Kemana.com has been building buzz since early this year and on the website they counting down to May 2010 as their launching date. By the end of May, they changed the frontpage and now they claiming April 2010 as their launching date. After June 2010, they’re still not launching anything so i lost interest, until today when i randomly visit their website and there they are, launched.

Kemana.com was founded by Chris Benz (pictured left), an entrepreneur from New York who also founded CraftNetwork.com back in 2005. The reason they operate Kemana.com in Indonesia? I have no idea, but whatever it is it’s not because there’s no competition here. We have plenty of competition in the e-commerce/marketplace area, actually we have too many of them, but then again there’s no such thing as having too many competition.

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Ketika saya pikir sudah banyak online store bertebaran dimana-mana, ternyata masih ada yang sedang bersiap untuk muncul ke permukaan. Kemana.com, sebuah online store yang dalam tahap persiapan akhir mengumumkan di websitenya bahwa mereka akan siap meluncur April 2010 mendatang.

Mungkin masih lumayan segar di ingatan anda bahwa Plasa.com, online store milik Telkom, juga direncanakan untuk launching bulan ini, Maret 2010. Dengan rentang waktu launching yang tidak terlalu jauh berbeda tentu menjadi keunikan tersendiri. Waktu launching memang penting, harus bisa memanfaatkan momentum yang pas dan merupakan pukulan tersendiri bagi kompetitor yang sedang sama-sama bersiap launching.

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