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Acquisition Yahoo! against Koprol mean big. The spirit of a local startup thickened, more wide open opportunity, Indonesia was more ogled the world. The question is, can Indonesia become the Silicon Valley of Southeast Asia?
ACQUISITION Yahoo! against Koprol mean big. The spirit of a local startup thickened, more wide open opportunity, Indonesia was more ogled the world. The question is, can Indonesia become the Silicon Valley of Southeast Asia?
No one knows how much the acquisition Yahoo! against Koprol, location-based social networking service founded Satya Witoelar, Dawn Budiprasetyo, and Daniel Armanto it. Reportedly, the value of acquisitions reached $ 1 million (9 billion). But more interesting than just the acquisition Koprol against Yahoo! is not never been unimaginable even a few pioneering companies (start ups), Indonesia was acquired by one of the giants in Silicon Valley, California, which became the mecca of technology business world. Currently, as all eyes looked Indonesia.
Acquisition news was published in various international media. Including TechCrunch who had come to Indonesia and said that the startup and web entrepreneurs in Indonesia to grow organically as in the early days in Silicon Valley. TechCrunch is a site that discusses about the startup. For the web entrepreneur in America, coverage by TechCrunch as they launch their start-ups is something that is very important and even dreamed of.
They believe that if they were covered by TechCrunch startup, start up they will succeed. Player great internet business both locally and internationally began attracted to invest their money to startuplokal. The first and most aggressive is the East Venture of Singapore. Investors who commandeered Batara Eto had already invested in several start-ups such as e-commerce sites Tokopedia, lifestyle portal / directory of local businesses Urbanesia, PriceArea shopping search engine and social media analytics Scraplr.
Batara Eto is an Indonesian who became a co-founder and CEO of Mixi, social networking is very popular in Japan. If the first local investors still hesitate to invest into the internet industry, the trend slowly began to shift. Red and White Inc., the company's digital and technology incubator that has just inaugurated on January 27th, 2011 ago, claimed to be ready to support the growth of industry and digital technology to advance the start-up Indonesia in the arena of regional, even global.
"We want to ensure that the start-up began to have the support they need and the ecosystem to develop perusahaan.Tidak only in terms of finance or investment, but also monitoring, advice from a business perspective, as well as revenue models and marketing," says Danny Wirianto, Chairman Red and White Inc. Red and White Inc., which already provides support to a startup like Cross News, Krazy Market, Info kost, Ads On It, and Daily Social became the first incubator company in Indonesia in the digital and technological.
'Incubation' granted to other companies in the form of funding and strategy to companies that join is independent. According to the CEO of Aria Rajasa Gantibaju.com Masna, the emergence of investors that will help grow start-up capital in solving problems.
"Of course not as much money circulating in Amerika.Namun enough to accelerate the development of start-ups to existing ones," he said.
With the support of investors, supporting events and organizations, Aria predict 2011 will be a very good year for start-ups. Investors who already hold some start-up is definitely not going to stop there and will continue to support the recently. Aria rate, will be many new investors who will enter the program start-up mentoring / incubator.
"Like the Founders Institute of Singapore who was said to be coming this March and there are several similar incubator to be built in Indonesia with funding from local and foreign," he said.
With the increasing number of start-ups, according to Aria, job vacancies will become more and more as well.
"This is a good change considering the educational system and the paradigm of our society 'requires' us to walk straight by looking for an office job as usual," he said.
It is expected that with the increasing number of examples of successful, young children will be more motivated to follow the path to entrepreneurship.
"I do not know will affect how much, but this time the number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia, not to 1 percent compared to its population. As for Singapore's 13 percent and the U.S. 7 percent. This development is expected to make the 1 percent boost it significantly," he said.
Mamuaya Rama, founder DailySocial.net, argues that the Internet industry has tremendous potential. According to him, the Internet industry is an industry that has a virtual asset that can fix the financial terms of the margin is very high compared with services in other industries.
"The opportunities in Indonesia are still enormous, there are still many problems waiting to be solved by the entrepreneur who mix the solution," he said.
As part of SMEs that become the main drivers of the Indonesian economy, growth and development of start-up-start uplokal this will positively impact the creative industries and the economy of Indonesia.
"It is not impossible for Indonesia to become the Silicon Valley of Southeast Asia," said Nugraha Word, co-founder of Techno-Jurnal.com, a blog that focuses on technology start-ups and local.
"More and more local start-ups, automatic job even bigger. It can assist Indonesia in reducing unemployment," he added. ( Koran SI / Dana Arradian )
By sari, okezone.com, Updated: 1/31/2011 11:25 AM
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