Pada malam ni saya belajar sesuatu yang mana saya harus berkongsi dengan you all.

Dalam kita rancak berbusiness, akan tiba masa dimana disiplin sangat diperlukan kerana kita akan rambang mata dalam tindakan kita. Rambang mata yang ingin saya kongsi disini adalah ‘peluang untuk invest’ di tempat lain.

Betullah cakap rakan saya dimana kita ibarat semut yang sukakan gula. Kalau kita tukarkan konsep ni kepada business, kita akan lebih tertarik kepada ‘investment’ yang lebih menguntungkan padahal business kita masih lagi berada dalam keadaan ‘tatih’ ataupun ‘growing stage’.

Business memerlukan pengorbanan yang sangat tinggi dari segi masa, tenaga, pemikiran dan macam-macam lagi. Ada kalanya naik dan ada kalanya turun. Tidak kiralah apa jenis business sekalipun.

Business perlukan ‘Endurance’ dan ‘Disipline’

Bila berbusiness, kita perlukan dua kriteria ni sebab bila kita serious nak berbusiness, kita kena tahu yang business bukan seperti makan gaji. Bila makan gaji, setiap hujung bulan sudah pasti akan dapat gaji. Tapi bila berbusiness, lagi-lagi business yang belum stabil, kita perlukan ketahanan yang utuh iaitu ‘endurance’. Tanpa ‘endurance’, business tu susah nak pergi jauh. So kalau nak ‘endurance’, perlu ada ‘discipline’.

Business ni sebenarnya ibarat marathon. Seseorang yang masuk marathon, mereka perlu lari sejauh 42.3km. Kalau seseorang tu terer lari 100m, belum tentu boleh habiskan larian sejauh 42.3km.

Concentrate on the business first

So hari ni, isteri saya sekali lagi menegur saya agar concentrate 100% in our business. Alhamdulillah, ada partner yang boleh menegur kesilapan saya.

Please jadikan sharing saya sebagai pengajaran kepada you all agar tak leka dan alpa dalam berbusiness ok.

Salam.

Semalam saya berkongsi pasal Go-Jek dan disebabkan saya share di facebook saya, maka banyaklah yang membaca. Yang menariknya ramai dari kalangan follower saya tak pernah dengar pun pasal Go-Jek.

Yang lagi menarik, baru saya perasan yang ramai tak pernah dengar pun perkataan-perkataan seperti ‘startup’, ‘unicorn’ ‘vc’.

Well, dulu saya pun tak pernah dengar tapi bila dah mula bercampur dengan orang-orang yang berjaya dalam industry especially dalam tech, saya pun mula membuka mata untuk belajar secara mendalam pasal industry ni.

Kalau bukak google, type aja ‘startup’, ‘silicon valley startup’ ‘unicorn startup’, you akan dapat tengok satu dunia baru. Well, tahniah jika you dah pernah tahu. Kalau tak pernah tahu, its ok. There’s always something new to learn kan?

Anyways, enough for now. I’ll continue later with a different topic pulak.

Salam.

Dua tiga hari ni traffic to website is very slow. Conversion pun very slow as compared to last week. So I was a bit down and start to play the blame game.

I asked my wife semalam what is our ultimate goal in this telekung business. At what point should we quit or start doing another venture.

She said something like this:

Erina : I want to achieve my first million from this business.

Ok, that give me a sense of motivation and relief. Well, just for yesterday.

Today, the tracffic is still slow and my dad pulak called masa petang lepas Jumaat.

Ayah : How’s your sales today?

Me : Oklah but a bit slow.

Ayah : Kalau macam tu, banyakkan zikir. Tapi jangan zikir untuk rezeki. Zikir untuk memuji Allah.

Fuh, lega pulak rasa.

At 5pm tadi, I was praying in my office and tiba-tiba ada bunyi ‘din dong’. Meaning ada orang datang. I teruskan je solat. Lepas solat, bukak pintu and ada customer tengah nak ambik telekung. Alhamdulillah, dapat la some sales.

Kesimpulan for today is, sales can be driven by a few factors and this is the challenge of doing business. Makan gaji, senang je. Cukup bulan confirm dapat duit.

Bila buat business ni, sabar kena tinggi. Usaha kena power dan doa pun kena power jugak. Banyak elemen perlu bermain dalam kancah perniagaan.

Apa-apa hal pun, I bersyukur.

Apa yang terjadi adalah berdasarkan apa amalan kita.

Salam.

Hari ni saya nak berkongsi serba sedikit pasal Go-Jek, sebuah company online yang ditubuhkan pada tahun 2010 oleh Nadiem Makarim. Beliau baru berumur 33 tahun dan apa yang menarik tentang Go-Jek adalah ianya adalah sebuah company transportation online yang dah membantu 250,000 penunggang motosikal dan juga pemandu 4x4, 3000 syarikat dan 35,000 peniaga Go-Food.

Pada permulaan business, konsep perniagaan mereka leinh mirip kepada Uber cumanya mereka lebih bijak kerana memperkenalkan konsep berkongsi motosikal. Jakarta yang terkenal dengan ‘macet’ sudah tentu memerlukan servis seperti ini kerana ianya memudahkan orang untuk bergerak dengan lebih pantas.

Seterusnya Go-Jek mengembangkan business mereka ke bidang despatch, food deliveries, cleaners and also massages. Pada April tahun 2016, mereka bersaing sangat rapat dengan Uber dan Grab.

Go-Jek telah mencipta rekod terbaru pada 2016 di mana mereka tersenatai dalam ‘Unicorn Club’ setelah menerima funding sebanyak USD 550 million. Valuation terhadap Go-Jek ialah USD 1.3 billion dollar.

Based on my research today, Malaysia still takda company yang berstatus Unicorn lagi. Singapura ada, China ada, India ada, US ada, China ada dan a few more countries.

So di mana Malaysia?

Takkan kita takda company yang boleh cecah Unicorn? Atau perhaps I am destined to explore this?

Anyways, good luck Go-Jek. U made Indonesian proud!

This is a post written in 2014.

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I just came back from Penang trip with my families. It has been 17 years since the last time I visited my relatives in Penang. Reason for this trip is to meet up with my aunties and uncles who came over all the way to Klang to visit my then ill mother when she was in the ICU.

I told my mother that everyone came and visited her and if she recovers from her illness, I shall bring her and the rest to visit the relatives. However, she passed away and I believe that it is my duty to arrange for family visiting.

Since we have a few days of leave during the Eidul Adha, I and my wife decided to visit Penang and to throw that idea to my dad. He is happy to hear about the Penang trip as he can enjoy his so called Mee Pokok Ceri and some other foods which is only available in Penang.

Initially, he said that he is a bit reluctant for this Penang trip as the jam might be massive. I told him to just relax and enjoy the trip. I’ll be driving anyways. He said ok. Let’s go to Penang then.

So food hunting it seems.

While doing the planning, I told Ayah that if we visit Penang for food hunting, we will not be scoring any points in the eyes of Allah. Why don’t we visit Penang for the sake of Silaturrahim? Perhaps that is better since it is sunnah. Being someone pious and learned, he definitely likes my idea and thus our Penang trip is actually to visit relative for the sake of strengthening the silaturrahim. Food hunting is secondary for this journey.

To my surprise, the condition of the road was fantastic throughout the journey except for our first day. It took around 12 hours from Seremban to Penang as we need to fetch my little sister who is studying in UiTM. Other than the first day craziness, the rest of the days are just fantastic.

I told Ayah that Allah definitely loves anyone who does something for His sake and our journey has just showed how our intention can actually benefits us.

So during the journey, we managed to visit Ayah’s family and also the food hunting. However, the food taste was bad. How can that be? Maybe Allah has taken the loves of food from us while we were in Penang and what Allah wants is for us to repair the relationship which was not good.