Though this post is a few months old, it ranks up high as one of my blog’s most popular ones. Just thought I’d post it again.

It’s about a way of thinking prevalent among Pinoy entrepreneurs, something I call the “sari-sari mentality.”

The sari-sari mentality is a style of entrepreneurship wherein a person, either because of the lack of ingenuity or creativity required to come up with a totally unique business model, or at the very least the refusal to take the financial risk of putting up a unique venture, invests in exactly the same type of business other people have invested in. The side effect? A marketplace awash in similar businesses. Don’t bother looking up this definition in some business book. I just made it up.

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This is an oasis in the midst of Makati’s business center — Greenbelt Mall; a wonderfully-designed sprawling commercial complex. Its overall architecture was designed to blend with its surrounding landscape; retaining both its urban and natural characters unlike the ubiquitous fully-enclosed monolithic template of SM Malls.

This mall offers numerous dining, entertainment, and shopping establishments, but among my favorites is Power Books. It comes close to New York’s Barnes & Noble and Border’s bookstores with its well-organized, wide selection of books, comfortable sitting areas, and a coffee shop. It also offers special events such as talks, exhibits, contests, poetry readings, group discussions, book clubs, author visits, book signings, and much more! In addition, this bookstore offers book reservation and special order services (Greenbelt 4 branch telephone: 757-6428 or 29).

But wait … there’s also a book fair going on this coming week over at….

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Today’s issue of the Asian Wall Street Journal says that the game is already afoot. This refers to an expected spate of leveraged corporate takeovers in the Asian region which promises some action for the Warrior Lawyer. continue reading

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If you have a blog or a website, you may be interested to know that you could actually earn money from it, and you don’t have to shell out a single cent up front.

So how exactly do you make money? Though there are a lot of potential ways of generating revenue from your blog or website, by far the easiest and simplest way (to my mind) is through affiliate/referral programs.

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I visited Groovenet.ph today and talked to one of the founders of Mobius Online Games (aka Digital Media Exchange, Inc.), who started a new company with the other dme/Mobius founders. Their first online game is There!, a Massively Multiplayer Online Social-Networking Game (MMOSNG).    Read more…

With all the free offerings of web applications available right now on the web. I’m beginning to wonder whether there’s even a need to buy software anymore. The biggest of these companies of course is Google.

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I originally posted this ad in my blog last year. Despite some interest, unfortunately, nothing fell through. As such, the offer still stands.

In case anyone is interested in purchasing a commercial lot in QC (build that call center you’ve always wanted. ) visit this blog entry. Who knows? This may be exactly what you’re looking for.

Since my online business is a SOHO, it’s not exactly a formal business address. Customers often ask me to see me at my office. I haven’t given much thought in having an office space. That’s why I considered on looking into a virtual office. Continue reading?

My father, though born in Subic, Zambales, studied in Manila from elementary to college and lived at my grandfather’s cousin’s house in Binondo; only to return to Subic during vacation. After graduating from college, along with his cousin as partner, they set up a business at Florentino Torres Street near C.M. Recto Avenue.

From the time I was old enough to go to the bathroom by myself, my father started taking me along to his office on Saturdays when he worked only until lunchtime. I was a quiet, cooperative child and could be left on a chair near him as long as I have a favorite toy in my hand to keep me occupied. But when I turned eight or nine, there were times boredom would spur me to sneak out of the office and gallivant on my own around Chinatown. Confident with my basic know-how of the various twists and turns of some of its narrow streets, I would usually end up at my favorite place — the pet shop that my father and I always passed by on our way to eat lunch.

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This may be David Street with Escolta up in the corner while Muelle del Banco Nacional (north bank of Pasig River) is right behind. The two buildings on the picture above: the beige on the left and the mustard on the far right corner are similar to the industrial buildings in downtown Manhattan — Soho and TriBeCa — which were converted into spacious living lofts. I emailed this picture to a friend in New York and told him that if some of the buildings in the Escolta area like these two were converted into living loft spaces, this neighborhood would make an ideal residence, especially for those who wish to stay in Manila. Gardens could also be set up on the roofs just like on some of the buildings in New York.

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One early morning, my sister-in-law called me on my cellphone from New York demanding to know what the deal was with this 168 Mall in Divisoria that she keeps hearing about from her recent balikbayan friends. Groggily, I told her this mall has stores that sell knockoff name brand merchandise from China at dirt-cheap prices. When she asked how the distributors and retailers are able to make any profit, I replied in jest that they were merchandise skimmed off the top portion of humongous shipping containers; that these counterfeit products are primarily used to camouflage the more valuable stuff at the bottom — shabu; otherwise known as crystal meth in New York. But I was wise enough to quickly retract what I had just told her, though there were rumors alleging smuggling at the heart of this mall’s operations.

She is an accountant and has worked at various companies in the fashion industry and cognizant of the adverse affects of this flood of fake products in the U.S. — from the fifteen-dollar Hermes scarf to fifty-dollar Prada clutch bag from China and Korea. And despite the authorities’ efforts, smuggled knockoffs remain to be a multi-million dollar headache for both the government and the garment industry.

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A typical solar PV panel system for small load application like charging station and low load houses, where electrical loads are mostly composed of lighting and low powered appliances like transistor radio, is composed of three parts; Read the entire entry …

It’s final, no In-text Ads and Google Ads on the same page people. So clean up before you get banned from AdSense but you’re willing to take it and switch to Kontera for your monetization needs. Tough competition isn’t it?

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My trial for Friendster ADs or FADs has ended (thanks to Friendster Philippines for a trial).

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DirectSong.Com’s Support System seems to be “unsupported”. I sent a ticket since April 13, 2006 at 9:43:44 AM and posted 3 follow-ups (the last one was on May 18) and until now they have not responded. Read more…

Will Krispy Kreme Doughnuts give Go Nuts Donuts a tough competition or nothing will change?

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National Power Corporation to Loss Heavily in the Electricity Market

The reduction of electricity prices in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) looks like a good news in a first glance, but if you are going to look forward in the future, this could be a source of the recurring bad news. [read more..]

Before the second world war, Davao was “Davao-kou” or Little Tokyo to many Japanese nationals. As much as 25,000 Japanese were living in Davao making it one of the largest concentration of Japanese outside of Japan itself.

The first Japanese to reach Davao in 1903 were workers hired by the new American colonizers (after Spain sold the Philippines to the US for $20 Million in the 1898 Treaty of Paris) for the agricultural plantations in this vast region.

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