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Continue Reading →Instagram Co-Founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger challenge many of the myths surrounding startups and the lives of entrepreneurs. Both former Mayfield Fellows with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Systrom and Krieger share their first-hand experiences of the entrepreneurial process
Continue Reading →The Philippines has been trying to crack open the investment nut by lifting its competitiveness for such a long time but has not been getting very far. Here’s why.
Continuing on from the first part where we looked at the country’s investment gap of over half a trillion pesos a year, we [...]
Continue Reading →The average age of Filipino farmers, according to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food Sen. Kiko Pangilinan, is 57. Meanwhile, the average age of the Department of Agriculture‘s (DA) employees is mid 50′s. Aren’t the figures alarming?
To solve this hounding problem in the Philippine agricultural sector, DA Secretary Proceso Alcala [...]
Continue Reading →Twenty-one million. That’s how many Filipinos are on Facebook, according to Jim Ayson’s must read piece on The Philippines as a Facebook Nation.
The Philippines ranks (at the time of this writing) fifth in the world, in terms of Facebook population.
Both are huge numbers.
To put it in proper perspective, [...]
Continue Reading →If you are a sale freak and have never heard of Global Pinoy Bazaar yet, then better re-tune your antenna because you’re missing half of your life by missing out on this one.
Global Pinoy Bazaar is an annual Christmas holiday bazaar of Yabang Pinoy, a group of young and idealistic advocates and volunteers who pioneered in changing the mindsets of their countrymen by effecting positive social change through various programs and activities, such as Todo Patintero, Piso para sa Bayan, Yabang Pinoy goes to school, Yamang Isip at Takbong may Yabang.
Continue Reading →Eileen Ang of Entrepreneur wrote,
Beating 25 other groups, Cultura Verde, which means “green culture” in Spanish, is composed of Mary Felicci Ongchuan, Joey Ermita, Eleonor Japzon, Erika Ty, MJ Arevalo and David Nadela—all students at Ateneo de Manila University.
Under the brand “SOULe,” the business produces affordable, stylish and limited-edition shoes [...]
Continue Reading →In its effort to raise Pinoy pride and positive social change among its countrymen, a group of young and idealistic Filipinos saw the birth of a campaign called Yabang Pinoy. Yabang Pinoy’s main project is to always develop new, fun and exciting programs and activities that would convert “closet” Pinoys into “Shouting Proud Pinoys.”
Continue Reading →- Metro Cebu – December 18, 2011
- Metro Davao – December 18, 2011
- Metro Manila – December 18, 2011
