IT-based entrepreneurship: my story

1. ITPreneurship
{ Budi Rahardjo
http://rahard.wordpress.com – http://budi.insan.co.id
Presented at ARKAVIDIA 2.0 – ITB – 30 January 2011

2. about
rahard

3. Too many hats to wear:
academician,
technopreneur,
writer, blogger,
musician,
food photographer,
… just a regular person
about rahard
http://gbt.blogspot.com
http://rahard.wordpress.com

5. Iqra Biomedical
Insan Infonesia
Indocisc
Digital Entertainment
artifacts

6. Exciting IT-time again
The second coming of IT boom
[after 2000 and its bust]

7. easy
requires minimal capital, but …
max in
human resources;
ideas;
passion;
persistence – never give up …
Starting up …

8. Plenty at global level
Rare at Indonesian level
Success stories

9. Important in economy
[need statistics here ...]
Is entrepreneurship
important?

10. But, NOT for everybody
Most people prefer stability
paycheck every month,
become civil servants, or so ...
That’s ok, but
be good at what you do
entrepreneurship

11. Can we teach entrepreneurship?
Yes!

12. But, difficult to create entrepreneurs
Even harder to create successful
entrepreneurs
can teach how to paint, but not all will
become maestro. Most will not!
10.000 hours experience
On becoming …

13. Here are … some ideas …
and stories …
too many opportunities

14. and so
the story goes …
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