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!

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).

Happy New Year to you all… Opening the year, we will begin by revisiting the theme: mobile as the 7th mass media. A lot have changed since our first 2008 event on mobile mass media. Coming this January is a joint event about the upcoming trends, case studies, and opportunities in mobile media and new media.

The basic rules of brand building in the digital space are as important as they are for traditional forms of brand communications. Mavenix and MobileMonday Indonesia, supported by Mobile Marketing Association (Indonesia), are proud to present the first major seminar in 2010.

“New Year, New Media, New Ideas”

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 – that’s next week! And yes, it’s Tuesday.
Blitz Megaplex @ Pacific Place, 2pm – 5.30pm

Speakers are:

1. Andy Zain (MobileMonday Indonesia) – “Get more social and mobile: Mobile Social Networking in Indonesia case study”
2. Avi Marinstrauss (3GVision) – “QR Code creativity & technology: how brands can benefit from it”
3. Ashwin Puri (VuClip) – “Mobile video – new trend vs monetization”
4. Joerg Krahnert (NetBiscuits) – “The next generation mobile sites”
5. Michael Budi (AR&Co) – “Augmented Reality for branding – local case studies”

This event is geared towards our agency friends, brands, and content providers who are keen to explore the exciting and ever changing landscape of new media.

The seminar is FREE and seats are limited – RSVP is a must.

So please visit our website to register: http://www.mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

See you there!

MobileMonday Indonesia & Mavenix

Its exhibits profile will include:

• a wide range of ICT related product, equipment, services and business solutions and software
• a three days ICT FORUM focusing ICT Outlook 2010
• New Policies & Regulations, e-Government, ICT in Disaster Management, IT for Education, e-Learning, Broadband, Mobile & Wireless, Security and Storage, Digital Media

MobileMonday extends the invitation from the Organizer, so you and your colleagues are warmly welcome to the exhibition. Let’s use this opportunity share and exchange ideas with technical experts from around the world and find out suitable solutions to improve and increase your productivity and run your business process efficiently.

Visitors who pre-register their attendance online at www.ictindonesia.com under the VISITOR selection will stand a chance to win from a lucky draw and will also receive a free copy of ICT EXPO INDONESIA 2009 exhibition directory (Rp 50.000 value).

The Organizer, Pak Indra Putra, can be contacted at indra@ecmi.cc, should you need to ask more details and interested to display your products.

The MPA in Innovation is the same event we have all come to love. A global grassroots competition open to all MobileMonday chapters to nominate a local startup to eventually pitch in a full house of the industry’s influencers and decision makers in Barcelona, during the Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010.

The MobileMonday chapters will vote for their local most innovative startup. An international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts will select the 20 finalists from all the local chapter nominees to pitch at the event in Barcelona in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

But there’s more!

As a new challenge, this year’s awards are our first attempt at bringing together more ecosystem players. We have partnered with some of the most influential networks in mobile to deliver other award opportunities for all participating startups.

Other Mobile Premier Awards 2010:

• MPA in Marketing – The best startup in Mobile Marketing
• MPA in Entertainment – The best startup in Mobile Entertainment in partnership with Mobile Entertainment Forum
• MPA in User Experience - The best startup in Mobile User Experience in partnership with MEX
• MPA in Social Change – The best startup using mobile for social change in partnership with MobileActive.org
• MPA in Female Entrepreneurship- The best woman-lead mobile startup in partnership with Women2.0 and the Women in Mobile Data Association

The Mobile Premier Awards 2010 selection process for MobileMonday chapters

1. Starting from November, online visibility will start on major mobile & technology blogs. Start-ups from all over the world can register themselves in the competition portal. [Make sure you select MobileMonday Jakarta as your affiliation]

2. On December 31 midnight local time, the competition will close and no new signups or edits will be allowed by the startups. Please inform us if you will have your nominee selection deadline later then this date.

3. MobileMonday Indonesia Chapter will nominate using its own methods: email voting, local momo event voting, founder’s voting, jury….your choice.

4. We will select ONE nominee by January 6, 2010 midnight local time, and notify the organizer about this nomination. Remember that nominees must be willing to come at their own expense to the Mobile Premier Awards in Barcelona.

5. On January 11, 2010 all nominees will be announced and will be available to all registered members globally through the mobilepremierawards.com home page.

6. An international Jury (more on this topic soon) will select the 20 finalists to the Mobile Premier Awards event in Barcelona. The finalists chosen to present in Barcelona will be announced on January 18, 2010.

Next Steps

For more details go to: http://www.mobilepremierawards.com … and hurry up to register your start-up!

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!

We know that Indonesia (or Jakarta to be exact) has the largest BlackBerry population for a single city. The growth was so phenomenal and somewhat controversial too… However, we believe that we have touched only the surface of BlackBerry’s (and data services in general) true potential.

In the event we will hear the experience, thoughts, insights sharing from people like:

• Boss Agung Wijanarko (Indosat) – a self proclaimed BlackBerry evangelist, one of a few people following BlackBerry steps in Indonesia since its infancy
• Boss Fahmi Gustiawan (Pravina) – whose company help the implementation of BlackBerry-based m-Gov in DKI… also featuring our special guest from Bappeda DKI.
• Boss Deddy Avianto (id-berry) – experienced businessman in BB-specific content & applications…. “Theme” is his middle name
• Boss Ronald Ishak (Domikado) – cool and popular lifestyle apps – Indonesian made – t.b.c.

Each of them will highlight various aspects of BB opportunities: from who the target segment & current users are, where the market potential is, how to start, why they started, how to tap into enterprise and consumer opportunities.

Event details:

• Date: Monday, 2 November 2009
• Time: 18.00 – 21.00 (Presentation starts at 18.30)
• Venue: Amigos Restaurant, Bellagio Mall, Kawasan Mega Kuningan

Registration is open at our website:

http://www.mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

Special thanks once again to Indosat for sponsoring the event.

See you there!

Yours,

MobileMonday Indonesia
PS.

Friends, seriously, I need a recommendation for the next venue… ideally someplace cozy and at the central, send us your recommendation to info [at] mobilemonday.co.id

Digital Marketing & Advertising Conference

Assembly Hall, JCC, Jakarta
July 31, 2009  l  09:00 – 16:00
featuring speakers Alex “Burnie” Burnard (VP/Creative Director of Crispin Porter + Bogusky) and Bennet Porter (Marketing Yahoo! South East Asia).

Bubu Awards V.06 Awarding Night

Assembly Hall, JCC, Jakarta
July 31, 2009  l  19:00 – 22:30
featuring performances by video interactive artist and The Changcuters.

Email your reservation to momo@bubuawards.com and get 15% discount for the tickets!!

Venue is the Amigos Restaurant at Bellagio Boutique Mall, Kawasan Mega Kuningan. You know, the usual MoMo place – this time with a brighter projector

And in addition to Tomi Ahonen… additional speakers are joining to spice up the event:

• Indra Utoyo / Widi Nugroho (Telkom Indonesia) on Indigo Fellowship for the brightest Indonesian digitalpreneur
• Shinta “Bubu” Dhanuwardoyo on Bubu Awards

What are you waiting for? We still got few more seats left. Register to the event: here.

We are honored and delighted to have Tomi Ahonen, the world’s authority on mobile industry is joining us next week. He will discuss his latest insights about “New Models for Revenue in Mobile Social Networking”

I think everyone agrees that Social Networking is serious thing to watch. But when we’re moving the social network from the web to the mobile, things will change… many are still wondering how to monetize and sustain the business.

Tomi, who authored a bunch of best-selling books and writes regularly in few blogs and tweet on mobile and a long time supporter of MobileMonday, will share some new models as social network move to mobile i.e. subscriptions, advertising, personalization, gifting, and ego-services (ego what?).

Don’t miss this event:

• Date: Monday, 1 June 2009
• Time: 18.00 (door open) – until finish
• Place: Kuningan area (watch this space, we’ll confirm exact restaurant)

To register, pls fill in the form on our website: Register to the Event.

First come, first served ya…

See you there!