Entrepreneurship
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 –... »
Happiness for a Hundred Bucks
On our way to a brainstorming-consultation for Rags2Riches in TriNoma, Reese, Memey, and I chanced upon a street vendor selling these funky eyeglasses-moustache-torotot contraptions. The vendor-guy was actively playing with it as he walked under the unforgiving Saturday sun. I couldn’t resist. He just looked kickass dumb funny . And so I signalled his... »
We Are [The Brand]
Brand Loyalty is a dead concept. Think about it. In this day and age, switching from one website to another is a simple hyperlink click away; Changing shampoos is a mere redirection of one’s eyes and fingers on a grocery shelf; Cycling through cellphones is as easy as a buy and sell transaction in... »
A Sense of Place
At InoventDesign, we’re cooking up something radically exciting; a veritable gamechanger on technology. Unfortunately, i can’t divulge the devilish details … just yet. For the meantime, I’ll refer to it using our internal codename, Project Faith. Just yesterday, Brian Quebengco and I were brainstorming on how best to bring this baby into the world.... »
Wayne Gretzky and Business Advice
One question i often get … “What would be a good business to get into?” Now of course, there are standard spiels … one should discover one’s passion (absolutely!!!), make a personal inventory of competencies and skills (must do!!), and research on existing viable markets (hmmm … debatable … which is the whole point... »
Whose Idea?
Innovation is about value creation and realization, NOT JUST CONCEPTUALIZATION. As such, it actually means that you as an innovator must have brought something into the world for it to be considered a true innovation. This brings me to one of my favorite statistics (whose numbers are based only on my gut feel to... »
IF : Starting na Internet-Based Business
You are invited to attend the Innovation Forum on Wednesday, 4-6 PM, July 2,2008, entitled, ‘Starting an Internet-Based Business:Lessons from a serial entrepreneur’. The speaker for this forum will be Sheila Lirio Marcelo, who received her juris doctor and MBA from Harvard in 1996. Shiela was VP for Product and Marketing for Upromise.com, an... »
Cave Time
In the iloilo airport right now, my flight delayed. I’m relishing the forced alone-time, it’s given me breathing room to think in peace — a luxury that’s escaped me lately through the sheer frenetic pace of activity. All good, but frenetic nonetheless. The truth is that we all need cave time, whether it be... »
What’s the Big Idea?
When teaching entrepreneurship, most teachers and curricula focus on the components of the tried-and-tested “business plan” — the market analysis, the feasibility study, the financials, the operations, the human resources planning etc etc etc. And oh, by the way, somewhere along the way the business concept is tangentially tackled as well. I beg to... »
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