Support Students to Become Young Entrepreneurs, Skystar Ventures and CDC UMN Hold Career Building

(doc. Skystar Ventures)

TANGERANG – Career Building is one of the annual debriefings that must be followed by all students at Multimedia Nusantara University. This year, the Entrepreneurship Development Program is one of the sessions given in Career Building 2021 with the title “Generating Potential Businesses Through Prospective Ideas”. This time, Skystar Ventures UMN and CAREER Development Center UMN had the opportunity to invite various experienced mentors to introduce the world of entrepreneurship to about 2000s of UMN third semester students.

The Entrepreneurship Development Program is divided into three sessions tailored to each faculty at UMN. Therefore, each of these sessions also invites mentors from different industry backgrounds so that they can represent each faculty at UMN. For example, a session for the Faculty of Communication Sciences invited Cretivox Founder and CEO Lukman Benjamin Mulia on Tuesday (09/14/21). Then, the session for the Faculty of Business, Faculty of Engineering and Informatics presented the Co-Founder &CEO of NusaTalent, Steven Gouw on Tuesday (09/21/21). In addition, there was also a session for the Faculty of Art and Design that invited the Head of IDN Pictures, Susanti Dewi on Tuesday (09/28/21).

In general, this entrepreneurship program discusses some of the main ideas about ideation process and business development process. In the ideation process stage, mentors tell about the background of their business ideas that can answer people’s problems. This is explained from how to search to develop a business idea. As for one way to find a business idea expressed by The Co-Founder &CEO of NusaTalent, Steven Gouw is to follow passion or opportunity.

“Passion is what you like or what you are good at. Opportunity is again a trend. The question is, is there something wrong [between passion and opportunity]? There’s nothing wrong with choosing which one,” Steven said.

Co-Founder & CEO of NusaTalent, Steven Gouw was the speaker for the session at
Faculty of Business as well as Faculty of Engineering and Informatics (doc. UMN)

Then, at the business development process stage, mentors provide business strategy tips to survive the existing competition. Collaboration is one of the business strategies repeatedly emphasized by both NusaTalent Co-Founder &CEO mentor Steven Gouw and Head of IDN Pictures, Susanti Dewi. They say collaboration or finding business partners is important to develop a business. However, the process of finding a business partner should also not be careless. Steven and Susanti analogize the search for this business partner like “PDKT” when looking for a girlfriend or life partner.

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“Approach first. Chatting for months, vacationing together to know, ‘Are they in the same vision?'” said Steven.

Head of IDN Pictures, Susanti Dewi as a source for the session at the Faculty of
Art and Design (doc. UMN)

In line with Steven, Susanti also revealed the importance of ensuring the similarity of this vision. In addition, Susanti also explained three other important aspects when looking for business partners. Three other aspects that need to be explored to business partners, including the way of leadership, management, and technology. Susanti also believes that collaboration with the right partner will have good implications for the growth of a business.

“If you’re just a pinter doang, but you can’t reflect and cooperate well with friends or communicate well, it can’t be anything,” Susanti said.

(doc. Skystar Ventures)

Through this program, Skystar Ventures UMN also hopes to provide motivation to UMN students to pioneer a career as an entrepreneur. This expectation is indeed in line with UMN’s vision to produce students with an entrepreneurial spirit
So as to encourage economic development and create jobs.

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Skystar Ventures UMN is a tech incubator and community driven collaborative space established by Multimedia Nusantara University and Kompas Gramedia Group in 2013. Skystar Ventures UMN is also present to help UMN students and alumni to realize their business ideas by connecting them to the right business network. There are three main pillars in Skystar Ventures, including the Business Incubation Program, Co-working Space, and Venture Capital.

Skystar Ventures UMN (doc. UMN)

Through Skystar Ventures, UMN also managed to become the first Private College (PTS) to get incubator accreditation with classification A from Kemenristekdikti and AIBI in 2019. In addition, Skystar Ventures has also been named the best incubator in the mentoring and mentoring category from Kemenristekdikti in 2018.

By Melinda Chang | UMN News Service

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