things that I learnt from 1000startup ignition

Indonesia needs startups more than ever, with the current economic state and the unemployment rate. Government had been talking about the importance of entrepreneurship, and we can see startup as one of the form of entrepreneurship. Startups can play significant role in Indonesia’s economic growth, not only startsup can improve economy by creating more jobs and employment, but also improving economy dynamism by creating healthy business competition environment. Startup is unique in its nature to draws in the employment force, since it has a really broad scope and field, startup required many experts in different areas.

In startup it is necessary for the player to think creatively and innovatively, something that encouraged by very diverse community and environment, things that Indonesia already have. With a lot of startup company, it’s going to create a competition between startup. Healthy competition leads us to a lot of innovations and new ideas, which is good, considering Indonesia is still at the 71st rank out of 110 countries in Global Innovation Index.

Creating startup is not easy, it’s very rare a person can succeed in one try. Some of the founder might faced with some difficulties at the beginning, or in the middle, but not every body can survive until the end. If we want to create startup, the most important thing is to know what is the problem we want to solve. If we already know the problem, we need to know how we are going to solve it. Knowing the problem thoroughly also essential to solve the problem. Some startup founder might have experience failure because of the thorough problem comprehension failure.

Another important thing to note is to looking at competition differently. Sometimes unorthodox channel might be the right channel to pursue, and not all competition is a rivalry. As an example, ruangguru asked national government and regional government to work together and become an adding facility for student. With the cooperation between private and public sector, Indonesia development can hopefully be accelerating.