Comments on: Are Filipinos Biased Against Entrepreneurship?

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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:34:06 +0000

[...] fact, business-oriented. This is in stark-contrast to the often maligned notion of the Filipino as culturally biased against entrepreneurship, and having a seek-employment mentality as opposed to a business-oriented [...]

By: jozzua

jozzua — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:40:54 +0000

I believe there has been a resurgence of interest for Philippine Entrepreneurship in the last year or so but the support has definitely been lacking. As the Google trends indicate, the word 'entrepreneurship' were searched mostly by Filipinos. This has actually lead our company to try and marketing Philippine eCommerce services. We've had lukewarm interest so far. However, if you do check on the Entrepreneur Support Groups such as Entreplink (as Mr. Limjap indicated), it is quite lively and opportunities do abound. I think the seeds have been planted. Whether the trends bear fruit, we would see in the following years.

By: Crissy

Crissy — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:12:54 +0000

This was the topic in Real Stories with Loren Legarda last night. She had a panel interview featuring Joey Concepcion, Cecilio Pedro (of Lamoiyan/hapee), Vivian Tan of Entrepreneurs’ School of Asia (formerly known as Thames, she’s also the daughter of Lucio Tan) and Ronald Pineda of Folded and Hung. I appreciate the optimism of the panelists, and they admit that people are afraid to get into their own businesses.

By: Jon Limjap

Jon Limjap — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:02:33 +0000

mayet,

That’s exactly my point. The government should make it easier for SMEs to set up.

AT present, I admire DTI – Philippine Trade Training Center’s efforts: they are offering several half-to-three day seminars on various business-related topics, which range from 50 pesos to no more than 4000 pesos for some five-day topics. You can access scehdules for these trainings at this url: http://www.business.gov.ph/Trade_Events_.php?categoryGroup=Local%20Trainings%20and%20Seminars

For support groups, search for these groups in Yahoo! Groups (groups.yahoo.com) for discussions on personal finance, investment, trading and entrepreneurship:
EntrepLink
Pwede Na! Personal Finance

Hope these help.

By: mayet

mayet — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:52:30 +0000

small businesses are not treated very well in this country. naka-focus lahat sa MNCs na kung iisipin kahit gano man kaliit yung ibang businesses, nagbabayad din yun ng taxes and nagpo-provide ng employment. what pisses me off the most is that yung maliliit na businesses sila pa yung diligent sa pagbabayad ng taxes while some of those large corporations maraming tinatago. and applying for a business permit would usually take sooo long (here in bacolod, i don’t know sa iba). sana nga talaga may mga support groups naman for small businesses.

By: Jon Limjap

Jon Limjap — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:41:33 +0000

pinoy,

Yep, nanghihinayang din ako dun sa remittances. If even 10 percent of that was spent in long-term investment within the country, laking pera nun sana na lalago.

As for the sari-sari store mentality, guess what Jinky Pacquiao put up with her husband’s money? :p

I’m glad, however, that there seems to be a steady rise of groups and organizations that seek to promote entrepreneurship and financial education amongst Filipinos. So there’s hope. I just hope that these efforts bear fruit before its too late.

By: pinoy

pinoy — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:56:10 +0000

I believe i also has something to do with our attitude as a people. We don’t want to take risks. Because we don’t to take the risk, we become copycats. We put our money where we believe it will have high returns simply because our neighbor dd it. It’s that sari sari store mentality. It’s more of the gaya gaya mentality. Our OFWs invest their earning only on jeepneys or tricycles. The family spends the rest of their remittances at the malls.

$10B worth of remittances last year! Imagine if this money is re invested to more productive endeavors?