Entrepreneurship
A Heritage of Smallness = 21st Century Bigness
Before anything else, let go of your easily-prickable Pinoy pride for 15 minutes and read (or re-read) Nick Joaquin’s A Heritage of Smallness. In this influential essay, the one-time National Artist for Literature holds up a mirror to the Filipino Soul and eschews our love affair with all things small : “Society for the Filipino is... »
Why Hapinoy is Like the iPhone
You’re probably wondering how in the world I came up with the following equation : Well, the truth of the matter is that lately, I’ve begun to become more comfortable explaining Hapinoy’s Business Model in this way. Most especially now that we’re in a stage wherein we can more tangibly share the next phase of... »
JCI Entrep Summit 2009 : Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders
I’ve been invited to share in this event. See you there! JCI Entrep Summit 2009 : Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders Ideas and stories from business people who are ahead of their time. “Are You Ready to be an Entrepreneur?” – Rudy Ang, Dean, Ateneo de Manila’s School of Management “How Belo became Belo” – Vicky Belo, Founder,... »
1st-Generation Entrepreneur
(seated – Mary Jean Notario Cruz of Greenfund, Michael Chen of HBS, Erika Tatad of Hapinoy; standing – moi and Arnel Casanova of AsiaSociety) Earlier today we had a meeting with Michael Chen, Executive Director of the Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Research Center. He was in town exploring possible case studies of interest for HBS. And... »
Make or Break
In a rare treat, Inovent was asked to present to the Electronics and Communications Engineering Society of DSLU for their recent Convergence Seminar. Now, this is an audience i’m particularly interested in talking to. So aside from Ryan, Nikko, and myself sharing the Ilumina (Brian was in the US), I also took the opportunity to share... »
Move the Jobs to Save the Jobs?
For reasons that will be obvious, I’ll be masking a lot of details in this post : I recently met with a friend whose family business is manufacturing (let’s just call it) “Product Line X”. Through the generations, they’ve grown their company to be one of the Top (3) in their industry; In fact, they... »
ALL IN!
So it’s been (3) years since I resigned from the corporate world and decided to make the leap into this entrepreneurial life. At this point-in-time, I just feel so blessed with everything that has happened – that I couldn’t help but “pay-it-forward”. And one of the ways I’m letting this gratitude manifest is by sharing what... »
Large-Scale Social Business Entrepreneurship
Last night, the Rags2Riches Board had a getting-to-know-you session with people from LGT Venture Philantropy. We currently have an ongoing conversation with them on a potential partnership and probable investment. Over dinner, I was talking to Dev Appanah – investment manager of LGTVP – about the convergence of social change and business. This is a... »
Is Money Losing Its Currency?
The cliche’ “Money isn’t everything” has never held as much truth as it does now. You see, it used to be that we bartered and traded goods and services for other goods and services. Badly put, I’ll give you ten chickens if you build part of my house. But when this great invention – money –... »
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