Startup community from Yogyakarta, Bancakan 2.0, will be having its second anniversary. And as they celebrate their second birthday, the community which was established on February 24, 2010 will again hold a gathering on Friday, February 24th 2012, from 18:30 – finish. The meet up will be held at Plaza Telkom – Jl Yos Sudarso No.9, Yogyakarta (Kota Baru area).

In previous meet ups, speakers brought on by Bancakan 2.0 were made up mainly of startup owners and developers. This time, on the tenth meet up, the speakers will come from a different background as the theme for this meet up will be “Startups From Investors’ Perspective”. As per the theme, the speakers will be investors who have funded a number of Indonesian startups such as Antonny Liem (Merah Putih Inc), Andrias Ekoyuono (Ideosource), and from Telkomsel, Rizky Muhammad.

Later on, there would be a pitching session. This one should be a very interesting session in which a number of startups from Yogyakarta will pitch in front of the speakers.

This 10th meet up is sponsored by Vodacom, Telkom Indonesia, and Biznet. For DailySocial readers who live in or around Yogyakarta and are missing Bancakan 2.0 meetup, you may follow the meet up this time by registering in bit.ly/bancakan10, and for more information you can go to bancakan.org, FB Page Bancakan 2.0, and the Twitter account @Bancakan.

This meetup will certainly be an exciting and interesting time because it coincides with the second anniversary of Bancakan 2.0.

More than half a year ago, DailySocial discussed the opportunity to raise the photography technology Virtual Reality (VR 360 °); the one that offers VR 360 is IndonesiaVirtual.com, a photography service supported by SmartaIndonesia. Now another service that offers a similar facility (VR 360 °) is coming. The service is delivered by the Ursa Madjor in www.ursamadjor.com.

Ursa Madjor has stated in a release received by DailySocial that Virtual Reality is “an environment with additional virtual objects such as text, audio, and video.” With this technology, Ursa Madjor tries to present an interesting visual experience and informative. You will be able to see 360° image. 360° that referred here isn’t only 360° circle, but it’s 360° of a ball, a space. With it, you may feel as if you are directly in the neighbourhood.

Currently, Ursa Madjor has presented 8 locations in VR 360 ° with various categories such as hotels, cafes, tourist attractions, and even universities. Currently, eight sites are located in Bandung and surrounding areas. Looking ahead, Ursa Madjor keeps trying to add services, not only around Bandung.

Although they claim that their services can be accessed from various devices such as computers, tablet or mobile phones, but in reality, you need a reliable Internet connection for accessing it conveniently. In addition, because the technology uses Flash, for anyone who uses mobile Apple products wouldn’t be able to access VR 360 service from their devices.

In general, the service is actually quite interesting because it presents different virtual experience. Unfortunately, the technology used is still the same with those who have come before (more than 6 months ago). Supposedly, with enough time, Ursa Madjor is able to bring the technology in order to answer “the deficiencies” of previous service. However, if you do have fast internet connection and aren’t using iOS, you can try this service to feel the sensation. Moreover, the locations presented are more diverse.

Aria Rajasa is the CEO of gantibaju.com, a clothing startup not dissimilar to Threadless but with a touch of Indonesia and a very strong design community. His passion in entrepreneurship has gotten him to start a number of companies since leaving university

Content is often the most overlooked element of a startup. This usually happens because most founders are techies and techies concentrate on what they know best: Technology. They can tinker days and months perfecting their code, playing with the test unit and scaling the servers like crazy. Yes, playing with technology is awesome but content is King.

Content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet, just as it was in broadcasting. ~ Bill Gates

But content itself is worthless if it adds no value. Without value, content is just noise and the Internet is full of them! Nobody needs more noise in an already complicated life. To create great content, curation is needed. Curation is what differentiates between noise and great content. It adds value and selects only the most relevant content to specific users.

Fab, a startup that curates and sell design products through a daily newsletter claims to be profitable with $1.3M in revenue after only 30 days. Groupon is the fastest growing company in the world despite having such a low entry barrier in terms of technology. Fab and Groupon curates their contents themselves.

For a local example, let’s look at Fokado.com. The concept is really simple but the way it packages its offers is interesting. It enables us to gift a new experience of fun activities such as DJ lesson for couples or a fencing exercise (remind me to take this one up). Fokado brings a fresh approach in a myriad of Groupon-like businesses.

Self curation has its problem though, Fab.com employs over 90 people to make sure the content is up to par. Groupon has about 10.000 employees around the world. Curating great content is a time and resource consuming work.

Curation works for user-generated content as well. Pinterest comes to mind for this example. Pinterest is so popular is because it has numerous visual content ranging from product design, fashion, beautiful places and other visually interesting images shared by its millions of members. Pinterest curates great content from featured users but the main curation comes from ourselves. We choose what we want to see by following the people that we are interested in.

Zite is also another great example of self-curation. This personalized magazine app for iOS can learn what we like to read by analyzing how we interact with the articles we read. Ranging from the time we spend on articles, to the topics and writers you wish to see more to your likes/dislikes as well. It gets smarter the more you use it. Zite judges great contents as the most relevant content for you personally.

You can also combine self curation and user-controlled curation for a better result. Threadless for example moderates all of the submitted design to maintain the quality of designs entries. After the initial moderation, they let their members decide which ones to print through a voting system.

Lookbook has very thorough restrictions when posting a Look and they will periodically delete all the Looks that does not comply to the rules. They also let people decide trending Looks by letting them “Hype” the looks that they like. Only the highest -rated and most interesting Looks will show up in the front page.

9gag, my favorite humor site took a more user-centric approach and divide the content into 3 different levels: Vote, Trending and Hot. Vote page is where all the new contents go, this is where people vote worthy content to level up to Trending. Trending is where the interesting posts with lots of votes came to be, but the most prestigious page is the Hot page where only the highest-rated posts will be displayed. This gives 9gag a self-curated community although it is not without problems.

So what’s the best way to curate contents? Well there’s no silver bullet on this. You need to learn from existing examples and experiment yourself to find a good balance of curation. Tell us what works for you in the comments.

YouTube’s Hunter Walk presents an argument that the five star rating system used by application stores should be left behind, replaced by more accurate, more reliable measures of popularity. In his view, the five-star system is subjective to the values of those who give them. Your judgment for a three star app may mean differently to someone else’s, but a like or dislike is almost absolute. The same subject was raised back in 2009 by MG Siegler with regards to YouTube.

It certainly serves Walk’s argument that Google changed YouTube’s rating system in favor of thumb up and thumb down. This is similar to the approach that Facebook has taken since the very beginning with its thumb up icon for liking or expressing approval to a status update although Facebook has never allowed a negative vote or a thumb down.

There are also other ways to determine an app’s popularity, some of which are presented in Walk’s blog post. These include co-installation, market segmentation, actual usage, and social graph, as he explained further in his post.

Within the iOS ecosystem, there is an app called Frenzapp that tries to assist app discovery by showing its users what apps their friends use although it requires them to have Frenzapp installed as well. It was developed by Erwan Macé who coincidentally is now responsible for developer relations at Google Southeast Asia.

Frenzapp uses the mechanism that Apple provides to 3rd party developers to detect what other apps are installed in an iOS device to determine interoperability between them. Frenzapp shows what apps are popular among your friends and makes suggestions based on that discovery. Surely this method wouldn’t be too difficult to implement by the operators of application stores.

Apple already implements a similar approach to this in the App Store but limited within a single Apple ID. The Genius feature, if enabled, keeps track of the apps that you have downloaded and suggests similar apps that you might enjoy. This approach in fact is expanded in Game Center wherein it has game recommendations based not only on what games you have installed but what your friends play and how many of them have played it.

Having these measures of popularity together would serve all parties with a more accurate view of the popularity and usage frequency of apps. Besides, it would require less participation from people who have downloaded the apps to judge them, unless they want to leave a worded review, which they should still be able to do.

As to who can rate apps and games in the store? Surely it has to be those who have actually downloaded and used them, which means only logged in users can cast a vote.

As Walk explained further, if a metric can be developed and implemented to determine which apps are being used, the frequency, time spent, as well as its importance on the screen, it would be a gold mine for developers to determine how they can develop their apps further. Search ranking, discovery, and prominence would be greatly improved, although whether this invades people’s privacy is subject to another matter. The least they can do to minimize the privacy issue is by anonymizing the data being collected.

Do you think a five star rating system should be dumped? Sound off below.

[image]

As we all know, the dying social networking site Friendster got acquired by Malaysia-based MOL (Money Online) and now revived as an online gaming portal. After a while, finally MOL decided to enter Indonesian market by establishing a company PT. MOL AccessPortal and apparently has a dedicated man running the country operations since September last year.

Dailysocial have a great discussion with Patrick Setiawan, MOL Indonesia’s Country Manager and we talked about MOL as a company, Friendster, the gaming industry in Indonesia and digital money as a way for platform like Friendster making money from markets like Indonesia.

Check out interview with Patrick below :

Can you give us a bit detail about yourself, your background and how you end up at MOL?

Before joining MOL, I was doing online games publishing.  I was lucky enough to see and learn about the growing online game market in this country.  The payment business got my attention and after I quit the publishing industry, I met some of my friends from MOL and learned that they were opening an office in Indonesia and the rest is history.

MOL is a global company, how do you see MOL positioned themselves compared to other competitors?

MOL does not position ourselves as competitors to any brands but as potential business partners to grow and provide consumers with more value-added services. We are an internet company which provides an array of services and products, for example, MOL is an electronic payment service provider for online games and payments, whilst Friendster is a platform for social games enthusiasts to meet and interact. MOL has a family of sub products such as MOLPoints, MOL Reload, MOL Cards and MOLPay. Today, MOL has over 600,000 physical payment channels across 75 countries worldwide and handles over 5,000,000 transactions a month.

As a Malaysia-based company, what are the negative and positive impact you can share?

I think I can say that there are more positive than negative.  Instead of looking at MOL as a Malaysian-based company, I see MOL as a global company.  Having offices in 6 Asian countries and its products being available in many more, as well as Friendster that serves as a social games platform really put MOL in a position where we provide complete solutions to the market.  I guess being a foreign newcomer in a new country, there will always be challenges, but MOL is a dynamic company and with the support of the local team, I’m sure MOL will settle very quickly.

You guys bought Friendster not too long ago, what is the future for Friendster you have in plan?

The acquisition and restructuring of Friendster is in line with our commitment in bringing world-class social games whilst providing a social networking platform for our region. Just within a short span of 3 months, Friendster’s social games are proving to be creating deeper engagements and interactions for these young Asian users.

Social games on Friendster are offered free with exclusive in-game items purchasable to enhance the users’ game play. Friendster’s virtual currency, Friendster Coins, has also seen a healthy increase since the site was re-launched.

MOL Global is on the right track to make Friendster a sustainable online business. There are endless possibilities for us to extend our service offering to our users. For example, Friendster has also introduced a free wireless Internet services at popular outlets such as Starbucks, across Malaysia. We will continue to introduce more new channels and integrate more online and social activities in the near future.

It is distinct that Friendster will be a site that allows for more social interaction and focuses on letting people create a viral interaction through online game. Friendster is passionate about improving people’s lives with a one stop platform to enjoy multiple social activities anytime and anywhere.

MOL recently show interest to Indonesian market. Why is that?

The Indonesian online game and internet industry has been growing very rapidly in the last couple of years.  This is shown by a number of things: the number of games being launched every year, the growing number of local and global publishers getting into the market, the fast growing of Facebook users (although India has just overtaken the second place from us recently) and how more and more people are starting to make transactions online.  MOL saw this as an opportunity to grow its business to a larger global scale, as well as to provide Indonesians with a wider array of content, having owned a vast selection of global MMO contents and also popular social contents like Facebook Credit, Zynga Game Cards and Playfish Cash.

How will you position yourself in Indonesian market and grab their attention?

MOL is proud to say that one of our top products is Facebook Credits and having worked direct with Facebook, MOL is able to offer a very competitive rate of Facebook Credits to the market.  We also have our own Facebook App called MOLPoints App that allows users to reload and make purchases of MOL contents right from Facebook to create an enjoyable and user-friendly experience.  Furthermore, MOL is also very strong in bringing global contents as options to the Indonesian players.

In general, where do you think this whole “digital money” thing is going in the future? What’s the next big thing?

From past success stories, for example, eBay has shown its success via listing and transaction fees model, whilst Google has made it easy to place and serve ads, even for small SMEs and individuals. Tencent’s (China) model is based on light consumer monetization, whilst others include freemium models like Angry Birds, and the successful subscription model of World of Warcraft, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). From that, we are always optimistic about the future of digital currency and products. New developments that we need to take note of are many, but especially NFC (near field communications), cloud computing and the rise of smart-phones.

Last week Tokopedia announced that it has adopted UNIK as an additional payment option that its customers can use to purchase goods from its online stores.

UNIK, short for Uang Elektronik (Electronic Money) is a payment system developed by a company called Transmaya. it covers online purchases, utility bills, and phone credit top ups and the company is also working to add fund transfers to its service. To use UNIK, buyers will have to register as a member and deposit funds before they can take advantage of the facilities.

Tokopedia explains on its website that the benefit for customers by using UNIK is the instant verification of payments which allows a speedier transaction between merchants and buyers. For merchants, the benefit is the addition of UNIK users as potential customers.

UNIK can be used to purchase items for as little as Rp 50,000 and a maximum value of Rp 5 million. Some of the conditions in using UNIK is that each invoice must be paid separately and that there can only be 19 types of items per invoice although there’s no limit as to the number of items in the invoice. Customers have 30 minutes to confirm and pay for the order using UNIK’s system.

The Payment systems should (Really) Easy to Use

Payment would be an important issue in e-commerce. It’s not the only issue but an important factor. Tokopedia also seeks a payment method tool that can support the transaction quickly.

But amidst the competition of existing payment system, not to mention the payment services from bank such as BCA KlikPay and Mandiri ClickPay, the one close to what users have used that will be selected. Users and sellers actually don’t want complicated process, the addition of payment system should escalate and facilitate buying and selling channel that they – users and sellers already use or related to. Adding another account for payment will make too many option for users.

This is one thing that must be considered by Tokopedia. User must have UNIK account. It means that for those who didn’t have it should make an account, and maybe it will add another account for payment system that users had. Yes, there are other payment options in Tokopedia, but it’s a ‘manual’ bank transfer. Unless the main purpose is more to take UNIK members to buy in Tokopedia, it would be becoming another matter.

On the other hand, the news about payment system is becoming the positive side. At least, there’s additional option for making payments, although as I mentioned above, the additional payment option should make both parties, seller and buyer easy of doing business and it’s not creating additional work for both.

Full details of the payment in Tokopedia with UNIK, can be viewed here.

Riyeke Ustadiyanto (founder of iPayMu.com) has announced in the Station Community Facebook Group and in the #startuplokal mailing list about the latest iPayMu feature called EscrowMu. Riyeke explained that EscrowMu is escrow professional software issued by iPayMu which allows both parties (seller and buyer) to be involved in the sale without any risk.

“EscrowMu can be owned by anyone who is interested to organize joint account or escrow. For buyers, they can be assured receiving 100% good condition of goods from the seller and the seller will be protected from online scams. If you run a webhosting business, domain appraisal service or website domain registration, we can add value to the site by offering customers an online escrow service”, explained Riyeke  in our e-mail interview.

Riyeke also explained that EscrowMu (escrow premium iPayMu) feature was made to be more flexible and users can set the percentage amount of transactions that are set by the escrow owner. In addition EscrowMu merchant can put their own label branding.

Some benefits from this new feature consist of EscrowMu member merchant benefit and EscrowMu admin merchant benefit. Details are as follows:

EscrowMu member merchant benefits are:

• iPayMu integrated membership system for quick and instant payment.
• Registration of buyers/sellers automatically.
• “Forget password” system.
• Buyers can choose the method of goods receipt.
• Sellers can choose the method of receiving the money after the transaction is completed.
• Member has the ability to update their profile.
• Welcome email will be sent to newly registered member.
• Members can view a list of transactions in escrow account.
• Both parties (seller and buyer) will receive notification via email if there is a new escrow transaction.
• Members can initiate an escrow transaction quickly and easily.
• Escrow transaction status is displayed in real-time.
• Integrated support for faster contact with admin.

EscrowMu admin merchant benefits are:

• Able to modify and delete members.
• Able to set the commission fee.
• Able to change admin username/password.
• Able to view/change questions that have been sent via member support.
• Monitoring every escrow transaction in real-time.
• Notification will be sent to email if the payment has been made.
• Email notification will be sent to admin during escrow transaction process so admin can find the latest information via email.
• Admin can manually delete/approve/complete the escrow.
• Able to view details of each escrow transaction.
• Admin can view the status of each escrow transaction (all of escrow, pending escrow, cancelled escrow and approved escrow).

Is this EscrowMu development is an impact of getting investment from Ideosource? Riyeke explained that EscrowMu development is roadmap planned by iPayMu. They see a lot of marketplace or e-commerce sites that want to have escrow as their monetization service aren’t facilitated yet. Their development didn’t have any relationship with Ideosource.

“iPayMu members as of today are around 3195 users (July 2011 – Present), we’re moving to one million users and we are optimistic for it”, explained Riyeke to DailySocial.

To summarize this article, we also asked Riyeke about iPayMu.com future plan. As described by Riyeke, iPayMu future plan is to make Indonesian people moving toward digital world. Thus Riyeke’s term (iPayMu) is Indonesia DIGINOMICs will be realized. Relating to it, they are arranging a new platform in order to create a free online store, like Google launched (www.bisnisgoonline.co.id).

However as described by Riyeke, iPayMu platform is different from Google. iPayMu builds an social online store platform that is connected to iPayMu. Their target is to make 1,000,000 of new netpreneurs enjoying free of charge. This is done in order to grow and build a digital economic involving business connected with Internet.

eVoucher, one of the local daily deals services, launched a new service called Idol Voucher. Idol Voucher is a combination between daily deals concept and the meetup events. eVoucher will be holding an event that invites Idol endorsed by merchant which is having cooperation with eVoucher. By purchasing a voucher for the event, fans would be able to meet, talk directly, and to take pictures with the idol.

Idol can be anyone who is proposed by the fans. It could be artist, celebrity, doctor, photographer, blogger, entrepreneur or anyone who is considered successful and popular in their field. Fans who want their idol to be elected as Idol Voucher could propose by mentioning to eVoucher Twitter (@diskonevoucher) with hash-tag #IDOLVOUCHER.

For the first Idol they invited Arief Muhammad, the owner of twitter account @Poconggg. This character, according to Danny Baskara (from eVoucher) in an interview via email, was chosen because it’s fit with the Valentine Day moment.@ Poconggg that in the virtual world known by the nickname “Move On Ambassador” (a tagline for people to move on from the one he/she like) is expected to be able to attract the attention of the teenage fans.

Up to now, 11 fanmeet vouchers with Arief Muhammad was sold from total 40 vouchers provided. To add the interest, for the fans who have purchased this service their picture will appear in the deal page. Time to buy this deal is still remaining for under 22 hours.

Innovation is the key word for the local daily deals services owner in order to survive in this business. Considering the number of players who play in the same field, offering something different to consumers will become an advantage that differentiates from the other services.

Although the success level isn’t yet proven, eVoucher innovation is a smart idea. Basically daily business deals are two-way services (to merchants and consumers), however this innovation has led to both. Bring more customers to the merchant, but also offer more value to the consumer to come to the merchant. Again, this innovation isn’t proven successfully, we need to wait until this weekend to see the market response to this innovation.

On February 9, at @america Pacific Place Jakarta, Jakarta Founder Institute (JKTFI) held a graduation ceremony for their first batch of startups.

13 founders have established eight startups with a variety of services, there are live features and services that can be enjoyed by users. However most of them are still preparing to launch their services.

The event was quite interesting. Attended by the mentors and the invitees including the investors, the event also featured the presentation from the graduates who have described their services, market opportunities and market business strategy.

Founder Institute is an idea-stage global incubator that has been held in various countries. In Jakarta, this 13 founders is the first batch of successful ‘education’ in Jakarta Founder Institute. As written in previous DailySocial articles, there are 132 participants registered, 42 of them were accepted and finally only 13 founders are left.

The participants had more than 20 mentors consisting of the big names and experienced professionals in Indonesia technology world and global; among others are Andi S. Boediman, Andy Zain, Izak Djenie, Peter Vesterbacka, Phil Libin and Nanda Ivens, Remco Lupker, Antonny Liem, etc. The task and guidance are quite tight but finally the founders have managed to deal with all tasks and succeeded establishing 8 startups.

Eight startups that made a presentation at the event are:

1. Abilities

This startup provides service to help those affected by stroke, ALS or those who have active mind but with limited control over their bodies and the normal eyes capability. The first product of Abilities is Android application for eye tracking with affordable cost.

In a simple way, this application is using Android basis front camera phone to perform certain commands. This command is done with “a wink”.

Abilities plans to release their service on February 24th. This service also has cooperated with Samsung. Later on, they will develop premium application with an affordable cost. They also partnered with several hospitals.

Abilities is the product of AndTechnology and they are the SparxUp Awards 2011 grand winner.

Founders graduated from JKTFI are Ridwan Djuhari and Josep William Widjaja.

2. Eductory

This startup developed online media to help middle-upper segment/class parents to find the right education for their children. The existing education is including schools, courses, and private counseling.

One of the benefits that they want to highlight from this service is automated matching engine. Some features would be available, such as search/directory facility, review/share and social network. In the search facility, the advantage is developed thus users can find what they are looking for according to their appropriate behaviour in Eductory.

Their business plans are advertising, paid content and lead generation. While the developing strategy service is to organize the event, build a partnership with education providers and influencers who have a concern with education. They plan to release it on March 16th this year.

Founder graduated from JKTFI are Nelly Kasih (Founder – CEO) and Sindhu Dilaksono Prabowo (Co-Founder – CTO).

3. Fokado

Fokado is the only startup Jakarta Founder Institute graduates who have released their service. Fokado provide service that is focusing on experience.

Users can choose a gift for someone else but the prize isn’t “a regular prize”, it’s an experience. So the gift donor can choose a variety of experiences that are available on Fokado site, they can buy and give gift certificate to desired person. A Gift certificate can be sent with a wrap (like a real gift) or in the form of an e-certificate.

Currently a variety of experience gifts are available on their site, such as fencing, wake boarding, tea workshop, dj lessons and horse riding. There is also a gift experience for single or couple.

Founder graduated from JKTFI is Antonius Taufan.

4. Ifetcha

This service is targeting mobile devices users. Ifetcha application intended to help users to connect with new people around them. Ifetcha application is based on location. It  has some social features and gamification.

This application is basically a mobile dating service, targeting users with age around 18 – 35 years. In this application there are also elements of rewards – badges are based on points accumulated for doing certain activities.

This application is scheduled to be released on late March in Blackberry (in Indonesian and English).

Founder graduated from JKTFI are Muhammad Ikram and Yadi Guitana.

5. Mitra Micro

This service is targeting informal workers or individuals in Indonesia that are living with low incomes. Mitra Micro is providing the insurance for those in need.

Mitra Micro works with the subscription model and has a partnership with insurance company. Their service is using mobile application and web.

So, at the simple words, for future the insurance company partners would be using Mitra Micro to provide TI services (end to end solution) and create a partnership strategy for distributing the insurance program. Insurance will be sold at Ruma.co.id. mig33, and PT POS. Mitra Micro monetization will be coming from the premium commission has been sold.

The first plan released is on March 15th, 2012. According to the plan, their application will be available on BB, Samsung, Nexian and Symbian-based phones.

Founder graduated from JKTFI is Hendra Suryakusuma.

6. Socientix

This service provides the “other way” for asset manager to invest. Starting from the passion founder in the investment field, Socientix has invited investors to invest. However it’s not always about money but also the social element.

While is still in development stage; this cloud-based service will provide profiling feature and monitoring with filtering news feature, performance analysis, etc. Then there is reporting to provide a variety of reports, including standards, SCR, etc.

This service plans to provide an API for third parties. Socientix plans to launch their services later on April 2012.

Founder graduated from JKTFI is David Darmawan.

7. Stilomo

Application for mobile devices provides a service for those who want to get discounts from various merchants. Unlike the other services which require user to buy a discount coupon, to get a promo on Stilomo users only need to share promo information on social media.

This service is having gamification element. The strategy offered to merchants is to create a viral marketing with a low budget. For business owners, the report for their promo activities will be provided.

Business owners will not be charged to appear in Stilomo but to get all the available features, they must pay small amount of cost. Later the business owners can do their own post.

Applications will be available for iOS platform, Android and Blackberry. The first service will be launched officially on April 9th 2012 or even sooner than that.

Founder graduated from JKTFI are Rebecca Agiestha, Nicholas Yudha and Stanley Octavian.

8. Wujudkan

This is a crowdfunding service dedicated to Indonesia creative project. Artists and creators in Indonesia could display their project, users or site visitors will be able to contribute funds for realizing the creator’s project to be done.

Wujudkan wants to create a system that could support many project from artists and creators in Indonesia to be done, especially projects that require funds (to be realized).

Currently their site is being prepared for its release according to the plans on February 21st. As an initial project, there are a film from Mira Lesmana/Riri Reza and Popzzle, a music album that will be appearing on their site.

For those who are interested in making donations can get a variety of facilities for example: able to choose a gift that has been provided by project owner such as merchandise, VIP invitations, etc. Donor can also help to spread the information in their social networking project.

Founder graduated from JKTFI is Mandy Marahimin.

-

The graduation event was quite interesting, especially in terms of presentation. The mentors seemed to be able to guide the participants for making well presentation. At least the founder – startup focus on the features and benefits of the service, the presentation didn’t extend to the unecessary things. In addition, the participants also included the existing markets and what they want to achieve. This is quite important because it could be the initial attraction for investors.

The startup found by JKTFI graduates also offered a variety of services, at least there are some segments taken by the Jakarta Founder Institute graduates. There are health, customer focus, social, commerce, and mobile segments.

Not all startups are ready at the graduation time, a short time during JKTFI can also be a factor. But I hope, the startups can stay focused with what they have planned and soon launched their service in order to get responses/opinions from users. The goal is for research materials. I think during JKTFI, it was the original research and now is the field research.

I agree with Andy Zain saying that these graduates are ‘the special one’, the local and global mentors who not all people may get the opportunity to have guidance from them. Not to mention the graduates are also still be able to build relationships with the Founder Institute and they will have advanced variety of events. So this special factor may be used for self-development for founder and their startup.

Congratulations for the graduates of Jakarta Founder Institute. Hopefully you all can be a reliable businessmen and your startup can grow/succeed.

Disclosure: DailySocial is media partner of Jakarta Founder Institute program.

In the previous article I was talking about S Apps Planet released by S Nexian. This mobile application store will present as a pre-loaded for new S Nexian Android smartphone. With the ads that have been circulating everywhere, in a large billboard and in a media, everyone in this industry must assume that S Nexian is working seriously on this app store business.

However, if we try to navigate various menus on the S Nexian official site, there is no information at all about how the developer could register their Android application into S Apps Planet. I tried contacting S Nexian and got a reply saying Iguana Technology is in charge for the application registration process. Finally, Iguana Technology Representative, Linda Regina provides information on how the developer can register the application.

Currently the developers who want to place their application may contact Iguana Technology via email, sappsplanet[at]iguanatechnology.com. In addition, the query may also be addressed via phone on 021-5680605 or 021-5680502.

Linda also explained that the business scheme promoted by S Apps Planet consists of two things. First is revenue sharing scheme; the income is divided by the percentage that has been agreed between the operator as a payment partner, S Nexian, and developers. Second scheme is “cash and carry”; S Nexian would buy full mobile application that is offered. S Apps Planet will use operator billing to process the transaction of application purchase. They have been working with five GSM operators.

Usually if there are vendors/operators who want to develop their application store, they will be sounding it in the forum or developer community in advance. Thus, at the product launch they already have the significant amount of “merchandises”. S Nexian seems providing different way to boost S Apps Planet prestige through a public massive campaign. A part of applications, song/music/audio files will also be available in S Apps Planet.

Would this strategy encourage more developers for putting their Android application to S Apps Planet (belongs to S Nexian)?