DSLaunchpad 2.0: Opening Space for Indonesian Startup Acceleration and Collaboration

The DSLaunchpad 2.0 acceleration program has now entered its final series. For approximately one month, the participants took advantage of the opportunity to accelerate the ideas and innovations they shared with the participants experts. This acceleration program also opens up opportunities for startups in Jabodetabek, but also throughout Indonesia because it is held annually online. Through this acceleration program, participants also get the opportunity to learn directly with various mentors in various topics ranging from idea validation, business models, prototyping, and also marketing.

Help Startup Accelerate from Various Mentoring Topics

In the first week, the participants received the fundamental material, namely idea validation. Through this topic, DSLaunchpad 2.0 participants learn to identify problems and pain points that the startup wants to solve. One of the important things thathighlight by the mentors on this topic is execution. Without execution, the ideas of the founders will be in vain. "It's not enough for us to just have an idea, but regardless of that idea what we need to do first immediately is action-his. It's useless we have a lot of ideas, good ideas if we don't do it." said Michael Andrianus, founder of Koalabora, when quoting the mentors.

According to the founder of Callin, Fido Tria Brahma, this material also not only teaches them new things, but also reminds them of important things that startups must do, one of which is continuous iteration to develop their products. “The essence of startup is continuous iteration, test continuously, even though it is finished, we must do it continuously.” added Fido to DailySocial.

Related to material idea validation, participants were also given an understanding of the right business model in the second week. In this topic, participants are invited to understand how startups can operate and generate income value and revenue on his business. Furthermore, in the third week, participants learn about prototyping which can help them efficiently test and demonstrate products in the early stages of their startup development.

In the last week, participants are invited to have an understanding of marketing strategy planning that is right for their needs brand and consumer characteristics. One of the participants, Tommy Hartono (Founder Scrapiro), said that the topic of marketing is very helpful for his startup, which lacks team members with various backgrounds. marketing. In addition, this topic also helps them to understand the market needs in developing their startup products. "We have to know" what markets need, market demandsWhat is it, don't let us make products that the market doesn't really need.” said Tommy.

Open the Widest Networking Opportunities and Exchange Insights

Through an acceleration program held regularly online, DSLaunchpad 2.0 opens wide opportunities for all startups in Indonesia to develop their startups. One startup that has benefited from this is a startup from Bali, Omni Hotelier. According to Wahyu Cahyadi, Co-Founder of Omni Hotelier, this opportunity is very useful to increase knowledge about startups and sharing with fellow startup actors in Jabodetabek. "After joining DSLaunchpad, it's completely different (related) to what I've been expecting about startups, it turns out that investors are like this, doing market validation like this should be." added Wahyu.

This acceleration program also provides an opportunity for participants to perform networking with fellow participants and mentors. Networking It is hoped that this will open a new collaboration space and become a moment to exchange insights for each participant. It doesn't stop there, 118 selected participants in DSLaunchpad 2.0 have also received credit from AWS which can be used for product and service development needed to accelerate their startup during or after this program takes place.

According to the recognition of one of the participants, Ahmad Alimuddin (Founder of Teman Pasar) acceleration programs such as DSLunchpad 2.0 also open opportunities to increase new startups that grow and develop, especially from young people to further enrich the startup ecosystem in Indonesia. "We hope that DailySocial.id will embrace more young people to build their startups, because after all, Indonesia is currently growing, and on average there are many startup founders who need this kind of mentorship." said Ahmad Alimuddin, Founder of Teman Pasar to DailySocial.