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Benny Tjia

Why Indonesia is a Perfect Ground for High-Return Impact Investing

*About IIF (Indonesia Impact Fund): I currently serve as an Investment Committee member and Partner at IIF, Indonesia’s first private-led…

5 min readFeb 16, 2023

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Why Indonesia is a Perfect Ground for High-Return Impact Investing

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The entrepreneurs, the founders, and the tourists

There are three types of VC-backed startup founders: (1) The entrepreneurs, (2) The founders, and (3) The tourists.

3 min readDec 4, 2018

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The entrepreneurs, the founders, and the tourists

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Tracking early-stage KPI metrics with the rule of three

One of the key principles in business strategy is about making trade-offs. CEOs and executives are good at it. Good trade-off ability…

3 min readNov 23, 2018

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Tracking early-stage KPI metrics with the rule of three

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Building early-stage growth strategy around customer-value fit

There are two reasons early-stage startups struggle in Southeast Asia: they can’t acquire customers fast enough or can’t acquire customers…

5 min readNov 16, 2018

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Benny Tjia

Stock options plan doesn’t work in Southeast Asia

The key reason startups give stock options to their employees is because they want to retain their best employees. The rationale is when…

4 min readNov 1, 2018

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Stock options plan doesn’t work in Southeast Asia

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Benny Tjia

The damage of ride-hailing disruption to Indonesia’s taxi industry

Like Lyft vs Uber in US, the ride-hailing battle in Southeast Asia is Gojek vs Grab. It’s hard to pick sides. Grab and Gojek have equally…

5 min readOct 25, 2018

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The damage of ride-hailing disruption to Indonesia’s taxi industry

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Benny Tjia

You don’t need passion for your industry. But you do founder-market fit.

Before launching your startup, it’s a good thing to learn about others’ failures and successes. I found finding the root cause of failures…

3 min readOct 13, 2018

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Benny Tjia

Benny Tjia

VC | Venture Builder | Corporate Innovation | Ex-Microsoft | Ex-founder (1x Exit) | Perspectives on Southeast Asia, with emphasis on Indonesia

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