Mohon tunggu...
David Rohans R Hutagaol
David Rohans R Hutagaol Mohon Tunggu... Akuntan - I write what i think

My name is David Rohans Rivaldo Hutagaol | An idealistic scatterbrain who loves reading, writing, listening, analyzing and travelling | A banker (someday) | A man with too many questions inside his head, who's interested in politic, music, social and economy |

Selanjutnya

Tutup

Kebijakan

The Causal Effect. Time For Healing

17 Juni 2019   00:28 Diperbarui: 12 Agustus 2019   00:50 101
+
Laporkan Konten
Laporkan Akun
Kompasiana adalah platform blog. Konten ini menjadi tanggung jawab bloger dan tidak mewakili pandangan redaksi Kompas.
Lihat foto
Pemerintahan. Sumber ilustrasi: FREEPIK/Freepik

          I have ever had one experience about start-up. I think my idea is fuc*ing awesome and i do believe it will go insane and i will get maximum profit. But at the end? It all messed up! It's not easy as i think about looking for any investors. When confronted with any startup idea, ask yourself one simple question : How many miracles have to happen for the succeed? If the answer is zero, you're not looking for any start up, you're just dealing with a regular business like a laundry. All you need is capital and minimal execution, and assuming a two-way market, you'll make some profit. To be a startup, i think, miracles need to happen. But precise number of miracles. Most succesful startup depend on one miracle only. Let's say Gojek. It was getting people to let strangers in their car/motorcycle. I don't talk about supply and demand. I talk about how miracle works in startup company. Oke, then, let's say google (even Google is not a start-up Company) but Google creating and exponentially better search service than anything that had existed to date. And now OVO and Go-Pay, it was getting people to book/order car/motorcycle via Gojek or Grab and Customer can pay with their services (OVO or Gopay) from their (customer) phone. This is a consumer-workflow miracle.

          Well, the most important decision in startup, as in life, is picking a partner. It will determine everything that comes after. With the right team, no man or organization can stand against you, and you will ultimately triumph. With the wrong team, you'll produce internal problems even faster than the external world can.

          Right now, in my weekend, i just think about my 2 ideas startup hopefully can be implemented as soon as possible. I just need a people who make me closer to the investors then i'm ready for any presentation around Jakarta. Remember, idea without implementation is like asshole and opinion, everyone gets one.

          Anyway, when you have an idea to build a start-up, the first question from the investor always about the business model. At first, i don't know the detail of business model. Then, i search this in Google. Well, google really really help me, as always. Like i said before, Google creating and exponentially better search service than anything. Think of your experience using Google. I'm guessing you have upon occasion typed things into that search box that reveal a behavior or thought. You may have also noticed a certain honesty in Google searches when looking at the way this search engine automatically tries to complete your queries. Its suggestions are based on the most common searches that other people have made. So, auto-complete clues us into what people are googling. In fact, auto-complete can be a misleading. Google won't suggest certain words it deems inappropriate such as "porn" and "fuck". This means auto-complete tells us that people's Google thoughts are less racy than they actually are. Even so, some sensitive stuff often still comes up.

          Google just the web for us for searching because Google is search engine. On social media, people always search how fake they are in there. Social media have a huge impact to all of us. We can hate people which is we don't know who they are, we just hate em because we read their status or anything else. On social media, you have a pleasure to make yourself look good. Your online presence is not anonymous, after all. You're courting an audience and telling your friends, family members, colleagues, acquaintances and strangers who you are. I have an example. On facebook, instagram, we show our cultivated selves, not our true selves.

          To gain a better understanding of what social media misses, let's return for the first sentence that i said today. I read quote "Marketing is like sex, only losers pay for it". I have few friends, real friends. Not a social media friends. Some man who think they are so handsome when they pay for sex. They think they are strong when they make a woman moaning in bed. What i think in the first place only losers who tell to everyone and happy that they can make satisfied their sex-friend. When you pay em, they will tell you what you want to hear. It's a goddamn true sentence, marketing is like sex. Only losers pay for it. Oke, let me tell you about something miss in social media. I'll tell you, let's talk about pornography. First, we need to address the common belief that the internet is dominated by smut. This isn't true. The majority of content on the internet is nonpornographic. For instance, og the top ten most visited websites, not one is pornographic. So, the popularity of porn, while enormous, shouldn't be overstated.

          Yet, that said, taking a close look at how we like and share pornography makes it clear that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter only provide a limited window into what's truly popular on the internet. There are large subsets of the web that operate with massive popularity but little social presence. The most popular video of all time, as i know till i write this article, is PSY. The Korean Rapper. With his song "Gangnam Style". This goofy pop music video that satirizes trendy koreans. It's been viewed about 3,3 billion times on youtube (June 15th 2019) alone since its debut in 2012. And its popularity is clear no matter what site you are on. It's been shared across different social media platforms tens of million of times.

          The most pornographic video of all time maybe "Great sex" or "karma sutra", etc, it's been viewed less than 3.3 Billion PSY's video "Gangnam Style". Let's say 90 million or 35 times less than PSY "Gangnam Style", it means thirty five views of Gangnam Style, there has been about at least one view of "Great sex" or "Karma sutra". If social media gave us an accurate view of the videos people watched "Great sex" or "Karma Sutra" should be posted millions of times. But this video has been shared on social media only a few times and always by porn stars, not by average users. People clearly don't feel the need to advertise their interest in this video to their friends.

          Why this happen? Because people when they have the video of "Great Sex" or "Karma Sutra", they will keep it or will share it via social media by using Whatsapp, Telegram or maybe via flashdisk. That's how virus spread. Some of my friends who are addicted to sex and watching porn, some of em, in the outside, always have an "angel" fashion. FAKE! Always talking about heaven and hell. Can you distinguish the original one? It's not easy, my friend!

          Let's return to business model. When i searched in Google about business model. I get so many knowledge in there. By the way, i will tell and make a correlation about business model and about a specific theme that i already said. There's one labor market women have always dominated : prostitution. Its business model is built upon a simple premise. And this business model is about supply and demand, like all we know that men have wanted more sex than they could get for free. So, what inevitably emerges is a supply of women, for the right price, are willing to satisfy this demand. Supply and demand. In Indonesia, of course, prostitution is illegal. We all know the headlines "menjemput rezeki", that's why she's in jail right now because it's illegal. Like i said before, i have few friends like this, no matter they are single or married. They pay for sex. And some make a joke, money can't buy happiness but i can buy sex. LOSERS! Haha. Why this happened? Take this logic sense for an example. An economic reason.  Girl who's working in the bar, her salary is Rp 3.900.000 a month (UMR-minimum wage). She lived in apartment. She wants Apple watch, Apple iphone, and another fancy things. Can she afford it all without any incentive? She received Rp 3.900.000 a month as her payroll, working with her own hands she got minimum wage while selling her body Rp 500.000 -- Rp 1.000.000 for a sex. She can receive Rp 12.000.000 a month maybe almost 3 times of her salary. She learned that there's a demand for it and men are willing to pay for the price. Match! Supply and demand.

          Even when a woman raise her price from Rp 750.000 to Rp 1.500.000, her price hikes, double price, i do believe that practically there's no decrease in demand. But what's the difference? She received more, the demand is still there. Maybe when she raised to Rp 1.500.000, there's no decrease in demand, but she's still the same. She is the same girl, dress the same and had the same conversation. But what the difference? She will get a romantic dinner and drink wine maybe. She will meet a different class of people that she never met before. That's why in my logic sense, when a girl had a price 80 Million "Menjemput Rezeki", there's still a demand in there, someone who can afford for it.

HALAMAN :
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
Mohon tunggu...

Lihat Konten Kebijakan Selengkapnya
Lihat Kebijakan Selengkapnya
Beri Komentar
Berkomentarlah secara bijaksana dan bertanggung jawab. Komentar sepenuhnya menjadi tanggung jawab komentator seperti diatur dalam UU ITE

Belum ada komentar. Jadilah yang pertama untuk memberikan komentar!
LAPORKAN KONTEN
Alasan
Laporkan Konten
Laporkan Akun