Pengaruh Funding Kaskus Terhadap Ekosistem Startup di Indonesia

Kaskus menerima kucuran dana investasi dari GDP Venture beberapa waktu lalu memang sebuah berita yang bisa dibilang menakjubkan, bukan semata-mata karena agreement antara Kaskus-GDP Venture saja melainkan impact-nya ke ekosistem startup di Indonesia secara makro.

Rumor-pun tak bisa dihindari, beredar dengan cepat mengenai valuasi Kaskus yang mencapai $60 juta, $80 juta bahkan $100 juta USD. Kaskus sendiri tidak melakukan konfirmasi mengenai valuasi mereka ketika difunding oleh GDP, membuat banyak pihak makin penasaran.

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Tasterous Added 2 Technology Rockstar in Board of Directors

Tasterous, the most anticipated startup, launched by its founders Ronald Ishak and Deche Pangestu on Jakarta Ventures Night, Friday, March 18, 2011. Tasterous is a startup of photo sharing special for food lovers, where there will be a “food check-in” for its users. From here you probably can see who share the same taste of food, hang out, dining, and photo (of course) buddies.

Other than the launching, Ronald and Deche also announced the joining of two rockstar in technology industry especially in startup community as their Board of Directors. They are Selina Limman (CEO of Urbanesia) and also Ken Dean Lawadinata (CEO of Kaskus Networks), whose names are familiar to us especially if you are a constant reader of DailySocial.

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Interview with Martin Hartono on GDP and Kaskus’ Partnership

Last Wednesday Kaskus held a press conference to announce their partnership with Global Digital Prima (GDP) Venture. After DailySocial’s article on the partnership, below is DS’ interview with Martin Hartono, Director of GDP Venture about GDP’s opinion on Kaskus, their partnership, and what development the partnership will bring.

Disclosure: Daily Social is incubated by Merah Putih.inc and is part of GDP.

Translated by Nita Sellya

Wawancara dengan Martin Hartono Tentang Partnership Kaskus dan GDP Venture

Hari Rabu kemarin Kaskus mengadakan press conference untuk mengumumkan partnership dengan pihak Global Digital Prima (GDP) Venture. Setelah artikel DailySocial tentang berita partnership ini, berikut wawancara DailySocial dengan Martin Hartono, Director GDP Venture tentang pandangan GDP terhadap Kaskus, partnership mereka, serta perkembangan apa yang akan terjadi setelah pengumuman partnership ini.

Disclosure: DailySocial diinkubasi oleh Merah Putih Inc. dan merupakan bagian dari GDP

Kaskus Umumkan Partnership dengan GDP Venture

Bertempat di Kempinski Ballroom, Grand Indonesia, Kaskus dalam Press Conference-nya mengumumkan partnership dengan pihak Global Digital Prima (GDP) Venture, yang merupakan bagian dari Grup Djarum. Ungkapan partnership ini menepis anggapan ataupun rumor yang beredar bahwa Kaskus secara total diakuisisi oleh Grup Djarum. Di jajaran manajemen, tidak ada perubahan personel. Besaran nilai investasi yang dilakukan oleh GDP Venture tidak disebutkan (undisclosed amount).

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Kaskus Announced Their Partnership with GDP Venture

During its press conference at Kempinski Ballroom, Grand Indonesia, Kaskus announced its partnership with Global Digital Prima (GDP) Venture, part of Djarum Group, which began in January of this year. The announcement also served to deny the rumors that the popular forum had been acquired by Djarum. The amount of investment remains undisclosed and Kaskus remains an independent entity.

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JOBS: Marketing Communication Serta Copywriter di Kaskus

Untuk para pembaca DailySocial (DS), berikut info lowongan pekerjaan paling baru yang bisa dilihat, siapa tahu menjadi pekerjaan impian yang selama ini Anda cari. Info lowongan pekerjaan lengkap juga bisa ditemukan pada bagian kanan situs DS pada kolom Jobs @DailySocial.

Jika Anda ingin bekerja dan menjadi bagian dari komunitas terbesar di Indonesia? Well, ini dia, Kaskus sedang buka dua lowongan pekerjaan yang berhubungan dengan pemasaran serta penulisan.

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East Ventures closes the year with Disdus investment

East Ventures is not going to end this year without some serious announcement for their Indonesian portfolio, as we receive a press release from Jason Lamuda, CEO and co-founder of Disdus. Disdus launched in August 2010 –together with 2 other similar sites– is one of the biggest Groupon clone in Indonesia together with DealKeren as incumbent players in the collective commerce scene. Their partnership with Kaskus in October boost up their visibility and gained new users from the mammoth forum, and apparently their partnership with the people behind Kaskus is only getting better.

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11 Tahun Kaskus Dan Rencana Mereka Ke Depan

Postingan ini memang agak terlambat, seharusnya saya publish hari Sabtu lalu tepat ketika Kaskus berulang tahun untuk ke-11 kalinya. Ya, 11 tahun sudah Andrew Darwis terlibat di Kaskus sejak dia masih bersekolah di Seattle dan bersama ke-3 temannya membangun sebuah forum online untuk pemuda Indonesia di Amerika. Dulu Andrew Darwis mati2an membayar untuk server Kaskus dari gajinya sendiri dan meskipun belum mendapat banyak pemasukan namun Andrew tetap berusaha mempertahankan Kaskus agar tetap hidup.

Kini, 11 tahun kemudian, Kaskus adalah komunitas online terbesar di Indonesia dengan lebih dari 2 juta pengguna dan menghasilkan miliaran rupiah dari para advertiser. Dan Kaskus dibawah pimpinan Andrew Darwis (Founder, CTO), Ken Lawadinata (CEO) dan Danny Oei (CMO) sepertinya hanya akan terus meranjak naik menjadi salah satu landmark online untuk Indonesia.

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Kaskus is 11 years old and still rocking

Last Saturday, Kaskus celebrates its 11th birthday which they announced at our own SparxUp Awards 2010 Awarding Night event. Both CEO, Ken Lawadinata and founding CTO Andrew Darwis came to the event and tell a bit about how Kaskus started and its plans to the future now that the industry has grown a lot better than the time Kaskus was started.

Andrew started Kaskus while studying at Seattle with his two friends Ronald and Budi, although the last two founders left a few years later leaving Darwis with the unfortunate task of maintaining the forum and paying for servers. It was intended to be a forum for Indonesian students studying in the US. For a few years the forum gained significant number of loyal followers and members, and took shape into one of the biggest porn board for Indonesian internet users. When Indonesian government released the anti-porn policy in 2008, Darwis knew he would have to shut down the porn sub-forum and it was a hard decision leaving users in rage and threatening leaving Kaskus for good.

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