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To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion
This post first appeared in the Harvard Business Review blog on January 13, 2012. You can find the original post – along with the interesting conversations in the comments section – here Several years...
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Considering a Start-Up? Think Again.
This post was originally published in the Harvard Business Review blog on April 30, 2012. You can find that article here. It’s been a banner year for start-ups. With the JOBS Act, the rise of...
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Can the Philippines be the Silicon Valley of Social Enterprise?
Browse through Vogue and you might notice these colorful clutches. Thoughtfully-designed and beautifully-handcrafted, they marry form and function. The brand itself has grown a loyal following the past...
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Top 10 People to Meet in the Philippines Startup Scene in 2014
On a Sunday morning in early January, I got a text from Manila Angels‘ Christian Besler. Nope, it wasn’t a drunk message sent at 3am. It was about grabbing coffee at the Pen with two Bay Area...
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How Filipino Women Shop Online: An Inside Look into Consumer Adoption
The e-commerce market in the Philippines is worth $1.1 billion. Yet, nobody really knows how Filipinos shop online. Sure, there are a number of surveys on online habits, but these tend to be flawed...
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A Blueprint for SM’s Digital Future
In 2014, TSC announced that SM will slowly grow its e-commerce business. Photo: Rappler.com In 1846, Austria’s Vienna General Hospital had a maternity ward that was notorious for killing mothers and...
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How the Next Philippine President Can Win the Entrepreneur Vote
Mar is probably the most business-friendly of the bunch, though he is no entrepreneur. Jojo will find it hard to claim to be an entrepreneur because it runs counter to the narrative that he didn’t get...
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Top 10 People to Meet in the Philippines Startup Scene in 2016
Photo credits: http://www.bamaquino.com 2016 is particularly crucial not just because it’s an election year, but also because it’s a milestone for the early cohort of startups founded in 2008-2014 to...
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Why Would Anyone Invest in Rappler if it’s Losing Money?
Pierre Omidyar’s fund invested in Rappler. Is he trying to destabilize the PH? Uhm, no. A blogger posed this question, and posited that the reason anyone would is to achieve devious ends, in this...
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Unsolicited Career Advice Ateneans Will Ignore
Photo credit: Marty Ilagan By now, you might have seen the infamous post about an Atenean’s ranting about his/her less than favorable job prospects. Actual quote: “We’re more worried about the fact...
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The Honest Guide to Startup Fundraising in the Philippines , Part 1 of 2
“At some point, everything’s gonna go south on you. And you say to yourself, ‘This is it. This is how I end.’ Now you can either accept that or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin....
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