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Thursday, 29 July 2010 08:57 |
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by Sarah Lacy, as featured on TechCrunch I’ve long argued that great entrepreneurs are born not made. I emphasize the word “great” for a reason. A hot market can convince someone to become an entrepreneur but such fortune-seekers are rarely the ones who build lasting, billion-dollar companies.
What about those who say they never intended to start a company but circumstances lead them to success? I’d argue that they may not have always realized they were entrepreneurs, but if you asked their friends, parents and siblings, they would describe them as having always been the kid with the lemonade stand, the kid working an angle, the kid creating something where there was nothing. Like a cylon, something just switched it on later. Seeing an idea through to become something huge is too hard. You simply have it or you don’t.
One person has made me question this—a bit. I met him in Indonesia and like Madonna, he’s mostly known by one name—Ciputra. That name is on universities and city subdivisions the country over. (That’s him to the right in front of a large painting from his impressive modern art collection.) If Ciputra is the Indonesian Donald Trump, Jakarta is his New York—a city that quite literally has his fingerprints all over it. Now in his late 70s, Ciputra has lived every painful chapter of Indonesian history from colonial times to Sukarno to Suharto and finally to what the country hopes is a stable democracy. And that ride has taken him from obscurity to success to bankruptcy and back to success again.
Ciputra is an architect who describes his aesthetic as “grand.” Most of his properties have huge statues of horses, caught mid-air in granite galloping wildly with all their might, nostrils flaring. That, or statues of buxom women who look a bit like the painting at the beginning of “Good Times.” He started his first company—a development consultancy—in architecture school but he was frustrated not controlling a project from start-to-finish. Soon after he started developing buildings himself, he grew weary of that as well, moving onto developing whole streets. But that still wasn’t enough. He started developing cities within cities. Now,he has 50 under his belt, spanning several continents and some 25,000 hectares.
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Friday, 09 July 2010 10:26 |
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"A Big Step to a Better Environment" Responsible Tourism is about making better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit. The concept of responsible tourism is became today's global trends. This concept is the result of evolution and development of sustainable tourism and ecotourism. Responsible Tourism requires that operators, hoteliers, governments, local people and tourists take responsibility, take action to make tourism more sustainable. Sustainable tourism is a process and system development that can ensure the sustainability of tourism or the presence of natural resources, socio-cultural life and economy to future generations. In essence, sustainable tourism is tourism that can provide long-term benefits to the local economy without destroying the environment. One of the mechanisms of sustainable tourism is ecotourism, which is a combination of conservation and tourism, it means derived from tourism revenue should be returned to the area that needs to be protected for the preservation and improvement of socioeconomic conditions in the surrounding community. The purposeof responsible tourism is trying to minimize negative impacts on the environment and society. |
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Monday, 05 July 2010 15:58 |
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67 mahasiswa dan 13 staff dari Universitas Ciputra (UC) mengadakan kunjungan ke Universiti Kuala Lumpur pada 15 Juni 2010. Acara ini merupakan bagian dari Study Tour mengunjungi Singapura, Malaysia dan Batam yang diadakan oleh jurusan International Business Management (IBM) UC. Delegasi dari UC dipimpin oleh Dr. David Sukardi Kodrat, Dekan Fakultas Ekonomi dan Inge Gunawan, Kepala Program Studi IBM.
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Monday, 05 July 2010 15:32 |
Pada event Pameran Mebel Produk Ekspor 2010 yang digelar di Gramedia Expo, Dinas Perindustrian dan Perdagangan (DiPerinDag) Jawa Timur menyelenggarakan Kompetisi Mebel Recycle Wood.
Dewan Juri kompetisi ini terdiri dari 3 unsur, yaitu:
- Dinas Perindustrian dan Perdagangan (DisPerinDag),
- Asosiasi Pengusaha Mebel Indonesia (ASMINDO),
- Praktisi Desain Mebel.
Hasil penjurian diumumkan pada hari Minggu 20 Juni 2010, dan tim mahasiswa Program Studi Arsitektur Interior Universitas Ciputra berhasil meraih dua gelar sekaligus.
Tim Ester Lianto dan Rendi Nuansa ( INA 2008 ) dengan karya kursi yang dilengkapi kisi-kisi tempat buku, berjudul ‘Chaise en Trelis' meraih total nilai tertinggi dan terpilih sebagai pemenang Pertama.
Tim Melisa Fransisca H. dan Deasy Esterina ( INA 2008 ) dengan karya meja dua fungsi yang dapat difungsikan sebagai rak dua tampilan, berjudul 'Multifunction Coffee-Table', terpilih sebagai pemenang Kedua.
Pemenang Ketiga diraih tim mahasiswa dari Jurusan Teknik Arsitektur Universitas Kristen Petra, Surabaya. Para pemenang menerima hadiah berupa trophy, sertifikat, dan dana pembinaan, dari DisPerinDag Jatim. |
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