Endeavor Indonesia — a community focusing on building a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem in Indonesia — held an Opening Ceremony of Endeavor ScaleUp Mindset on September 2, 2020, via online webinar with over 650 registrants. Carrying “From Startup to Scaleup: Entrepreneurial Journey of High-Impact Entrepreneurs” theme, this event shared an inspirational story of successful founders to audiences who came from the academic field.
As a part of Endeavor Global network that has successfully created more than 4.1 M jobs around the world, Endeavor Indonesia aims to spread positive impact in the economic and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Indonesia through High-Impact Entrepreneurship (HIE). As of September 2020, as many as 55 entrepreneurs from 42 companies have been selected and becoming Endeavor High-Impact Entrepreneur. They are assessed to have the potential to scale up their business and double the impact for Indonesia’s economic growth, high-quality jobs creation and the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Indonesia.
Prof. Ir. Nizam, M.Sc., DIC, Ph.D, Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia, stated,
“Higher education, as a producer of the next generation of positive leaders and developer of science, technology, and innovation is one of the main keys to the revival of the economy through an entrepreneurial spirit that needs to be encouraged, maintained and amplified; and it requires the efforts of all parties to move it. Therefore, HIE’s role and organization that support HIE like Endeavor are vital, because they influence other young founders or entrepreneurs through their success stories in building and scaling up their business.”
Endeavor Scaleup Mindset by Endeavor Indonesia presents seasoned entrepreneurs that have successfully scaled their business and created a high impact, as the source of knowledge. In this semester-long monthly webinar, audiences are expected to learn from real-life entrepreneurs on building and scaling up business through 6 different topic series: All About Fashion Business, F&B Business, Tech Business, Talent & Culture, Marketing & Branding, and Funding & Fundraising. Among speakers are Carline Darjanto (Cottonink), Rex Marindo (Foodizz.id), Irzan Raditya (Kata.ai), Arief Widhiyasa (Agate International), Yukka Harlanda (Bro.do) and Achmad Zaky (Init-6).
The webinar series is supported by eight institutions namely Universitas Ciputra, Universitas Airlangga, Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Universitas Bina Nusantara, Universitas Indonesia, and Tanoto Foundation, expected to contributes up to 1,000 students in total for each webinar session.
Vice-Rector for Finance and Logistics, Universitas Indonesia Vita Silvira, S.E., MBA. stated during the Opening Ceremony,
“It is a challenge for academics to keep up with the rapid development in the world of entrepreneurship as it is today and the Endeavor Scaleup Mindset program is expected to provide broad insights for the younger generation”.
Through this Opening Ceremony, audiences were given the opportunity to understand how two Endeavor High-Impact Entrepreneurs started their business and lead during the current crisis situation. Gibran Huzaifah, CEO of eFishery and Rama Raditya, Founder & CEO of Qlue explain how rewarding it is to be an entrepreneur and common mistakes to avoid as an entrepreneur in this recorded webinar below.
Endeavor Scaleup Mindset is a semester-long monthly webinar by Endeavor Indonesia with the mission of inspiring university students through sharing sessions by successful high impact founders and entrepreneurs in Indonesia. The students will understand the steps of establishing and scaling up in different types of businesses through six different topics.
Watch all 6 videos
All About Fashion Business with Carline Darjanto of Cottonink
Doing business with a good ethic in a sustainable way is what the fashion industry should look like. However, customers also need to be educated.
This is the first session out of a total of six webinar series that the program has, All About Fashion Business with Endeavor High-Impact Entrepreneur Carline Darjanto, CEO and Founder of Cottonink attended by more than 400 participants from 8 learning institution partners. Session’s recap in Instagram and full video below:
All About F&B Business Rex Marindo, Founder of Foodiz.id
Rex explained very thoroughly why F&B is a huge potential industry in Indonesia through his experiences creating Warunk UpNormal, Bakso Boedjangan, Nasgor Mafia.
This is the second session out of a total of six webinar series that the program has, All About F&B Business with Endeavor High-Impact Entrepreneur Rex Marindo, Founder of Foodiz.id attended by more than 180 participants from 8 learning institution partners. Session’s recap in Instagram and full video below:
All About Tech Business with Irzan Raditya, CEO & Co-Founder of Kata.ai
What are the things needed to create your own tech startup? Irzan firmly answered, “Having a framework, passion & perseverance is a must!”.
This is the third session out of a total six webinar series that the program has, All About Tech Business with Endeavor High-Impact Entrepreneur Irzan Raditya, CEO & Co-Founder of Kata.ai attended by more than 290 participants from 9 learning institution partners. Session’s recap in Instagram and full video below:
The Importance of Talent with Arief Widhiyasa of Agate International
Recruiting and managing talent has always been challenging job. From 18 people to 200, Arief’s entrepreneurial journey in building Agate International’s talent is an interesting story to learn.
This is the fourth session out of a total of six webinar series that the program has, The Importance of Talent with Endeavor High-Impact Entrepreneur Arief Widhiyasa of Agate International attended by more than 160 participants from 9 learning institution partners. Session’s recap in Instagram and full video below:
Marketing & Branding with Yukka Harlanda of Brodo
Familiar with the term Brodo Gentlemen? Yukka, through his Brodo footwear, manages to perfectly execute all aspects of marketing and branding until it became the top of mind brand in their field.
This is the fifth session out of a total of six webinar series that the program has, Marketing & Branding with Endeavor High-Impact Entrepreneur Yukka Harlanda of Brodo attended by more than 300 participants from 10 learning institution partners. Session’s recap in Instagram and full video below:
Funding & Fundraising with Achmad Zaky, Founder of Init 6 & Bukalapak
As the founder of one of Indonesia’s unicorns, Bukalapak, Zaky’s knowledge about fundraising is unquestionable. He shared his pieces of knowledge to answer audiences’ burning questions.
This is the sixth session out of a total of six webinar series that the program has, Funding & Fundraising with Endeavor High-Impact Entrepreneur Achmad Zaky, Founder of Init 6 & Bukalapak attended by more than 300 participants from 10 learning institution partners. Session’s recap in Instagram and full video below:
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