Sharing Session: An Introduction to Indonesia's Startup Ecosystem. Why Indonesia is an Upcoming Tech Market That Can't be Ignored. Indonesia is awesome. Its capital city of Jakarta is one of the biggest social media users in the world. And a McKinsey report believes that the country is on track to becoming the world’s seventh biggest economy by 2030, placing it ahead of currently more developed countries like the UK and Germany. Indonesia is also the third biggest democratic country, and it has held smooth presidential and parliamentary elections too. While many would prefer to make their living in a more developed country, maybe like the US or Australia, you should seriously consider building your business here in Indonesia. That thought is echoed by many tech entrepreneurs, especially by those who earned their degrees abroad.
I spoke with Adrian Li – an MBA from Stanford university – and Kevin Aluwi – an undergraduate from University of Southern California – about their reasons for betting on Indonesia, rather than western countries. Here’s what I got from them: Indonesia to be a powerhouse by 2020 Let’s go Indonesia. 2012 Global Ad Report: A Spending Uptick, With Digital Eating More of the Pie. It looks like 2012 was a good year for global advertising spending, especially in the digital sector.
The latest Global AdView Pulse report issued by Nielsen shows total spending of $139 billion, a 4.3 percent increase in Q3 2012 ad spending over Q3 2011. This increase outpaced the 2.7 percent growth in the first half of 2012. In North America, ad spending for Q3 rose 10.2 percent. The Asia Pacific region grew 3.5 percent in Q3, with China showing a Q3 increase of 3.1 percent after two consecutive declining quarters.
Western Europe's Q3 ad spending, however, declined 4.8 percent. The most impressive ad growth on a year-to-date basis was in the Middle East and Africa, which saw an 18.9 percent increase from January through September 2012. Randall Beard, global head of advertiser solutions for Nielsen, cautioned that the Q3 data could be a reflection of spending on the Olympics and the U.S. presidential election. Digital advertising was the major beneficiary of ad growth last year. Startup Seperti Apa yang dicari oleh Cyber Agent Ventures ? Editor’s note : Di suatu hari yang random, saya keep in touch dengan Liauw Oswin Liandow, investment manager dari Cyber Agent Ventures (CAV).
Wawancara lainnya tentang Bilna ada di Belajar pengelolaan ecommerce dari Ferry Tenka sedangkan wawancara dengan Takahiro Suzuki (General Manager CAV) ada di “Apa yang harus diperhatikan internet entrepreneur ketika memulai?” Saat ini portofolio CAV di Indonesia adalah Bilna.com dan Tokopedia.com, kami sedang mencari beberapa portofolio lagi seperti di bawah ini : Ecommerce atau vertical ecommerce - Dua startup pertama yang kami invest menggambarkan believe kami terhadap proses perkembangan suatu market internet business.
Terlepas dari ke-5 tipe bisnis di atas, kalau kamu memang ada passion di internet service, yang mana di Indonesia baru berkembang, banyaaaak sekali kategori yang bisa jadi besar sekali. Jika gagal mencoba satu kategori, cobalah kategori lain, kan ada quote yang bilang : BII REPORT: The Future of Mobile Advertising. How Mobile, Social Will Win the 2012 Olympics [INFOGRAPHIC] Planning to augment your viewing of this summer's London Olympics action with a trusty iPad by your side for stat updates, Twitter chatter and other social interaction? Well, thank your lucky pixels — consumer tablets weren't even a thing for the last Summer Olympics, in 2008. Smartphone use hadn't truly taken off back then, either. The increase in mobile technology is sure to have a profound effect on how millions of viewers — and many athletes — experience the 2012 Games.
Fans will be able to converse, debate and rave communally as never before because of mobile proliferation and the explosive growth of social media over the past four years. We recently took a look at how Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have grown since 2008, and the findings were pretty incredible. The digital marketing agency iProspect recently looked at social growth too, but expanded the lens to include mobile, coverage and viewership numbers as well.