Surplus Creator Goes to Final DYSE 2015

Announcement picture from @Dancommunity

DYSE (Danone Young Social Entrepreneur) is a social entrepreneurship competition among Indonesia University students which is based on Danone Sustainability Development Program.

When the first time I saw about this competition I feel so interested because there is a big chance to start a business with a free funding, moreover this is a social business, so we can get two benefits in a raw, profit and help people in need.

At the beginning of May, I share about this competition to my friends to know if any of them interested to join, and then my friend Juwyta chat me to make a team, without any consideration I said OK! Then we need three more students to complete this team because one of the requirements is the team must consisted by 5 students.

And then I think that Jefri and Marconi are good enough to fill the blank space on this team, Jefri is the finalist of Marketeers Competition and Marconi is a vice president of AKSI INDONESIA MUDA, that’s a good opportunity. After I offer them to join, they said OK! Because they have the same passion in business. And we need one more students, we have a long discussion to choose one of our friends to complete this time, suddenly we remember about Tuti, she is a very cheerful and diligent students, in addition she is from Padang, so she must good at cooking. So I BBM-ed her and asked if she would join us to embrace(?) this competition. And she said that she would enthusiastically.

Now, I want to introduce the member of Surplus Creator team :

1. CEO - Samuel Putra Lumban Batu/Management/2012

2. CMO - Jefri Parulian Nainggolan/Business Administration/2012

3. CFO - Juwyta Sinaga/management/2012

4. COO - Tuti Sri Endrawati/management/2012

5. CHRO - Marconi Sitompul/Public Administration/2012

After our team was complete the next step was to think about what kind of business would we built and who would be the target.

It was a very complicated discussion, so we started with brainstorming, each members should give their ideas to be discussed together, so many idea we proposed that night and after a long argument we got one conclusion “To empower refugees of Sinabung to make Andaliman Sauce” all of us agreed with that project because andaliman is an identity of bataknese and Sinabung refugees is a community that really-really need to be empowered because they have no work anymore because of the eruption of Sinabung. Moreover there is no industry that produce andaliman sauce so far, so we are the pioneer, GREAT opportunity, huh?

The project had chosen, and then we work on the proposal, it takes less more 3 weeks to finish the proposal and sent it to the DYSE’s committees by uploaded to website. Few days after we uploaded the proposal we invited to do a Presentation+Interview session, the location was in Pizza Hut Merdeka Walk, with red coordinated costume we through the session confidently (I’m not sure about this) it takes one hour and a half. And the interviewers were two. they were so young and looks so smart, and the main judge asked us to revise our slide presentation and must be received by her in two days.

A week after the regional selection we emailed by Miss Tatya and said “congratulations” because she has choose our team as one of the team she would present to the committee but we have to revise our slide and proposal (again). But we love to do that, because we got closer to be one of the 12 national finalists. Now, Our competitor from Medan is only one, that was Toba Dream Team. The national committees will decide is any of us deserve to run into the final selection. Few days after we sent the revised slide and proposal the announcement date finally came.

June, 12nd 2015. 08.30 PM

@Dancommunity (The official account of Groupe Danone) upload an announcement picture, and that was one of the best picture I have ever seen, because there was Surplus Creator – USU as one of the 12 national finalists. And we were the only one team from ex.java island. So grateful J

After the announcement, now we enter Pilot Project Implementation, we have to make an introduction videos, some revisions and preparing our prototype. It’s gonna be a busy months, but we love it, we enjoy every process and steps J I believe that we can’t accomplish anything if we do nothing.

-Samuel, the CEO

These are some photoshoots of our team :)