Jason Lamuda: E-Commerce is a Lot Like Traditional Retail

Fashion e-commerce site BerryBenka now serve 300-500 transactions per day after its launch in late 2011. CEO Jason Lamuda revealed that he plans to raise another round of funding some time this year as the company grows in double digit percentage on a monthly basis. Lamuda had a chat with us this week about the Indonesian e-commerce landscape and shared his views on VCs looking into investing in the local Internet business scene, his competition, growth potentials, and other issues affecting Internet-based businesses.

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Groupon Indonesia Founders Leave to Focus on E-Commerce Startups

The other day we reported the launch of Bilna, an e-commerce site that sells baby products. The people behind the web site? Ferry Tenka and Jason Lamuda, both of whom are the co-founders of Disdus which became Groupon Indonesia. Lamuda himself had been an advisor at a fashion e-commerce site called BerryBenka, co-founded by his wife and her friend back in August 2011. With the two co-founders of Groupon Indonesia focusing on their own companies, the obvious question is, “what’s happening with Groupon Indonesia?”. Continue reading Groupon Indonesia Founders Leave to Focus on E-Commerce Startups

Groupon Indonesia hit by KIRF* Complaint

Earlier today we were alerted to a blog post by Bellamy Budiman about Groupon/Disdus selling a knock off product. The product in question is the $30 CableBox Mini designed by BlueLounge. What Disdus is selling is an identical product made by another company, purporting to be BlueLounge’s CableBox Mini. Being the fiery personality that he is, Budiman immediately launched into a tirade about the Groupon’s practices. Naturally we went directly to Groupon Indonesia to find out its side of the story.

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Groupon Indonesia CEO Ferry Tenka Talks About Mobile, Growth, and Oliver Samwer

At Groupon’s press conference for its second birthday celebrations, we spoke to Ferry Tenka, CEO of Groupon Indonesia about his views on the e-commerce industry, the rapid adoption of mobile devices in the country, as well as Groupon’s lead in the daily deals market in Indonesia and his admiration of Rocket Internet co-founder and former head of Groupon’s International operations Oliver Samwer.

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Groupon Indonesia Rayakan Ulang Tahun Kedua, Bagi-Bagi Hadiah

Pada hari Selasa kemarin, Groupon Indonesia mengumumkan perayaan ulang tahun mereka yang kedua dan mengundang media untuk mendiskusikan angka terbaru, pencapaian, serta untuk memperluas informasi tentang perusahaan dan bisnis mereka. Ulang tahun ini merayakan asal muasal perusahaan ini yang dimulai sebagai tiruan Groupon bernama Disdus, yang kemudian diakuisisi oleh Groupon sendiri pada bulan April 2011. Groupon membagikan berbagai voucher dan penawaran spesial selama sat bulan untuk menyambut ulang tahun mereka, yang sebenarnya jatuh pada tanggal 10 Agustus.

Groupon Indonesia Celebrates Second Anniversary, Gives Away Prizes

On Tuesday Groupon Indonesia announced its second anniversary celebration and invited members of the press to discuss the latest numbers, achievements, and milestones, as well as to expand the awareness of the company and its business. The anniversary recognizes the origin of the company which started out as a Groupon clone called Disdus, which was acquired by Groupon in April 2011. The company is handing out vouchers and special deals throughout the month to celebrate its birthday, which actually falls on August 10.

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The Treehouse: Internet Hopes and Hypes

[Editor’s note: The infamous Treespotter has always been an astute and sharp observer of what is going on in Indonesia. Beginning today, The Treehouse at DailySocial will be host to Treespotter’s public thoughts and remarks with regards to technology, enterprise, startups, and the media. As Treespotter is not an employee of DailySocial his views and comments may not necessarily reflect that of DailySocial. Regardless, we are thrilled to have his column. Welcome to The Treehouse.]

There’s an interesting piece from the BBC – on Google’s increased attention on Asia – the shifting gravity as BBC puts it. The article itself didn’t mention Indonesia, it was mostly about China. Google got kicked out of China for doing the right thing. For many foreign players, China is an increasingly competitive market, true on the internet just as it’s true in textile: China now outsource clothes manufacturing to Vietnam. If you think textile was worrying, this is a whole different league.

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This Week’s Dailylicious Recap

This week had been a busy week in the technology industry in Indonesia, some brief info we entered into Dailylicious. For those of you who have not had time to read DailySocial and Dailylicious this week, here’s a little summary of the news that went to DS editorial team.

Earlier in the week, Monday June 13 2011, beginning with the launch of a new investment fund of the Bakrie group, led by Anindya Bakrie and called Nusantara Incubation Fund (NIF). With funding of about U.S. $ 10 million, NIF more focus to the early-stage companies and within three years will invest in approximately 30 companies. Aulia had talked to Hasan Yahya, fund manager of NIF, which express the difference Nusantara Nusantara Ventures and Incubation Fund and various other things.

On Tuesday, Ronald Isaac (co-founder of Tasterous) announced the release of Tasterous applications for Android devices and has been available for download directly from the Android Marketplace. If you are an Android device user and want to try it, please download via this link.

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Recap Dailylicious Minggu Ini

Minggu ini merupakan minggu yang ramai di industri teknologi di Indonesia, beberapa info singkat kami masukkan ke Dailylicious. Untuk anda yang belum sempat membaca DailySocial dan Dailylicious minggu ini, berikut sedikit ringkasan dari berita-berita yang masuk ke tim editorial DS.

Awal minggu, Senin 13 Juni 2011, diawali dengan diluncurkannya dana investasi baru dari grup Bakrie, dipimpin oleh Anindya Bakrie dan dinamakan Nusantara Incubation Fund. Dengan dana sekitar US$10 juta, NIF lebih fokus ke perusahaan-perusahaan early-stage dan dalam 3 tahun akan berinvestasi di kurang lebih 30 perusahaan. Aulia-pun sempat berbincang dengan Hasan Yahya, fund manager dari NIF yang mengutarakan mengenai perbedaan Nusantara Ventures dan Nusantara Incubation Fund dan berbagai hal lainnya.

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Will Air BnB Fever Hits Indonesia?

AirBnB is a new US’ phenomenal startup. Already it has interests many people in internet industry including investors. AirBnB was founded by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, established in August 2008, also a graduated from YCombinator, the legendary incubator. AirBnB already gets funded more than US$ 100 million from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), YCombinator, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and othe Vencture Capital huge names.

AirBnB’s ambitious plan is to create a global scale company and open branches in other countries, two main reasons why they need hundreds of millions of USD of fund from investors. The planning is currently on going by acquiring Accoleo which basically German based AirBnb’s clone and has now officially becomes AirBnb’s rep office in Europe.

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