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Last night, i was invited by Natali Ardianto (CTO of Urbanesia.com) and a couple of other friends to hangout and have a small chit-chat over a cup of coffee at Starbucks. These other friends happens to be startup founders and usually we would talk about things like investment, startup ecosystem, gossiping about VCs (yes, you heard me right) etc. 

To make the long story short, 28 startup founders came. It was a crowded bunch, and we literally invade that small coffee shop.

The small discussion over coffee was quickly turned into a roundtable of startup founders sharing stuff they know, for example, Leon and William from Tokopedia shared the story about how they raised seed funding from an angel and East Ventures. Others tell stories about bootstrapping and some also share their ideas about a potential startup.

It was the best discussion i have ever had.

One thing for sure, we're planning to run this kind of meetings between founders once a month. And definitely not on Starbucks. Point taken, and I'm sorry for those guys at Starbucks if we disrupt your holy coffee escape time.

This kind of activity from Indonesian startup founders is just a beginning of a bigger movement from Indonesian startups. Entrepreneurs starts coming in, Investors starts pouring cash in. Let's disrupt the market, let's disrupt the world.

ps : 
list of attendants from last night's gathering, courtesy of Nuniek.com

1.     Danny Oei Wirianto (@dwirianto) – Chief Marketing Officer Kaskus / CEO SemutApi &KlixDigital

2.     Natali Ardianto – (@nataliardianto) – Chief Technology Officer Urbanesia

3.     Nuniek Tirta Sari – (@nuniek) – Owner HamilCantik

4.     Sany Gaddafi (@sagad) – Founder Fupei

5.     Rama Mamuaya (@rampok) – Founder DailySocial

6.     Batista R Harahap – (@tista) - Owner Mediafusion

7.     Sandy Mardiansyah (@thesundayz) – Owner RaxMedia Design

8.     Selina Limman - (@missdimps) – Chief Executive Officer Urbanesia

9.     Deche – (@Deche) – Programmer  Urbanesia

10.   William Tanuwijaya – (@liamtokopedia) – Founder Tokopedia

11.   Leontinus Alpha Edison (@leon_psm) – Co-founder / Director Tokopedia

12.   Aswin Tanu Utomo (@aswintanu) – Founder AdaDiskon

13.   Atha – marketing magazine last_atha@yahoo.com @athalast

14.   Udhien  – Manager Plasa / Developer The Urban Mama

15.   Aria Rajasa (@Rajasa) – Chief Executive Officer GantiBaju

16.   Satya Witoelar – (@satya) -  Founder Koprol

17.   Leonita Julian (@leonisecret) – PR & Social Media Manager Klix Digital

18.   Philippe Do – (@philippedo) - Director KrazyMarket

19.   Akhmad ‘Toni’ Fathonih  - (@neofreko) – Founder NavinoT

20.   Farry Aprianto – (@farry) – Owner Tag-design

21.   Leo Ferdinand Rahadian – (@neomelonbay) – Senior Project Manager InfoKost

22.   Gerry Leo Nugroho – (@gerryleonugroho) – Business Development Detik

23.   Didik Wicaksono – (@firewalker06) - Designer Detik

24.   Edi – Admin Detik

25.   Supriyanto Pusorotrisno – Software Engineer Detik

26.   Achmad Gozali – Software Engineer Detik

27.   Heriyadi Janwar – (@Heriyadi) – Senior Manager Project Management Plasa

28.   Daru

29.   Auliamasna – (@auliamasna) editor macworld indonesia

30.   Api Perdana

31.   Aria