Time to start!

Here is an intereting opinion from Bob Tinker CEO MobileIron Inc.

clipped from www.goodentrepreneur.com

Why do great companies get built during downturns?

1. It makes them strong.
2. Darwin is at work. Only really good ideas can raise capital when times are tough. Too many companies spending energy in a nascent market is distracting and destroys value.
3. You can hire great people. People make the company.
4. They also make more money for investors and employees.
5. You catch the wave. By the time the market turns around, your product is solid, your knowledge is deep, and you have a jump on future competitors.

Indeed, I share the same opinion. I do believe that now is the best time to start a business. Unfortunately, timing is not the only thing that we have to look closely when we start a business. More than timing is something called courage (or to be precise: a willingness to deal with uncertainty). Once you have it in your heart, then now is really the perfect time to start.

Anyway, here you can find an interesting competition (open til the end of June). They are looking for “good and green”  business ideas.

If you have those “good and green”  business ideas (which I don’t – I do have a bad and black business idea ) and you are still lacking of courage to make it come true, then I guess it would be a nice option to enter the competition.

Let’s Having Fun!

This presentation is one reason why we (I and my wife) start our small business (KUMMARA.com – in Bahasa Indonesia, it’s all about foods, fun, and friendships). The big idea is that we believe that games (boardgames and others creative family games) will stimulate the creativity’s, therefore we’ll try to provide a place where people can having fun in a creative way. We just start it for a month, honestly we really don’t know what is the future prospects of the business, but we just doesn’t really care because we do having fun and that’s what really matter!

Would you pay 30 Euro for a coffe?

We just finished our sunday afternoon movie time. We spent a wonderful time watched Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman new movie, The Bucket List. The movie tells a simple story about two stranger who help each other spend the last and the best time of their life. It’s an interesting and a very good movie. Jack Nicholson plays as Edward Cole, a milyuner, a cancer patient, and a ‘kopi luwak’ drinker, a special coffe from my beloved country Indonesia.

Before the movie, I knew little about kopi luwak. I knew it comes from Indonesia and some people said it’s really tasty. Eventhough I am enjoyed coffe very much and I would be happy to taste all kind of coffes in the world, I never put kopi luwak as my priority. Thanks to the movie, it becomes one of my dreams to have a cup of Kopi Luwak in my own Cafe! It turns out that Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffe in the world ; its price is around $120-$600/pound in the world market, one article even wrote that a cafe in Sidney sells it for 50 Australian dollar (30 Euro) a cup. It amazes me that coffe can be so costly, it amazes me even more when I found out that it made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of possum-like marsupial called a luwak (also kown as Asian Palm Civet). It just amazing that people are willing to pay such a big amount of money for animal’s feces, but it probably just another clear example of the economic law of suply and demand. If you ask me whether I am willing to pay such a price for a cup of coffe, I will definitely say NO, but If one day I have my own Cafe, I can ask my customers to pay my Coffe (otherwise I will ask my wife, like always)!

How about you, would you pay 30 Euro for a cup of coffe? or let me put this way, would you pay 36 euro (service and tax are included) in my Cafe?

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