OpenCoffee Club Comes to Manila
The OpenCoffee Club is a new initiative to bring together entrepreneurs, developers and investors around the world. In a testament to the viral power of online networking, they’ve already got chapters in 51 cities within a span of just two months. Syndeo Media’s Hans Koch just started a Manila chapter.
First meetup’s Thursday at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Greenbelt 3, Makati. I can’t make it that day, but do check it out if you can. The Philippines is getting left behind, and we need to put good ideas in front of investors.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Greenbelt, Hans-Koch, Investment, Makati, OpenCoffee, Philippines, Syndeo-Media
June 5, 2007 | Filed Under Entrepreneurship, Investment, Philippines | 3 CommentsGoogle Acquisition Tip: Go Crazy
Wanna sell something to Google for a billion dollars? Here’s a tip: go crazy.
“We look at everything very carefully,” Salman Ullah, Google’s director of corporate development, said yesterday in a speech at a meeting of the Los Angeles Venture Association. “The really crazy ones do really well.”
“The crazy ones mean they ignore the usual restraints of investment levels required or design parameters or ‘Gee I need more servers than anyone ever thought was possible’,” Ullah said. “When you free yourselves from these constraints, you create crazy, cool things.”
(Via John Batelle.)
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Google, Investment, Salman-Ullah, Search
April 13, 2007 | Filed Under Entrepreneurship, Investment, Search | 2 CommentsJapanese Execs Meet Filipino IT Luminaries
Filipino businessman Chester Chi led a Japanese trade delegation to Manila this week. I met up with them at the Philamlife Tower Club yesterday afternoon, where Chester introduced his guests to Filipino IT luminaries. Read on for a peek into an international business meeting involving moe, cosplayers, and TCG booster packs. Read more
Tags: Animation, anime, Brocolli, Caloy-Alejandro, Chester-Chi, eCommerce, eGames, Erick-Kalugdan, Galaxy-Angel, Gaming, GCrest, Investment, Jake-San-Diego, Janette Toral, Japan, Joey Alarilla, Kenji-Sato, Kiyoshi-Nagasawa, Level Up, Load.com.ph, Masaru-Onogi, Philippines, Polence, Steve-Tsao, Takayuki-Shimoyama, Tantra, TransCosmos, WebMoney
November 10, 2006 | Filed Under Animation, Gaming, Investment, Philippines, eCommerce | 2 Comments-
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