There were only 2 Pinoy Entrepreneurs in the 2008 billionaires list: Messrs. Henry Sy and Lucio Tan. There were more Filipinos in the 2011 global list of Forbes magazine. I searched high and low, never finding my name even in the footnote of the footnotes.  The four names from the Philippines in the 2011 list: [...]

You’ve decided to become a Pinoy Entrepreneur. You’ve attended a number of business-related seminars and expos, and bought tons of business books. You’re inspired by the stories of successful entrepreneurs. You have some capital and boundless entrepreneurial drive, so you want to pursue your first entrepreneurial venture. Consider these factors before going forward. Click here [...]

We need to improve our reaction time to broadcast business opportunities to members of the Pinoy Entrepreneurs community. As earlier noted, there’s obviously a lag time between any communication and the posting of the details in this Business Blog, so we strongly suggest that you use the My.Pinoy-Business feature so the post is automatically uploaded. [...]

When MyOffice was listed at the Directory, I noticed the name Milette Carlos. I remembered reading about Millette in a 2007 issue of a magazine, about mothers who run their business while running their homes smoothly at the same time. The article reveals that Milette Carlos started MyOffice in 2004 with her sister. So within [...]

Looking at the success (and failure) of others is important for Pinoy Entrepreneurs. We learn a lot from learning about the business experience of entrepreneurs who’ve made it (and, equally, the lessons of those who failed). Thus, it’s interesting to know the 10 Outstanding Entrepreneurs of 2008 list, released by Entrepreneur Philippines magazine in its [...]

One of the recurring themes here in Pinoy Entrepreneurs, as mentioned before, is who made it big in business. Yesterday we looked at the US to see the 400 wealthiest Americans. Now, in addition to the 2008 world billionaire’s list, the 5 inspiring OFW entrepreneurs, and the successful and inspiring Pinoy Entrepreneurs, let’s see who [...]

The  Reyes family of restaurant fame is a one huge clan  – but there is only one Reyes who founded, owns and operates the Reyes Barbecue brand name upon which a chain of restaurants has sprung. This person is Mr. Francisco “Frank” Reyes.

There are problems with this title. First, it might be interpreted to refer to a particular person. While we have a category on (and some lists of) successful and inspiring Pinoy Entrepreneurs, the thrust of this article is not to identify any particular Pinoy Entrepreneur, but to characterize an entrepreneur. Having a characterization would make [...]

We’ve discussed GoNegosyo under the Internet & Tech category and we’ve also discussed the book in the previous post on Succcessful and Inspiring Filipino Entrepreurs. We’ve just realized, however, that we forgot to include a separate entry for this book under the Books category. This is a significant oversight because this is a book that [...]

In today’s trip to the grocery, my wife bought a Goolai salad pack. After around 3 years since I last worked in Makati, this is the first time I again encountered Goolai (produced by Gemmarc Foods, Inc./Agri-Growers Multi-Purpose Cooperative). I hate vegetables, then and until now, but I survived two weeks of purely Goolai lunch [...]