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The Founder Institute has extended the Founder application deadlines for Paris, Singapore and Denver based on multiple qualified applicant requests. The Los Angeles semester is now closed, since sessions are starting next week. If you have been accepted into any of the semesters, please complete the requirements to reserve your spot in the program.

Paris and Singapore applications are due next Sunday, March 7th. Denver applications are now due on Sunday, April 4th. If you have not done so already, take a moment to apply to Paris, Singapore and Denver. More news on these locations and Mentors will be announced over the next couple of days.

Good luck!

SINGAPORE, February 8th, 2010 – Silicon Valley-based The Founder Institute, a four-month training and mentoring programme for technology entrepreneurs, announces its first-ever Spring 2010 semester for Singapore. With this expansion, the Institute will be the first Silicon Valley mentoring program in Singapore, and will now be on pace to graduate over 700 founders creating over 500 companies per year in nine cities worldwide.

The Founder Institute has appointed Singapore-based venture advisory and investment firm Battle Ventures, who is partnered with iAxil, the venture accelerator arm of Ascendas, to jointly bring their programme to Singapore and Southeast Asia-based entrepreneurs.

Run by founders for founders, this unique mentoring program nurtures aspiring and current high-tech entrepreneurs and employs a unique, team-work oriented ecosystem to foster the establishment of new start-up ventures. The programme also allows a small amount of equity to be shared amongst all participants in the
companies formed – including the experienced mentors who help grow the new businesses.

“We have discovered a formula to help passionate founders create meaningful and enduring companies in different markets around the world,” says Adeo Ressi, CEO of TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute. “We leverage leading social science methods to identify top talent, and then we offer an intense start-up curriculum focused on teamwork and guidance from leading local and global CEOs. Our unique approach has allowed the Institute to scale almost ten times larger than comparable incubators or accelerators.”
“iAxil is committed to fostering a nurturing and vibrant start-up environment that is vital to spawning innovative high-tech start-ups with the global potential and appeal,” says Mr Tan Yew Chin, Director of iAxil and CEO of Ascendas Land (Singapore). “The iAxil team of senior incubator managers will combine their
business skills; domain expertise and start-up experience with our wide network of partners to help graduates from the Founder Institute Mentoring Programme jumpstart their ventures.”

During the semesters, local aspiring and current entrepreneurs can gain access to founders and CEOs of world-renown companies, such as Philip Kaplan, Co-Founder of Blippy, Jeff Stewart, Founder and CEO of Urgent Career, Pete Deemer, Co-Founder of Scrum Training Institute, Dr. KF Lai, Co-Founder and CEO of Buzzcity and Jared Morgenstern, Product Ninja of Facebook as mentors amongst others.

“One of the greatest problems facing local entrepreneurs is the lack of credible and experienced mentors to help guide and advise them,” said Jeffrey Paine, Managing Partner at Battle Ventures. “With this programme, our entrepreneurs now have access to founders who have successfully created and run multiple start-ups
themselves and who are best placed to advise them.”

Applications for early acceptance into the Singapore semester are due on February 15th, 2010, with the final application deadline on February 28th. Anyone starting a technology company or with a dream to launch an innovative business in Singapore is invited to apply at http://www.founderinstitute.com/apply/11.
The Singapore Founder Institute mentoring programme is administered by iAxil, and is supported by SPRING Singapore under the Incubator Development Programme (IDP).

Yahoo! is hiring… Aren’t you interested? You’ll be working alongside these cool Indonesian dudes at Yahoo! office in Suntec City Singapore office.

There’s 3 openings as of now :

1. Lead QA for Yahoo! Mobile in Asia
2. Mobile Engineer (Apps) for Yahoo! Social Products
3. Mobile Engineer for Yahoo! Social Products

Cheers,

Andy

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Friends of MobileMonday Indonesia,

Please use this rare opportunity and attend the first ever Mobile Marketing Association Briefing on Mobile Marketing Opportunity in Indonesia, brought to you through collaboration among Mobile Marketing Association, Frost & Sullivan, MobileMonday Indonesia, M-Stars, and Bubu.com. Meet with all the major mobile marketing players in Indonesia, the telcos, case studies from brands (Axe and Green Sands), learn the latest technology in mobile marketing (augmented reality?) and more..

The Briefing will take place at:

• Date: Thursday, 12 November 2009
• Time: 14.00 – 17.00
• Place: Hotel Mulia (Ballroom 1)
  (co-located with Frost & Sullivan Indonesian Telecoms International Summit 2009)

If you are in the mobile advertising business, coming from an agency or a brand looking to know more about mobile marketing, make sure you did not missed the opportunities.

Seats are very limited and we are almost at full house. See you there!

Hi All : A note from our friend Alan Quayle which might interest you.

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Alan Quayle

“Hi, my name is Alan Quayle, on my weblog, www.alanquayle.com/blog, you can see I’ve been writing about the importance of application developers to operators for several years.  I recently presented on why operators need developers: (click here)

I’m helping the leading SDP supplier identify application developers that should be part of its solution to operators.  Local applications are important to mobile and broadband operators, because:

a) its just easier for operators to work with a local developer

b) local developers better understand the subtleties of their culture to create better applications

Please let me know and if you’re deployed with an operator.  I’ll put it into a list and recommend to the supplier they need to partner with you to win deals in your country.  I hope it generates some business for you.”

If you remember Christopher Billich from Infinita, Japan. He visited us during MobileMonday Indonesia launch on December 2007 sharing the great things about mobile industry in Japan. You can still grab his slides “Mobile 2.0 and Next Generation of Mobile Applications” here.

Christopher Billich when presenting at MobileMonday Indonesia launch, Dec 2007

Infinita have just released three new reports on the top mobile social networking services in Japan. Without a doubt, all three – mobagetown, GREE and mixi - are doing some incredibly cool things in terms of service design, strategy and business model that are highly relevant to social networking plays, advertisers/brands, agencies, carriers and mobile games studios/publishers trying to figure out the SNS equation on mobile anywhere.

mobagetown Research Report (V2.0) – 206 pages

“Social Networking, Games and Avatars: The Incredible Success Story of
Japan’s No. 1 Mobile Portal”
Info: http://infinita.co.jp/en/research/mobagetown_research_report_v20.html
Samples: http://www.slideshare.net/cbillich/mobagetown-research-report-v20

Mobile GREE Research Report (V1.0) – 180 pages
“Rags to Riches: GREE’s Transformation into a Top Player”
Info: http://infinita.co.jp/en/research/mobile_gree_research_report_v10.html
Samples: http://www.slideshare.net/cbillich/mobile-gree-research-report-v10

mixi Mobile Research Report (V2.0) – 111 pages
“Going Mobile: Japan’s Most Successful Social Networking Service on the Big Small Screen”
Info: http://infinita.co.jp/en/research/mixi_mobile_research_report_v20.html
Samples: http://www.slideshare.net/cbillich/mixi-mobile-research-report-v20

All three are priced at US$ 3,000 each for a company license; they also distribute them as a bundle for US$ 6,750:
Info: http://infinita.co.jp/en/research/mega_bundle.html

Our friends in PuddingMedia is looking into establishing a team in Jakarta, Indonesia. 2 positions are open, i.e. Business Development manager and Advertising Sales manager. If interested, feel free to directly contact them. Details of the jobs are below, or you can browse to http://puddingmedia.com/en/company/jobs

Business Development Manager Indonesia

Job Post 301

A Business Development Manager is crucial to generating new business and bringing in new clients. The role of Business Development Manager involves seeking out leads for new business, building up relationships with potential clients and responding to tender documents. A Business Development Manager is also closely involved in the pitch process.

Key attributes of a Business Development Manager:

1. Good negotiation, communication and social skills
2. Excellent people management technique
3. Understanding of the tendering and pitching process
4. The experience of networking and entertaining clients
5. An innovative thinker
6. Good understanding of the commercial world
7. Understanding of mobile operators structure and practices
8. Knowledge of on-line publishing world
9. Excellent business English

Responsibilities of a Business Development Manager:

1. To source new leads
2. Research new business opportunities
3. Analyze market trends
4. Attend events and evening functions to meet potential clients
5. Organize and lead the pitching process
6. Monitor tendering opportunities and liaise with tendering publishers

We are looking for manager with experience in working for PT Telkomsel, PT Indosat or PT Excelcomindo; or experience working for a CP in Indonesia.

Position is based in Jakarta, Reports to Head of Business Development.

Click here to send CV

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Advertising Sales Manager Indonesia

Job Post 302

An Advertising Sales Manager is crucial to generating revenue and bringing in new clients. The role of Advertising Sales Manager involves seeking out leads for new advertisers, building up relationships with brands and agencies and preparing campaign proposals. An Advertising Sales Manager is closely involved in the pitch process.

Key attributes of an Advertising Sales Manager:

1. Good negotiation, communication and social skills
2. Excellent people management technique
3. Understanding of the tendering and pitching process
4. The experience of networking and entertaining clients
5. An innovative thinker
6. Good understanding of the brand world
7. Understanding of digital media
8. Experience selling display advertising campaigns
9. Excellent business English
10. Excellent sales skills

Responsibilities of an Advertising Sales Manager:

1. Build relationships with brands and agencies
2. Source new leads
3. Research new business opportunities
4. Organize and lead the pitching process
5. Book advertising campaigns

We are looking for manager with experience in working for a major advertising agency, or experience working for a large on-line publisher, with the ability to think strategically and offer unique advertising solutions to some of the largest advertisers in Indonesia.

Position is based in Jakarta, and Reports to Head of Advertising.

Click here to send CV

This year, Indonesia is honored to have BioLocate shortlisted as Top 20 Finalist and invited to present in MobileMonday Peer Awards 2009 in Barcelona. The team from BioLocate unable to make it to Barcelona due to the short notice, but they are managed to make a short video presentation and was playbacked in front  of the jury in Barcelona. Although BioLocate did not win, I am happy that we are the only representative from South East Asia to make it to the final.

BioLocate at Peer Awards 2009

The Mobile Peer Awards is a wonderful event, attended by estimated 1000 audience and was opened by keynote from Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Markets at Nokia and Member of the Nokia Group Executive Board. We have audience from all over the world, including developers, startups, venture capitals, media, and government officials. I met a big team from Malaysian MDEC, but unable to find anyone else from Indonesia (or Indonesia government … well, maybe next year we’ll send official invitation).

For those of you who would like to know how the finalists “wow” the jury during Peer Awards, I would like to share a video of Unkasoft, one of the audience favorite doing all the tricks (including “Tiger Jump”) to visualize their solution within the strict 3 minutes pitch. Enjoy!

Congratulations to PT BioLocate Indonesia with the application FIREANTS which passed the first round of MobileMonday Global Peer Awards. A total of 163 entries submitted from around the world which has now been shortlisted to 43 nominees, including the Indonesia’s bioLocate, and other heavy weight contenders such as aka-aki (Berlin), fring (TelAviv), Getjar (Lithuania), Mocospace (Boston), Nimbuzz (Amsterdam), Palringo (London), SoonR (Silicon Valley), and WorldMate (Atlanta). The jury are now sitting in to select the top 20 finalist which will be invited to do a live presentation in Barcelona on February 16, 2008 in front of international audience.

The competition for top 20 are quite tough, however I’m quite confident bioLocate can steal jury’s attention as the idea is quite unique as compare to the others. Who need more IM client? We want something new, innovative and relevant to our mobile life. And I put my vote behind bioLocate! BTW the top 20 list will be announced on January 26, 2009 (Chinese New Year!)

To Pak Dien, Pak Hindra & bioLocate team. Congratulations from MobileMonday Indonesia Team!
I am sure to see you in Barcelona!

Head here to see the annoncement : http://www.mobilepeerawards.com/

IFS ERP Consultant is required with the following requirements :

• Opportunity for working in Full Time and/or Project Basis.
• Project location will be in Jakarta, Indonesia.
• Minimum 3 years of experience, added value if have prior engagement in pharmaceutical/manufacturing sector
• Excellent skill in any of Java/PLSql/Centura/C/C++
• Extensive use of RDBMS : Oracle/Sql Server/MySql in programming
• Familiar with modelling/case tools
• Familiar with 3 tier programming methodology
• Familiar with Unix/Linus OS

Interested candidate can send email to vacancy[at]aegisone.asia.