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Startup fintech IDN jaring segmen institusi pendidikan - ANTARA
Proses pendaftaran siswa atau mahasiswa yang semula bisa memakan waktu 1-2 hari karena proses dokumentasi yang panjang, bisa dipersingkat jadi 15 menit saja
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Perusahaan rintisan (startup) fintech InfraDigital Nusantara (IDN) menjaring segmen pasar institusi pendidikan dengan membuka layanan pembayaran pendaftaran sekolah yang juga bertujuan memudahkan proses penerimaan siswa/mahasiswa baru dalam masa darurat COVID-19.“Dengan PPDB dan PMB secara daring, proses pendaftaran siswa atau mahasiswa yang semula bisa memakan waktu 1-2 hari karena proses dokumentasi yang panjang, bisa dipersingkat jadi 15 menit saja,” kata COO InfraDigital Nusantara Indah Maryani, dalam keterangannya di Jakarta, Jumat.
Indah mengatakan pihaknya membuka layanan PPDB (Penerimaan Peserta Didik Baru) dan PMB (Penerimaan Mahasiswa Baru) secara daring tanpa dipungut biaya untuk semua lembaga pendidikan baik yang telah bergabung dengan jaringan IDN maupun yang belum selama masa wabah COVID-19.
Awalnya fintech yang dirintis sejak 2018 itu hanya menawarkan layanan tersebut kepada 350 lembaga pendidikan yang telah bergabung dan menerapkan pembayaran online melalui Jaringan IDN.
“Namun dalam perkembangannya animo Lembaga Pendidikan terhadap PPDB dan PMB online semakin besar, akhirnya kami buka juga untuk umum dan alhamdulillah ada puluhan sekolah lain yang baru bergabung karena butuh sistem PPDB secara daring ini apalagi di saat wabah seperti ini,” katanya.
Teknisnya, lembaga pendidikan melakukan validasi atas data siswa/mahasiswa melalui dokumen yang diunggah.
Selanjutnya siswa atau mahasiswa bisa melakukan pembayaran pendaftaran melalui chanel Jaringan IDN, misalnya Indomaret, Alfamart, Tokopedia, Gojek, dan lain sebagainya.
Puluhan sekolah dan universitas tersebut menggunakan link khusus yang terintegrasi dengan websitenya, bahkan dapat melakukan pembayaran online di berbagai channel tersebut.
“Orang tua juga dapat melihat status pendaftaran dan tagihannya melalui aplikasi Jaringan IDN,” katanya.
CEO InfraDigital Nusantara Ian Mc Kenna berharap layanan ini dapat membantu sekolah-sekolah menerapkan PPDB secara daring dan ikut mendukung program pemerintah dalam mencegah penyebaran wabah COVID-19.
Salah satu sekolah yang telah menerapkan PPDB online melalui Jaringan IDN, yaitu SMK Manbaul Ulum Kabupaten Cirebon.
Dalam keterangannya Ketua Panitia PPDB SMK Manbaul Ulum, Dedi Manfaluthi, menyatakan sekolahnya terbantu dari sisi sistematika pendaftaran dan pendataan yang lebih rapi.
“Sekolah jadi lebih fleksibel di era digital ini dan tentunya ini sangat membantu orang tua dalam mengakses informasi PPDB dan layanan pembayaran online yang lebih variatif yang dapat dipilih oleh orang tua,” katanya.
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Space executive: Government can't save every startup but can do a lot - SpaceNews
Relativity Space VP Josh Brost: “The most impactful thing that government can do is actually go out and buy services from startups."
WASHINGTON — As space investors become more conservative during the current economic downturn, they are less inclined to fund long-shot ventures and more likely to support companies that have a government contract.
Even in today’s environment “there are still investors out there with capital that they’re looking to deploy toward great ideas,” said Josh Brost, vice president of business development and government affairs at Relativity Space.
But these investors are looking for more than just promising ideas. “What they want to see is if there is a government use case at the end of this,” Brost said April 30 on a webinar hosted by Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Relativity Space is a California-based startup that uses 3-D printing to manufacture small launch vehicles.
Pentagon officials have raised concerns about the economic impact of the pandemic on commercial suppliers, including space companies that depend on private investors and may not have enough cash to weather the crisis. The small space launch sector was identified as one of the most vulnerable.
Brost said government loans or direct aid can help bridge the gap for a few months but “the most impactful thing that government can do is actually go out and buy services from these startups,” he said.
With a signed government contract in hand, “then the startups can go back to their investors and say: ‘Now we know there is a use case for this and the government is going to be a big player in the future for us,’” said Brost. “We can raise capital off of that.”
Startups have trouble getting loans
The reality is that many startups in the space sector are struggling, said Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. The group has been lobbying to have rules changed that currently disqualify many startups from coronavirus relief loan programs because of how the Small Business Administration defines “small business.”
Most startups are funded by venture capital firms that typically invest in a portfolio of companies. To be eligible for the SBA loan program a business has to have fewer than 500 employees. When defining a small business, the SBA applies an “affiliation rule,” requiring companies to include in their worker count all the employees of companies with which they are “affiliated.”
CSF and other industry groups have raised this issue and the “government just hasn’t been responsive despite us addressing it and highlighting that it’s a major problem,” Stallmer said on the webinar.
DoD has taken actions to help the industry, said Stallmer. But many companies won’t survive unless the government changes the rule that makes venture funded startups ineligible for stimulus loans, he said.
“When startup companies get started, are commercial banks going to lend to them based on this great idea that they have? No. Banks are conservative lenders, so that is why we have relied so heavily on the venture community, and they have delivered for us,” said Stallmer.
As venture funds pull back, access to loans is essential, he said.
Foreign investment worries
The pandemic has fueled concerns at the Pentagon that companies that develop critical national security technologies and are now in financial stress could become targets of Chinese investors.
That has been an issue for years, said Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technology. But the current crisis has stirred new worries in the U.S. government about China taking advantage of fragile companies.
“China is very interested in space and its space sector is growing, it’s a national priority,” she said. But China’s own economy and space industry is under stress so the country will focus first on its own companies. “I think there is, has been and will continue to be Chinese interested in investing in space companies globally, as well as interest in investing in space companies in China.”
Christensen cautioned that the U.S. government should not move to completely shut out foreign investment because that could push companies to take technology developments offshore. “If you constrain investment into American companies, those companies then are incentivized or forced to either shut down or find investors elsewhere — and if they can’t do that as American companies, they will do it as European companies or as Japanese companies or as companies based in nations in the Middle East.”
A successful technology industrial policy “comes down to a focus on ensuring that we are retaining the U.S. advantage, which means more companies, more startups, more investment, a more robust venture ecosystem and a much more robust space startup ecosystem than any other country in the world.”
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How this startup built and exited to Twitter in 1,219 days - Jimmys Post
By the summer of 2016, Marie Outtier had spent eight years as a consultant advising media agencies and martech companies on marketing growth strategy.
Pierre-Jean “PJ” Camillieri started as a music software engineer before joining one of Apple’s consumer electronics divisions. Inspired by Siri, he left to start Timista, a smart lifestyle assistant.
When the two joined forces to co-found Aiden.ai, the combination was potent — one was a consummate marketer, the other, a specialist in machine learning. Their goal: create an AI-driven marketing analyst that offered actionable advice in real time.
Humans who manage ad campaigns must analyze vast amounts of numbers, but Outtier and Camillieri envisioned a tool that could make optimization recommendations in real time. Analytics are vast and unwieldy, so theirs was a no-brainer proposition with a market crying out for solutions.
The company’s first office was at Bloom Space in Gower Street, London. It was just a handful of hot desks and a nearby sofa shared with four other startups. That summer, they began in earnest to build the company. A few months later, they had a huge opportunity when the still 100% bootstrapped company was selected for Techcrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield competition.
Interviewed by TechCrunch, they explained their proposition: Marketers wanted to know where a digital marketing campaign was getting the most traction: Twitter or Facebook. You might need to check several dashboards across multiple accounts, plus Google analytics to compile the data — and even if you conclude that one platform is outperforming the other, that might change next week as users shift attention to Instagram, potentially wasting 60% of ad spend.
Aiden was intended to feel like just another co-worker, relying on natural language processing to make the exchange feel chatty and comfortable. It queried data from multiple dashboards and quickly compiled it into flash charts, making it easy to find and digest.
Eventually, instead of managing 10 clients, marketing analysts would be able to manage 50 using dynamic predictions as well as visualizations. Aiden incorporated Outtier’s expertise into its algorithms so it could suggest how to tweak a Facebook campaign and anticipate what was going to happen.
Was appearing at Disrupt a significant moment? “It was a big deal for us,” says Outtier. “The exposure gave us ammunition to raise our first round. And being part of the Disrupt Battlefield alumni gave us many meaningful networking and PR opportunities.”
A few weeks later the company had raised a seed round of $750,000. But not without difficulty. By this time Outtier was in the latter stages of pregnancy. Raising money under these circumstances was difficult, but, she says, “it can be done. It’s tougher than ‘normal circumstances.’ It’s a bit like running a marathon, but with a fridge on your back.”
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By the summer of 2016, Marie Outtier had spent eight years as a consultant advising media agencies and martech companies on marketing growth strategy.
Pierre-Jean “PJ” Camillieri started as a music software engineer before joining one of Apple’s consumer electronics divisions. Inspired by Siri, he left to start Timista, a smart lifestyle assistant.
When the two joined forces to co-found Aiden.ai, the combination was potent — one was a consummate marketer, the other, a specialist in machine learning. Their goal: create an AI-driven marketing analyst that offered actionable advice in real time.
Humans who manage ad campaigns must analyze vast amounts of numbers, but Outtier and Camillieri envisioned a tool that could make optimization recommendations in real time. Analytics are vast and unwieldy, so theirs was a no-brainer proposition with a market crying out for solutions.
The company’s first office was at Bloom Space in Gower Street, London. It was just a handful of hot desks and a nearby sofa shared with four other startups. That summer, they began in earnest to build the company. A few months later, they had a huge opportunity when the still 100% bootstrapped company was selected for Techcrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield competition.
Interviewed by TechCrunch, they explained their proposition: Marketers wanted to know where a digital marketing campaign was getting the most traction: Twitter or Facebook. You might need to check several dashboards across multiple accounts, plus Google analytics to compile the data — and even if you conclude that one platform is outperforming the other, that might change next week as users shift attention to Instagram, potentially wasting 60% of ad spend.
Aiden was intended to feel like just another co-worker, relying on natural language processing to make the exchange feel chatty and comfortable. It queried data from multiple dashboards and quickly compiled it into flash charts, making it easy to find and digest.
Eventually, instead of managing 10 clients, marketing analysts would be able to manage 50 using dynamic predictions as well as visualizations. Aiden incorporated Outtier’s expertise into its algorithms so it could suggest how to tweak a Facebook campaign and anticipate what was going to happen.
Was appearing at Disrupt a significant moment? “It was a big deal for us,” says Outtier. “The exposure gave us ammunition to raise our first round. And being part of the Disrupt Battlefield alumni gave us many meaningful networking and PR opportunities.”
A few weeks later the company had raised a seed round of $750,000. But not without difficulty. By this time Outtier was in the latter stages of pregnancy. Raising money under these circumstances was difficult, but, she says, “it can be done. It’s tougher than ‘normal circumstances.’ It’s a bit like running a marathon, but with a fridge on your back.”
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Smart home startup Josh.ai raises $11 million to offer a home assistant alternative to Alexa - TechCrunch
Directly taking on Google and Amazon generally seems to be an ill-advised strategy for a young startup. It’s even more complicated when you’re competing on the home assistants front, a technically-complex, capital-intensive future platform that both tech giants have dumped substantial sums into.
Over the past few years, the small smart home startup Josh.ai has attempted to do just that, capitalizing on public distrust of the big voice platforms to sell an intelligent assistant to users weary of sticking a Google or Amazon-owned microphone in their homes. The company has built its business catering to customers seeking professionally-installed pricey outfits of their home, costing upwards of $10,000 on the high-end.
The company just secured its largest funding round to date, an $11 million Series A round which brings the startup’s total funding to $22 million. A spokesperson for Josh.ai said their investors have asked not to be named, though he confirmed the round was led by corporate investors.
For people with an Echo Dot or Google Mini in their home, Josh.ai’s approach feels familiar. The platform boasts a number of third-party integrations so you can use the platform to switch off lights, turn on devices, play music, and answer some simple commands. Basically, the bulk of home-centric commands popular on Google Assistant and Alexa.
The startup recently introduced Josh Micro, its own take on the Echo Dot. It has a futuristic vibe and because it’s installed by professionals, users are privy to a sleek look with wires neatly tucked away inside walls. CEO Alex Capecelatro says their competitors in the professionally-installed space have been pushing wall-mounted screens with UIs that often aren’t updated and don’t age well. He hopes their more low-key display-free devices can keep less focus on the hardware and more attention on their software.
“Our philosophy is that you shouldn’t be talking to puck, it should feel fully immersive,” he says.
Capecelatro had originally seen the best path to existing alongside Google and Amazon as working with them and leveraging their platforms, but he soon found that not working with them proved to be the startup’s biggest asset.
“In terms of direction, what became really clear in the past three years was the importance of privacy,” Capecelatro told TechCrunch. “A lot of our clients are just people who care about their privacy, it’s part of every conversation.”
On the tech side, Capecelatro says the startup’s platform is designed around its own natural language processing stack so most voice requests can be processed locally thought the startup does leverage tech built by Google and Microsoft to handle speech-to-text processes. While the company uses anonymized data to improve its services, the startup has also introduced specific software features to keep privacy-focused users satisfied including their own take on a smart home incognito mode.
There are few silver bullets in smart home tech and robust third party support often leaves room for uncertainty, which in Josh’s case can mean the difference between lights turning on or staying off. Capecelatro says ensuring smooth compatibility with supported devices has been a pretty big focus for their engineering team.
“The more things we work with, the more things we have to QA and the more things that could be impacted,” he says.
While Capecelatro says that around 80-85% of their business goes to single family homes, he says the startup is starting to find business in commercial sectors, outfitting hotels and condo buildings.
“The reality is we’ve found is that the professional installed space is a really big market that the consumer companies don’t really think about,” Capecelatro says. “I think for us the likely future is that we’ll focus on areas where you have a professional installer in a non residential arena.”
The company says the pandemic has actually given their business a bump, with April being their best month of sales to date as home-owners stuck in their houses look to finally act on long-considered home improvement projects.
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Ada PSBB, Startup Ini Bantu Pendaftaran Sekolah Hanya 15 Menit - Liputan6.com
Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Perusahaan rintisan atau startup yang menawarkan solusi sistem pembayaran digital untuk institusi pendidikan, InfraDigital Nusantara, mengaku berhasil menggaet puluhan sekolah dan universitas di Tanah Air untuk bergabung menjadi anggota melalui jaringan IDN.
Kepala Operasional InfraDigital Nusantara, Indah Maryani, melihat berbagai cara dilakukan oleh sekolah maupun universitas agar pembayaran uang PPDB (Penerimaan Peserta Didik Baru) secara online.
Yang paling umum adalah membuat form online melalui Google Form atau melalui aplikasi pesan instan WhatsApp. Terlebih saat ini sedang ada wabah Virus Corona COVID-19.
Hal ini juga merespons Surat Edaran No 4 Tahun 2020, di mana Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan mewajibkan seluruh lembaga pendidikan tidak mengadakan PPDB yang melibatkan orangtua dan murid harus hadir ke sekolah.
Ini artinya seluruh lembaga pendidikan, baik sekolah, madrasah, universitas, maupun bimbingan belajar menerapkan PPDB secara daring. Namun, ada yang berbeda dari puluhan sekolah dan universitas yang telah bergabung menjadi anggota di jaringan IDN.
"Ini sebenarnya program baru kami di awal tahun 2020, di mana kami menawarkan PPDB gratis untuk semua lembaga pendidikan. Baik yang telah bergabung maupun belum, selama wabah COVID-19," kata dia dalam keterangan tertulis di Jakarta, Kamis (30/4/2020).
Ia menyebut awalnya hanya menawarkan program ini ke-350 lembaga pendidikan yang telah bergabung dan menerapkan pembayaran online melalui jaringan IDN. Tak disangka, animo lembaga pendidikan terhadap PPDB online begitu besar, sehingga akhirnya dibuka untuk umum alias non-anggota.
"Kami bersyukur ternyata ada puluhan sekolah dan universitas lain baru bergabung karena butuh sistem PPDB secara daring. Proses pendaftaran siswa atau mahasiswa yang tadinya bisa memakan waktu 1-2 hari dikarenakan proses dokumentasi yang panjang, bisa dipersingkat jadi 15 menit saja," jelasnya.
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Sementara itu, Kepala Eksekutif InfraDigital Nusantara, Ian McKenna menambahkan, sekolah atau pun universitas bisa melakukan validasi atas data siswa dan mahasiswa dengan dokumen yang diunggah.
Selanjutnya, mereka bisa melakukan pembayaran pendaftaran melalui channel jaringan IDN, misalnya Indomaret, Alfamart, Tokopedia hingga Gojek, sehingga lebih aman dan nyaman untuk orangtua dan siswa atau mahasiswa dalam bertransaksi.
Saat ditanya mengapa layanan baru ini digratiskan, McKenna hanya bilang sudah menjadi tanggung jawab bersama untuk saling membantu di masa sulit seperti sekarang, sebagai harapan bisa membantu sekolah dan universitas menerapkan PPDB online, serta ikut mendukung program pemerintah dalam mencegah wabah COVID-19.
"Puluhan sekolah dan universitas ini bisa menggunakan link khusus yang terintegrasi, yang website-nya mirip layanan pendaftaran di universitas-universitas besar, bahkan bisa melakukan pembayaran online di berbagai channel tersebut. Orangtua bisa melihat status pendaftaran dan tagihan lewat aplikasi Jaringan IDN," ungkap McKenna.
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Samsung, Nationwide, and GE just invested in A.I. startup Nexar - Fortune
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Agtech Startup Pivot Bio Lands $100M - Crunchbase News
Agriculture tech startup Pivot Bio has raised $100 million in a new round of funding, the company said Thursday.
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The Series C round was co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Temasek, according to a statement from the company. DCVC also participated in the round
The new funding will be used to scale its microbial nitrogen technology, which the Berkeley-based company says increases crop yields, and in turn, farmers’ revenues.
Instead of using synthetic nitrogen, farmers can apply the company’s product, Pivot Bio Proven, in-furrow when they plant their crops. As the roots grow in, the microbes cling onto the epidermis of the roots, forming somewhat of a symbiotic relationship, according to Pivot Bio’s website. The microbes feed off the exudates of the plant, and in turn provide nitrogen for the plant.
The company says with its cleaner nitrogen, farmers will have more consistent yields and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
“Pivot Bio is addressing one of the most difficult challenges facing agriculture in the 21st century – reducing dependence on damaging synthetic fertilizer while increasing crop yields and creating better outcomes for farmers,” DCVC managing partner Matt Ocko said in a statement.
“DCVC led Pivot Bio’s early rounds and remains a major backer because we believe the company will truly transform global agricultural practices,” he said.
The company raised its Series B in October 2018 and its Series A in March 2016, according to Crunchbase.
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Cara Startup di Bali Bertahan dari Badai Covid-19 - Tagar News
Denpasar - Bali menjadi salah satu destinasi wisata di Indonesia yang paling terkena dampak wabah pandemi virus corona Covid-19. Tak hanya industri perhotelan, sejumlah industri turunannya pun terkena imbas anjloknya kedatangan turis lokal dan mancanegara. Salah satunya adalah perusahaan-perusahaan di industri digital seperti perusahaan rintisan atau startup.
Di tengah badai corona, perusahaan startup harus mencari cara untuk mempertahankan bisnis. Bananaz.co, salah satu startup di pelayanan industri pariwisata menurut CEO-nya, Rizki Diansyah,harus melakukan penyesuaian di segala bidang untuk tetap bertahan.
Berdasarkan Alvara Research Center (2020), masyarakat Indonesia menempatkan liburan atau pergi ke tempat wisata menjadi peringkat pertama pasca berakhirnya pandemi corona
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"Banyak yang terdampak pastinya. Untuk itu, kami tengah melakukan proses penyesuaian secara bertahap melihat kondisi pariwisata selama pandemi corona," ucap Rizki saat dihubungi Tagar, Kamis 30 April 2020.
Prinsip layanan bananaz sebenarnya in line dengan social distancing. Dimana pengguna #bananazbali tidak perlu datang ke base kami untuk sewa dan ambil antar motor. Cukup pakai apps atau web dan kita akan kirimkan motornya
Seorang turis asing di atas motor sewaan dari startup baru di Bali Bananaz.co. (Foto: Tagar|Nila Sofianty).
Menurutnya, dampak pandemi corona, banyak turis yang tidak bisa masuk ke Bali. Untuk itu, Bananaz.co melakukan beberapa penyesuaian pada aplikasi dan web. "Masih dalam proses dan akan segera jalan," tutur Rizki.
Beberapa hal sederhana dilakukan tim Banana Bali, seperti membersihkan motor dengan disinfektan yang akan sering di pegang pengguna motor. Hal itu agar pada saat mengantarkan motor ke penyewa, aman dari risiko penyebaran virus corona.
"Prinsip layanan bananaz sebenarnya in line dengan social distancing. Dimana pengguna #bananazbali tidak perlu datang ke base kami untuk sewa dan ambil antar motor. Cukup pakai apps atau web dan kita akan kirimkan motornya," jelasnya.
Rizki mengaku, meski ikut merasakan muramnya industri pariwisata Bali akibat kerasnya benturan pandemo corona, tetap bersemangat dan yakin bahwa cuaca cerah akan menerpa wisata Bali usai corona berlalu.
Ia mengutip Alvara Research Center (2020) yang menyebutkan, masyarakat Indonesia menempatkan liburan atau pergi ke tempat wisata menjadi peringkat pertama pasca pandemi corona berakhir. Responden yang memilih liburan atau pergi ke tempat pariwisata sebesar 21,8 persen, mengalahkan kegiatan bekerja dan bersilaturahmi dengan keluarga.
"Jadi bisa disimpulkan, ini hanya masalah waktu saja. Setelah ini layanan kita akan kembali seperti semula. Dengan beberapa keunggulan jasa #bananazbali, Insya Allah kita akan menjadi pilihan tepat untuk turis lokal dan mancanegara di Bali," tutur Rizki.
Ia mengungkapkan timnya masih tetap semangat. Bahkan di bulan Maret ada program #bananazcare, bantuan bagi para turis yang kurang beruntung dan tidak bisa balik ke negara-nya karena corona.
"Kita melakukan kegiatan sosial melalui apa yang kita bisa lakukan. Termasuk kita bantu sewakan motor tanpa biaya, supaya mereka bisa menekan pengeluaran, tetapi masih bisa melakukan kegiatan sehari hari untuk memenuhi keperluan pribadi," ujar Rizki.
Startup yang menggelar soft launchingnya di Bali bulan Agustus 2019, malah membantu para turis yang masih berada di Bali atau yang tidak bisa pulang kembali ke negaranya karena kebijakan lockdown atau hal lain. Bahkan bantuan tim bananaz.co ini sangat diapresiasi oleh para turis dengan mengirimkan email dan pesan singkat ucapan terima kasih untuk program Bananazcare.
Seperti yang ditulis Victoria, seorang turis asing. "Saya sangat berterimakasih sebagai seorang warga negara asing di masa sulit pandemi corona dengan segala bantuan Anda, mendapat pinjaman motor yang luar biasa bagus dan baru. Selain itu tepat waktu dan pelayanan sempurna," ucapnya.
Victoria mengaku mendapatkan semua yang dibutuhkan. "Karena pertolongan Anda, saya bisa berhemat uang. Karena saya perlu berhemat. Apa yang Anda lakukan kepada saya membuktikan bahwa dunia tetap berdetak dan kita semua bisa saling membantu satu sama lain," katanya lagi."
Perusahaan rintisan ini menjadi salah satu contoh startup digital seperti yang diharapkan East Ventures (EV) – investor startup tahap awal pertama di Indonesia. EV telah beroperasi sejak 2009 dan telah berinvestasi di 170 startup digital di Asia Tenggara, 130 diantaranya lahir dan beroperasi di Indonesia.
Data yang dikumpulkan dalam EV-DCI bukan ditujukan sebagai sebuah kesimpulan tetapi sebagai titik awal yang memulai fase berikut dari transformasi digital Indonesia
Menurut Co-founder & Managing Partner, East Ventures, Willson Cuaca dalam siaran persnya yang diterima Tagar, Kamis 30 April 2020, industri digital adalah perekonomian yang berbasis penguasaan teknologi dan pengetahuan (knowledge based economy), bukan bertumpu pada penguasaan aset. Ini membuka kesempatan yang sama bagi perusahaan-perusahaan rintisan untuk mengambil peran sentral dalam membangun ekonomi digital Indonesia bersama korporasi raksasa dan perusahaan multinasional.
Menurut Wilson, perkembangan ekonomi digital yang cukup pesat memberikan dampak bagi perekonomian nasional, termasuk tenaga kerja Indonesia.
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East Ventures Digital Competitiveness Index (EV-DCI) adalah upaya untuk memetakan dampak perkembangan ekonomi digital di seluruh Nusantara, seperti startup. Ekonomi digital menjanjikan inklusivitas, pemerataan peluang ekonomi bagi seluruh penduduk Indonesia. Indeks ini adalah indikator dari keberhasilan industri digital dalam mewujudkan janjinya. Data yang dikumpulkan dalam EV-DCI bukan ditujukan sebagai sebuah kesimpulan tetapi sebagai titik awal yang memulai fase berikut dari transformasi digital Indonesia.
"Kami ingin mendorong semua pemangku kepentingan untuk ikut terlibat dan turut menikmati dampak positif ekonomi digital,” ucap Wilson.[]
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While deeply fulfilling, establishing and growing a startup poses serious dangers for your mental health. During the expansion stage, a founder will often face brutally long workweeks, pressure from different sources to manage the startup while raising funding and the stress of having to make many decisions — all at the same time.
Unfortunately, there remains a serious stigma surrounding mental health in entrepreneurial circles. Sometimes, these issues are discussed implicitly under the framework of founder burnout or work-life balance. Perhaps you know, for instance, that a founder who is burning out may go through different stages. The key is to identify when you are on the verge of burnout and take steps to address it immediately.
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A Case Study
Mike founded a quickly growing, direct-to-consumer startup in the midstage of expansion, valued at just under $7 million, when he hired me as a coach. He already went through a couple of rounds of fundraising, and his Board of Directors consisted largely of investors from those early rounds. Mike retained about 32 percent of the equity, and those on the Board had more than 57 percent.
He brought me in partially because he wanted to figure out what to do. Mike wanted to shift from the rapid growth stage of burning cash to seize market share, focusing instead on more gradual growth funded by revenue rather than investment capital to get to profitability. His Board of Directors overwhelmingly wanted him to keep growing the company rapidly.
Although either position might have merit, the underlying challenge that Mike experienced was a sense of growing anxiety, even dread, over asking more investors for money. While there’s extensive advice for entrepreneurs about asking fundraising and fear of rejection, it often doesn’t address underlying complications from clinical anxiety and depression.
Signs That Shouldn’t Be Ignored
Mike eventually started going to therapy and taking psychiatric medications. However, while I strongly urged him to reveal his mental health condition to the Board, he refused to do so, insisting that it wouldn’t support him and might even question his competence to lead the company. Mike shared with me a number of instances when he saw other startup founders hide their mental-health challenges due to fears about problematic reactions by Board members.
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As someone struggling with anxiety myself, I empathized with his concerns, but thought he was taking it too far. His fears fit with his broader pessimism bias, an excessive perception of potential threats common for those with anxiety or depression.
Pessimism bias is one of the many dangerous judgment errors that result from how our brains are wired, what scholars in cognitive neuroscience and behavioral economics call cognitive biases. Fortunately, recent research in these fields shows how you can use pragmatic strategies to navigate these mental obstacles.
His pessimism did not serve him well. The Board continued to pressure him. Despite his wise decision to seek professional help, his anxiety and stress undercut his fundraising capacity. Since we did not yet have a close relationship, Mike had trouble accepting the uncomfortable information that his gut reactions were failing him.
Turning Point: Timing Matters
Pretty soon, Mike was close to burnout. At that point, when he told me he considered quitting, I finally convinced him to reveal his condition to the Board by asking him what he had to lose, and guess what? The Board expressed a great deal of support. Several members who pressured him revealed they did so because of their own anxiety. Namely, they felt fearful of larger competitors who might try to catch up to the early mover advantage held by the startup. They saw such scenarios happen way too often, and that’s why they were pushing for rapid growth fueled by investor capital.
These Board members suffered from pessimism themselves, taking it out on Mike, pushing him to his breaking point, and agreed to step back from their fundraising goals, focusing instead on more gradual growth.
Nevertheless, the story did not have a happy ending. Badly burnt out, Mike couldn’t go on to achieve even these goals. He lost his passion for the company and hated getting up for work. He thought he could carry on, but he couldn’t make it work no matter how hard he tried. He turned in his resignation letter and offered to sell his equity at a discounted price to the rest of the investors.
The company launched an extensive search for Mike’s replacement. Unfortunately, this person did not work out very well, as he lacked the credibility and branding that Mike had, which is so important in direct-to-consumer offerings. It didn’t help that many of the startup employees felt loyal to Mike’s leadership and vision. Most of them felt discontented with Mike’s resignation, blaming the Board, and many of them left in the subsequent weeks and months, further crippling the startup.
In the end, without Mike’s drive and guidance, the company foundered. A larger company that wanted to enter the space bought the startup at under $2.5 million, a fraction of its earlier valuation.
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Burnout in Hindsight
Part of the blame lies with me. Looking back, I believe I could have done a better job as a coach by supporting Mike’s intent in sharing his mental-health challenges with the Board. The whole fiasco could have been prevented with a timelier revelation. An earlier strategic shift to gradual growth would have solved the need for some of the fundraising efforts, thereby letting Mike focus on his passion of satisfying customers and building the brand, instead of forcing him to deal with his most hated task: soliciting investor cash.
I share this story, for which I acknowledge a degree of blame, with the hope that startup founders will take it to heart and influence key stakeholders to be more aware of and attentive to mental health. It should also serve as a cautionary tale for startup leaders wary of disclosing their mental-health struggles to major investors and Board members, as well as a warning to major investors and Board members to encourage founders to take care of their mental health as a major priority.
The Fight for Mental Health and Strength
In an increasingly disrupted and uncertain future, which will only breed more stress and anxiety, we cannot afford to lose talented startup founders by failing to pay attention to the dangers of mental-health challenges. Founders and employees alike need to encourage and model transparency around mental wellness, as well as training in how to spot and support colleagues in times of trouble, while fighting stigma at every turn.
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