Library of Things, Startup Originating a New Culture for a Waste-Free Indonesia

Garbage strewn in the home environment must have become a common sight for the people of Indonesia. Try now you see a sewer or river near your house, surely there is garbage that accumulates right?

This concern about environmental damage makes a graduate student of Multimedia Nusantara University majoring in DKV named Tommy Andrea provide a solution realized in a digital startup platform. This startup became one of the participants of Skystar Ventures batch 8 initiated by four friends (Tommy, Ferdie, Shierly, Gunadi) who were met in Taiwan while pursuing a graduate study program at NCKU (National Cheng Kung University).

After these four friends watched the Netflix series titled “Startup” in January 2021, they were interested in setting up a Startup in Indonesia. After going through a long brainstorming process, the Library of Things Indonesia was born.

This startup is a peer-to-peer digital platform that has a circular economy concept to create zero waste through a sharing culture, which hopes to have a positive impact for society to be more environmentally responsible.

The Library of Things sees the potential of Skystar Ventures’ batch 8 incubation program. This program is able to provide direction, motivation, support, and mentoring for startup development. Included in his personal development of each team member to become a competent young entrepreneur.

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Learning to become an entrepreneur is not an easy thing to do alone, without guidance and knowledge from experienced people. Not only that, Skystar Ventures incubation program batch 8 can also help determine the value of a product given to customers, marketing and pricing strategies.

“It’s not easy for us to get to this stage.  We also still have many problems that may be passed for the realization of one of our goals, namely the pilot scale of the Library of Things! However, we enjoyed the whole process and did our best,” said Tommy Andrea, CEO of library of things.

The Library of Things will continue to grow by providing new innovations to its services. Currently, the Library of Things is in the research and development phase, along with the introduction (raise brand awareness) about the Library of Things indonesia, circular economy and sharing economy concept, and the impact on the environment and society.

In addition, the Library of Things is also in the stage of making TVC (TV commercial / video advertising) regarding the concept of the Library of Things Indonesia itself and how the Library of Things indonesia is able to have an impact on the environment and society. The Library of Things also decided to redesign the logo to look simpler and able to give meaning to the basic concept. Don’t forget to check instagram @libraryofthings.id for more info!

By Natalia Maria Josephine | Skystar Ventures

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