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 […]

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 […]

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) under the new president Rodrigo Duterte and Secretary Ramon Lopez defined its overall mission as alleviating poverty and uplifting the quality of life of all Filipinos. This will be done through sustainable economic growth that generates more income opportunities through employment and entrepreneurship. Secretary Lopez, a champion of SMEs for the last eleven […]

I met Joey Concepcion in 1982. I was a 20-year old fresh graduate working in the brand management division of RFM co-owned by his family. He was working there a year ahead of me as promotions manager. I remember hitching a ride with him during some of our Cabuyao plant meetings. I decided to be an entrepreneur in 1985. Tony […]

At the height of typhoon Yolanda a year ago (2013), I was sick and immobilized at home but I felt I had to do something to help those affected by the storm. Having initiated fund raising campaigns in the past for Zamboanga Fund for Little Kids (original name was Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation) and the Godparents Program of Markprof Marketing Leadership Bootcamp […]

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