Want to be an entrepreneur with your good idea but lacking the resources? YSESU may be the answer! Gosingtian Ventures Inc. (angel investor) and Day 8 Business Academy Inc. (training for MSMEs) have teamed up to help aspiring entrepreneurs succeed. If you have: a dream to be entrepreneur a humble family background a defined social or consumer problem a novel […]
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I attended the 18th Harvard Social Enterprise Conference last March 25-26, 2017 sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School in Massachusett, USA. Here are 10 lessons I would like to share and a call to action: Society has many problems. It is our responsibility to help and empower the marginalized and vulnerable groups. Choose one field, focus […]
I visited New York on March 21, 2017 for some rest, relaxation and reacquaintance (with the Big Apple scene) before my annual educational retreat at MIT Sloan and Harvard in Boston. Always on my checklist of must-do’s-while-in-NY is to watch a play on Broadway. I wanted to watch Hamilton but the ticket which the hotel concierge found for me was […]
(Video Credit: WildAid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJG7RaLX-DM) Interested to offer a compelling alternative to shark fin soup? Join this contest if you are a chef SANS FIN SOUP CONTEST Organizer: Chinovation for Social Change Foundation Inc Sponsored: Chinoy TV, Gosingtian Forum Title: SANS FIN SOUP CONTEST Search for the best new alternative to shakrsfin soup Objectives: 1) To come up with an alternative soup […]
I used to drink shark fin soup. But my wife and I stopped going to shark fin restaurants or consuming shark fin soup after we learned what sharks had to go through before a bowl of shark fin soup is served to humans. 8 Reasons Why We Should Say No to Shark Fin Soup: First, shark fins have low nutritional […]
Santiago was supposed to visit Mrs. Cindy, a nice businesswoman nearing 60 years old, in her office in Quezon City at 2pm. Mrs. Cindy cut short her birthday blow out with her high school friends in order to be present in her office by 2pm. Without any prior warning, Santiago was late for 20 minutes and gave no apology. Sweating […]
The 12th Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) was held last Feb. 2, 2017 at RCBC Theater in Makati. Judging from the entries and speeches of past awardees, the Mansmith YMMA is now the most sought after recognition for young marketers, 35 years old and below. There is no other recognition in the Philippines similar to the Mansmith YMMA. While […]
2016 started as a year of bashing! I got bashed by the Aldub fans when I wrote about “The Eat Bulaga Plateau and How They Can Get Out of It (https://josiahgo.com/the-eat-bulaga-plateau-and-how-they-can-get-out-of-it/). I showed my business feature editor in Inquirer (where my articles are cross posted every Friday) how a fandom attacked me and my editor advised me that they got […]
I have been looking for a chief marketing strategist to replace me in Mansmith and Fielders Inc. I wanted to focus more on the social enterprise arm of Mansmith for small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs), Day 8 Business Academy Inc., where we have been training thousands of entrepreneurs yearly since 2000. Companies who are losing money do not even […]
(Speech delivered during the wedding reception of Ron Gabriel Gabunada and Tricia Gosingtian, the author’s only daughter last Jan. 15, 2017) Thank you to all our guests who spent time with us in Manila Cathedral as well as in Conrad Hotel. I was asked to give a speech to the newlyweds. Of course… they also know I would like to […]