Andrew Dareis, Founder KASKUS.us

Dervish Andrew was born 31 years ago, he was the son of the second of four brothers. He is the founder of the site of the largest forum in Indonesia today, Kaskus.us. Andrew is crazy about tinkering with the website as a teenager, this is triggered when Andrew asked his uncle, a businessman in export furniture to create a website for his business. Andrew listed as a student Bina Nusantara (Binus) Jakarta at the time. After studying at Binus, Andrew looking for other universities 'support' his new hobby. He had trouble finding a suitable university in Indonesia, because at that multimedia has not become common land livelihoods in Indonesia. But eventually he found through the information of a friend who just returned from America. A university named Seattle University judged the deep desire to facilitate the world wide web programming. At first, Andrew's parents do not agree with her wishes. They think college would be too soon to waste money, not to mention the cost of living there. But after much insistence by Andrew, eventually they yield well, provided that the cost of living while studying in the United States must bear its own. Andrew menyanggupinya. The initial idea to create this site came during his college at Seattle University, USA, in 1999 ago. At that time, he was commissioned to create a website from a free software. While working on the program, occurred in Andrew's mind to create a forum site with Kaskus name (short buzz Kasak) And comes with an initial capital of U.S. $ 3000, Andrew bought a server and work with two colleagues named Ronald and Budi to design a portal that contains news and information about Indonesia. Andrew optimistic from the outset with this site. At that time, Internet users in Indonesia has reached 40 million people. For him, each user is a potential target to start an online business world. The initial purpose of Andrew and his colleagues is this site can cure homesickness Indonesian people who are living abroad. He retell the news of foreign sites such as CNN and Reuters, but earlier versions Kaskus is growing very slowly, not many Internet users are attracted to the site at that time. Finally, because of broken charcoal, Andrew was the second partner to leave. Gradually, Andrew learned from his mistakes, he mangematai other forum sites, and start adding sub-sub forum in kaskus forum. Starting from the game until the forum about the inclusion of plants in kaskus. Gradually, the site was also growing rapidly. One of the attractions at the time was kaskus +17 BB forum, a forum containing pornographic images. After that, Andrew had to work hard alone to run the site. He himself had to intervene to fix the server if there kerusakan.Ketika he finished college and moved to Jakarta, he had to work hard and build a self-image Kaskus advertise for advertisers interested in advertising on the site pair. Business door-to-door made Andrew sweet fruit. Only a year after moving to Jakarta and perform imaging of Kaskus, Andrew received support from many clients who rely on advertising their products Kaskus. Finally in December 2008, at the launch Kaskus officially with the support of many in belakangnya.Dua months later, Andrew started a company named PT Darta Kaskus Media Indonesia to supervise the company's professional website. In the same year, Andrew boldly remove BB +17 sub-forums already picked the name DJ, because in that year antipornography bill was passed and the government banned the site because it threatened kaskus contain pornographic content. The action instead of destroying, instead catapulted Kaskus name. Since the content of BB +17 abolished, there was a surge in the number who enroll in
Kaskus netter. DAPT numbers reached an average of 150-250 new members per day. Currently there are 2,310,981 members kaskus (starting in November 27th, 2010 at 17:20 pm) and this number is growing rapidly. Kaskus is the target market among students, college students, employees, professional and entrepreneur. Not only that, e-commerce sub forum kaskus named Senior also increasing rapidly. Andrew has received several awards from this site, among which are The Best Indonesian Communities for 2005 and 2006 versions of Alexa.com and Wikipedia, with the nomination of the Microsoft Innovative Top KASKUS Indonesia Web Site in 2008, and the nomination of Indosat KASKUS The Inspiring Online Award in 2009. Andrew is now assisted by about 30 employees in regulating kaskus.us, which is divided into several teams including marketing, sales, IT and creative. In 2009, Andrew of kaskus income is around 600 million rupiah per month. Andrew claims will continue to develop the site, and start targeting Internet users in the marketing of foreign content (content) kaskus. Now, the man known as the newbie 'Mimin' (short for Admin) This should be proud, kaskus has become a phenomenal site that has its own terms that no other forum sites. He was listed as the talented young entrepreneurs pride of Indonesia Continue min! Andrew Darwis brief profile: Full Name: Andrew Darwis Nicknames: Andrew, Mimin Place / Date of Birth: Jakarta / July 20, 1979 Sibling: Children from 4 to 2 children Hobbies: Regarding IT, gadgets, and photography SD-University Education: Elementary + junior Tarakanita Pluit. Smu Gandhi Memorial School, Ancol Multimedia & Web Design, Bina Nusantara University, Seattle University. Work Experience: Lyrics.com, KASKUS Nominations / Awards: Microsoft: Web Site That KASKUS Indonesia Inovative Recognized as Top Web Site (2008) Indosat: The Online KASKUS-Inspiring Award 2009