struggling dreams

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Sit in front of me, a close friend facing real deep business problem.. He looks very stressful that he did not say anything during his visit to my office. He even refused when I offered him to order lunch… "I feel numb… don't have passion for food..", he said. I kinda aware of his situation from everyone else but him before. His group of companies which employ more than 200 people in Jakarta and more in Surabaya is going down. No major business case happened since last year so cash flows were running slow and slower. Today, he confirmed what I heard elsewhere, that he already decided to sell the company's 9 level building, as his last resort to keep the business running and all employee stay on board. Frankly, I have such similar problem… I'm not sure wether mine are worse or lighter than his. The outstanding debts are over 1,2 billions which is even me find it so hard to imagine that I have such a huge debt… probably you noticed that I am not a glamorous person who spend a lot on luxury stuff… I don't even have much of anything from my spending… but daily consumption. However, it is not my only concern… the bigger problem is to maintain rational and stay alive… for those who relies on me.

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Rizky datang ke kantor hari ini… Setelah sekian lama ga ketemu, kita membahas yang dulu pernah kita bangun namun kemudian berhenti atau lebih tepatnya tertunda pengerjaannya… ada beberapa portal yang niatnya dibangun dan dijadikan besar… Muswardi join ngobrol juga…

Salah satu portal itu adalah: 10yearsfromnow.com - Future ideas and vision aggregation site Posting ini sekalian promosi 10yearsfromnow.com, jadi kita welcome banget kalo ada yang berminat untuk nambahin mimpinya di situ… atau berminat untuk join dalam team kerjanya juga ok.

Ide 10yearsfromnow.com lahir di bakoel koffie barito… kira-kira hampir setahun yang lalu, pada saat kita lagi jenuh ngerjain program promo salah satu minuman dan balbalan.com (tidur juga sekarang). Bermula dari iseng nyari ide portal tetapi dimulai justru dari pencarian nama domain yang menarik. Pencarian nama domain yang menarik itu juga langsung diikuti dengan pengecekan availibility nya dengan bantuan N70 dan koneksi GPRS Indosat. Saya berpikir, sesuatu mengenai masa depan selalu menarik buat orang banyak, bahkan untuk sebagian orang menjadi sangat menarik.. bukan hanya inovasi saja melainkan trend atau konsekuensi dari perilaku manusia hari ini tentunya akan membawa perubahan di masa depan… contohnya: global warming…

Berimajinasi mengenai masa depan adalah bagian dari subconcious semua orang, begitulah premis dari ide portal ini.

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Does the title remind you of something? The phrase was shouted by Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire Movie (Gooding role part was a football player which represented by Tom Cruise as his agent). In this movie the phrase shouted first by Gooding to gain better respective cooperation from his agent (Cruise) and then he also ask his agent to yell it out as well; a mellodrama happened because at the very moment Cruise were losing every other client. Talk about showing the money… Muswardi and me agreed that we will strictly yell-out "show me the money!!!" to our potential clients during this hardbreathing moment. We think, it is our right to yell out such phrase since we always yelled by our vendor and partners. However… It will pass once we can have a normal mode moneyflow (not cashflow) to our pockets.

barusan cek alexa.com untuk liat rank web yang diliat orang Indonesia (traffic). Ternyata 10 besar adalah web bule alias web berbahasa bukan Indonesia. Padahal beberapa waktu yang lalu website berbahasa Indonesia seperti detik.com dan kaskus.us masih ada dalam 10 besar. Fenomena apa nih?

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ciao…

HKBP Trip = Hongkong Business Pleasure Trip Akhir April hingga awal Mei yang lalu kami berempat jalan-jalan ke Hongkon, Guangzhou dan Shenzhen untuk alasan bisnis sekaligus pleasure. ga terlalu lama juga jalan-jalannya, hanya lima hari yang padat dengan acara belanja dan sedikit acara bisnisnya… (more…)

Tempointeraktif.com - Seven Companies Ready to Form Palapa Ring Consortium

Sejak beberapa bulan terakhir, saya cukup sibuk untuk belajar network dan telecommunication business… adapun maksud dan tujuannya adalah untuk mengikutsertakan perusahaan kami (NET) dalam partisipasi aktif di Palapa Ring Project… sebuah megaproject prestisius yang melibatkan investasi hingga 13 triliun rupiah.. (more…)

netserver1.net.co.id mengalami cedera yang cukup berat sehingga harus menginap di rumah sakit. hardware failure, kalo menurut saya… karena setelah dicoba pake knoppix pun tetep ga bisa mount partisi…

kemudian mucul tulisan board management not responding….

gimana tuH???

The 3rd week of this February was period of new experiences for me as a businessman. Two gentlemen from Netherland visit us for exploration of mutual beneficial partnership, focused on opportunities in Palapa Rings Project.

They are : Hans Schwirtz from Draka Comteq bv

Theo van der Hagen from PIM bv also NTCS

These two guys were very nice and really professional in what they do. Both also already familiar with Indonesia. Even Theo previous experiences, assigned several times by KPN to do consulting services for Telkomsel and PT Telkom. and of course I represent my own company

There was no final result on this meeting since there was no minimum expectation set. We are happy to know each other, be friend and that would be the best foundation for next level opportunities. For me… there's significant progress going on. As in my objective, leverage my leadership to the next level.