MediaWave on Frontier Consulting Group’s Post Investment Strategy and Other Development

Last week came in some media the news about investments from Frontier Consulting Group (FCG) to MediaWave, 30% of their shares now owned by FCG while the remaining 70% is still owned by the founder of MediaWave, Yose Rizal and Erik Palupi.

DailySocial had never written specifically about MediaWave, but Rama had discussed trends such as services provided by MediaWave in relation to the trend of social media analytics. Some services are similar to MediaWave among others are Trendiest and Katapedia.

MediaWave is a monitoring platform and analysis of social media that can be used by brand owners to monitor the conversations of consumers in social media, they provide a service that can capture the conversation in Indonesian and a deeper excavations, including for the sentiment, geographic data, gender, influencers or presence of competitors and things relating to specific keywords.

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The Winners of Bubu Awards v.07

IDBYTE 2011 entered the top event with the announcement of the winners Bubu Awards v.07 on Thursday night, July 14, 2011. After a series of events that took place from 11 to 14 July 2011, as well as previous roadshow events to several major cities and campuses in Indonesia, followed by three day workshop, as well as seminars on the last day, a series of events closed with the announcement of the winners of Bubu Awards v.07.

Shinta W. Dhanuwardoyo in her speech said that the number of participants for the workshop that is run on July 11 to 13 of 1,500 participants, while for the seminar approaching 1,000, and the number of speakers as much as 28 speakers.

Top event held at The Ritz Carlton Ballroom, Pacific Place, Jakarta and announced the winners of various categories, they are:
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SuBali’s Meet Up V.4 on Mobile Development

SuBali (Startup Bali) will hold their 4th routine meetup, and this time the theme will be on Mobile Development, one of the hottest theme considering the popularity of mobile device, application growth and interesting business opportunity.

As said on their eEvent page, they will talk about mobile opportunity and discuss topic related to the quick growth of mobile device’s application development but not followed with a number of mobile developers. Their amount is too little, both in quality or quantity.

Meetup is sponsored by N.Ice will also have short 1 hour workshop on mobile development. Workshop will discuss mobile application development using OVI App Wizard.

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Lapar.com’s First Gathering in Bandung (Video Interview)

Lapar.com held their first gathering in Bandung last Saturday June 25, 2011. Held at Rumah Makan Arum Manis – Cihampelas Bandung, it was attended by more than 300 people, not only users but also merchants.

Lapar.com becomes one of interesting daily deals service since it was launched because focusing on food merchants. They have plenty of active users, especially from Bandung. As Firman, founder Lapar.com, stated the reason they chose Bandung to held first gathering was based on the fact that the largest community of Lapar.com is in the city.

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Hack & Roll by Yahoo! Koprol

If you’re getting tired of similar competitions you might want to check this one out. Yahoo! Koprol is holding Hack&Roll based in Indonesia and Philippines. Developers will compete using unreleased Koprol API and work some wonders. They will have only 3 weeks to do that. For what prize? For 3 newest game console, for three winners.

Hack & Roll as a form of appreciation towards hackers by Yahoo! Koprol. Hacker here (in Indonesia) is in a negative way, where they can be positive if they are doing something that will bring good. Hack & Roll will be kicked off today [registration form is yet to be available]. Idea registration (yes you read me correctly, you need to submit your idea on what do you want to do with Koprol API) is open until July 15, 2011 23.59 Jakarta time or Juli 16, 2011 00.59 Manila time. Although the party itself will only be held at these two cities, everyone around the globe can join. You just need to form a team maximun of four people, it can be a solo member team, 2 member, or 3 as well.

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Stasion Workshop #3: “New Wave of E-Commerce The Challenge & Opportunity for Startup”

Stasion, a startup community from Malang have several agendas and programs. Stasion Internal Meetup is a routine members gathering. Stasion Public Meetup is a routine gathering for public, larger than Internal Meetup. Last but not least is Stasion Workshop, open for public.

Workshop this time will talk about “New Wave of E-Commerce The Challenge & Opportunity for Startup”. It will be held on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 on 09.00 – 14.30 WIB at Gedung INBIS Universitas Brawijaya, Jl. Veteran No. 11 – 12, Malang – Indonesia (maps). Stasion Workshop is supported by INAICTA 2011 team.

The first session will present INAICTA 2011 team. Looks like there will be socialization on INAICTA 2011 and sharing from several INAICTA’s previous years winners, maybe it will be like what they did at Gamelan community’s event in May. Second session will present two speakers related to workshop’s theme, Peter Widjaja (VP of Operation at East Ventures) and Amri (Founder Game4Smart dan AlfaSoft).

The event is free of charge, and if you are interested, you can register here. Go Malang’s startups!

What’s in Investors’ Mind: Data and Research

On Echelon 2011, one of panel discussions talked about investors. The theme is always interesting or at least can bring a good discussion.

What’s in investor’s mind became the main question, especially for startup that needs funding and been wondering how investors think of a startup and what are the considerations before they fund any startup.

Panelist of Willson Cuaca – East Ventures, James Chan – Neoteny Labs, Tuff Yen – Seraph Group dan William Klippgen – Tigers Capital exposed many interesting things, and there are at least two things that interested me, data and research.

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Get Your Startup’s Marketing Plan Ready and Register to Bubu Awards v07

Bubu Awards, prestigious competition, is back this year. And this time it will be bigger, just like digital industry development in Indonesia. Bubu Awards is a part of a larger event called id-byte. There will be conferences, workshops, roadshow, exhibition and competition (Bubu Awards v07).

At Bubu Awards there’s a special category for startups called Marketing Plan Competition organized with Nusantara Ventures. In this competition startups can send their marketing plan to market their product and service, and they will face a panel of highly competent judges.

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Short Interview with PlayMoolah – Winner of Echelon 2011 Startup Launchpad (Video)

PlayMoolah becomes the winner of Echelon 2011 Startup Launchpad, an event as part of Echelon 2011 series of events. Echelon 2011 was held for 2 days, June 16-17, 2011 and the agenda was presentation, panel discussions and startup exhibition from various countries including Indonesia.

The event was held in University Cultural Centre (UCC) at National University of Singapore, as part of Echelon, also presented Startup Launchpad, the final part of Echelon 2011 Satellite held in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and of course, Indonesia.

Presentations came from 11 startups, three of them from Indonesia, Fetch Fans, Moglue, LocoBuzz, JellyBus, SixReps, SecondCRM, TributeBallon (Cardinal Blue), Bouncity, WorkCrowd, PriceArea, and PlayMoolah.

At the end of the day the judges chose PlayMoolah as the winner of Echelon 2011 Startup Launchpad.

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