal Music, Warner Music and EMI). This move deserves [...]
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[Simply Business] Believe in Your Stupid Ideas

TweetThere is a very thin line between a brilliant idea and a stupid idea. Some ideas just didn’t make sense at the time, but it may made more sense in the future. Some are just plain stupid. You may think you can differentiate instantly between the two, but that’s not always the case. For example, [...]
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Why Rocket Internet is actually doing Indonesia a favor

TweetThey come, they execute, they sell. Samwer Brothers might not be the idol for most entrepreneurs, but their company is giving an amazing impact for startup market like Indonesia. Since their existence broke a few months ago, Rocket Internet has been hiring people like crazy, they’re bringing cloned companies to the market and make good [...]
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About Startup and Media Coverage

TweetOne day, I found this article on my Twitter timeline (I’m sorry I can’t remember from whom I got this link). The article sticks in my head because, not only because it’s interesting to think about, I’ve experienced something similar with the condition pictured in the article, I am from the media side. One point [...]
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Ipsos Survey Result and Opportunities for Online Trading Players

TweetRecently, Ipsos released the result of its survey that shows some things about the behavior of internet user in Indonesia in shopping online. Ipsos is an independent market research company run by professional researchers. Founded in France, it now has offices in 84 countries. The survey says that 69% of internet users in Indonesia do [...]
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