They didn't start it easily.

I met some new people recently. No, they are not my patients, they are people who was once in my place where I'm seating now. (So they've once using your laptop too?) Err... no -____-". They are successes entrepreneurs who once crawled from zero just like me now. I didn't waste my chance to get their experience, I've pretty much asked some of them questions, which they've generously answered and shared me their stories.

There was Silverius Oscar "Onte" Unggul, an eco-social entrepreneur who works for TELAPAK. He was one of some speakers on E-idea EA at Shangrila Hotel last Wednesday. TELAPAK is an NGO who works for the environment, what they have done and do pretty much inspires me. They save trees and help illegal loggers to cooperate with them and earn more money. While illegal loggers used to cut trees and sell woods in cheap price, TELAPAK made a system to certified trees which will worth more because each tree is noted for its age, height, diameter,  precise position and for each tree that is cut will be replaced with another tree. And when those woods are transformed into furniture or stuff like that, its certification will tell the buyer that that furniture is made from tree which was cut from where, in what age, what year and so... Brilliant idea!
Before he finally made those illegal loggers to cooperate with him, Bang Onte (it's how some people call him) spent 7 years to approach them. Seven years!!! In seven years he didn't produce anything yet, he just tried to get along with those loggers; sleep, eat, play soccer with them. The guy is so very nice, he shared me a social enterprise manual... I'm still learning on it.

And there was Wahyu Aditya, a quite famous entrepreneur who is the founder of Hello Motion. The man runs a design school, makes design festival once in every year, runs a distro, produces printed tees... He shared his experiences when he first run his business. It takes 5 years until he can say that his business is finally established.

And there was more couples of people who also has interesting stories... But what I can conclude is that the first 3 years of running a business is the period that we can say "masa berdarah-darah", so please enjoy! And another thing I got is, "motivation is above ability". When you (read: I) have a great motivation of doing something, you (read: I) will do anything to make something that seems impossible to be possible. Oh, cool! Saying it is so easy, but to do it is a hard work and "berdarah-darah". But bring it on! I - WANT - MY - DREAM - COMES - TRUE !!! You hear me universe??? I know you do! Make it happen!!!!!


Sincerely,
a trying-to-be-an-eco-social-entrepreneur yang masih kroco, coro, combro, misro, minumnya teh botol sosro. :p