28 Mar 2019
How to Choose the Right Business Entity for Your Startup in Indonesia
Founders must choose a legal structure that supports investment, protects personal assets, and enables equity distribution, not just any business type.
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What the community has learned the hard way, written up from the talks at the meetups. The recordings themselves live in the video library.
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25 Apr 2019
How to Build a Due Diligence Checklist for Early-Stage Startups
Due diligence for early startups is methodical dirt digging: screen the business, map risks, and ask sharp questions to align founder and investor.
16 Apr 2020
How List Building and Community Engagement Outperform Paid Traffic for Early Startups
Owning an email list and a niche community beats renting platform traffic because you can follow up, educate, and refer without paying for each reach.
22 Agu 2013
How Indonesian Developers Can Build Successful Apps on Windows Phone with Microsoft and Nokia's AppCampus Program
Indonesian developers can access a free four-week acceleration program in Finland through Microsoft and Nokia's AppCampus to build market-ready apps wit…
25 Apr 2019
How Startup Founders Can Avoid Legal Pitfalls Before Seeking Investment
Founders must address co-founder agreements, IP protection, and shareholder registration to prevent due diligence failures.
25 Nov 2014
How to Validate a Startup Idea Before Building It: A Framework from Jakarta Digital Valley
A workshop at #StartupLokal Meetup v48 outlines a three-step model to test startup ideas before investing time in development, focusing on validation, t…
9 Apr 2011
What #StartupLokal Brought Home from Enterprise Ireland
In March 2011 Enterprise Ireland flew four #StartupLokal initiators to Dublin to see what a state agency does with a startup. A few weeks later one of its people stood up at the community's first birthday in Jakarta and told the room to think global and act local.
21 Apr 2016
How Founders Turn Failed Apps Into Global Startup Assets
Shinta Dhanuwardoyo shows why failed products, strong networks, and a global mindset matter more than early funding for Indonesian founders.
10 Feb 2021
How to Convert TAM, SAM, and SOM into Investor-Ready Startup Valuations
Founders must size their market and build financial projections before pitching, or risk running out of cash on bad math.
22 Feb 2024
How Defining the Customer Problem First Shapes a Startup's Pitch and Pivots
A founder's core task is defining the customer's problem with data, not building product, as a fish-feed case shows.
21 Apr 2016
Why Founders Should Stop Worrying About Idea Theft and Focus on Execution
Shinta Dhanuwardoyo explains why idea ownership is irrelevant, execution is what truly matters for startup success.
18 Jun 2020
How a Location-Based Marketplace Brings Indonesia's Traditional Vendors Online Without Requiring Them to Use Smartphones
Henry Suharja of titipku explains how a location-based marketplace and a network of young explorers help traditional market vendors sell online without…