Is there such a thing as entrepreneurial genes? Can business skills be learned in school? Can entrepreneurship be sustained by passion? If the answer to these questions is “Yes,” then there is no way Mona Liza Lee-Serrano could have missed the entrepreneurial calling.
“Kung anong kinamulatan, siya ring pagkakatandaan” (Whatever you grew up with will be with you until old age). This folk saying underlies the BEST project of the Small Enterprises Research and Development Foundation (Serdef). BEST stands for Building an Enterprising Society Today, an enterprise education program for children at pre- and grade-school levels.
If a businessman who spent most of his life in a foreign country knows what kalburo (calcium carbide) means, there is no reason not to believe-or buy-what he’s selling.
When the father of Theo Angelo Garcia of Cauayan City in Isabela died, the job of taking over and developing the family business fell upon his young shoulders.
There are two sides to the current housing boom. The more visible side is the flurry of high-rise condominiums that are transforming Metro Manila’s skyline. Their prominence is matched only by their own giant billboards and splashy newspaper ads.
All his classmates in grade school were amused and, somehow, in disbelief that he knew every nook and cranny of vehicles.
“Give not a cup (of milk) but a cow” is Heifer International’s version of “Teach a man how to fish to feed him for life.”
Filipinos can now shop at the click of a mouse as Air 21 Global presents Shopinas, an e-portal with a fully-integrated end-to-end e-commerce and logistics solution housing one of the Philippines’ most competitive online malls.
He stepped out of the shadow of his famous father, former senator Ramon B. Magsaysay Jr. and grandfather Ramon Magsaysay when he launched Carmen’s Best.
The sari-sari, or variety, store is among the easiest businesses to get into, such that even the poorest of the poor manage to set up one even with just a few hundred pesos in capital.
Ingenuity and hard work, coupled with sheer luck, have spelled success for this man who has carved his niche in the electrical industry and helped aspiring entrepreneurs turn their business dreams into reality.
It started out as an ideal: marrying mission and money in enterprise. Likewise, the founders jested that they wanted a business that would sustain them as they age gracefully. It would have to be a low-profit, low limited liability company.
