Philippine Startup Tech Blog - Latest Comments

Re: It’s all in the UI

starshiplove — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:03:15 -0000

There's a lot of interesting possibilities in this space and this is something I've been researching for a while now. APIs are of moderate importance now but a few years from now I think they're really going to be empowering people to create their own tools.

Re: Is it easy to run a startup?

starshiplove — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:01:07 -0000

Creating a startup is hard, and if you've never built up a business you don't understand the overall blood sweat and tears that goes into working 90 hours a week for months while making no money and taking huge risks. What's in common with the majority of startups is these 3 big problems. a) Building a minimal viable product and having the discipline to release it to the world as soon as its ready rather than taking months trying to add every feature imaginable. Programmers love programming and solving problems, so they have to have some judgement and courage to get stuff out there. b) Finding ways to get customers/users. Between email marketing, content marketing, approaching bloggers, advertising, and even flat out buying fans (the number of companies mentioned at www.buyfacebookfansreviews.com illustrates how there's almost too many options and choices) there's a ridiculous number of ways for a company to get customers. You have to analyze the data you have access to and try and figure out what kind of advertising works the best for your startup. c) You have to develop the right business model. Figuring out the proper pricing of a product is hard. Figuring out how and when and what to charge people is the difference between a business that flourishes and a startup that dies off in a year because the founder runs out of money. If you've never gone through a startup before you don't have the right type of firsthand experience in this and more young people would be suited to join a startup early in their career so they can learn some of these lessons.

Re: Where are the Filipinos in JFDI?

joepalala — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:49:25 -0000

I wish them the best of luck and am pretty curious as to how'd an international team come together :) (Note: Techcrunch says that it's from France and Philippines). Interesting!

Re: Where are the Filipinos in JFDI?

Hugh Mason — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:01:13 -0000

... and I'm delighted to confirm that team Collabspot, co-founded by Adler Santos, Gino Tria and John Louis Del Rosario from the Philippines, will be joining us for the next JFDI.Asia bootcamp!
http://techcrunch.com/2013/...

Re: We are the top three in JFDI applications

Victor Hou — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:47:06 -0000

Awesome post and insight into startups and entrepreneurs in PH. We are building a startup in the US http://www.trendstartr.com but have strong connections in Asia, where we have over 1000 users in PH already and growing quickly. I think no matter what where in the world, all users are people and often share similar desires/demand that startups should chase after

The culture is the biggest difference between the US and Asia startups, it's the culture and confidence of knowing you can fail once, twice, or 10 times but the next time may be the success.

Love to hear more about your idea for pitchapie and help you grow it and market it with our connections and platform

We are going to take over Asia in 2013

Re: Where are the Filipinos in JFDI?

squawknet — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:37:08 -0000

Thank you for clarifying :) It's great to hear that we're in the top 3 on the list!

Re: Where are the Filipinos in JFDI?

Hugh Mason — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:16:47 -0000

Apologies for any confusion here ... the post on our site wasn't intended to be a short-list of teams who will be joining us and it does not represent where applications came from, only the diversity of people writing in. I've updated a page listing detailed stats about where the applicants come from here: http://jfdi.asia/2013/01/03... and you will see that the Philippines is right up there in the top three :)

Re: Why we won’t go to Singapore just to pursue a Startup at this time

squawknet — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:54:31 -0000

though mengwong has a point here http://sgentrepreneurs.com/...

Re: Check your paper shit first before joining a startup

squawknet — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:09:43 -0000

Yes as a consultant you are not bounded to the company and company will take its time to pay you

Re: Check your paper shit first before joining a startup

Andre — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:33:04 -0000

you edited your post... so the comment isnt relevant anymore.

not rubbing it in but the tone and writing in your post made it seem like the company you applied to was the one who wronged you when what you described seemed to be typical company SOP.

Re: Check your paper shit first before joining a startup

squawknet — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:48:56 -0000

not sure if which questions were meant to be rhetorica questions. not sure what your problem is with my post. i'm already admitted my mistake, no need to rub it in.

Re: Check your paper shit first before joining a startup

Andre — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:03:57 -0000

If you find a company that will pay you for a job before you actually do anything let me know. Its also not in the law to pay an employee every 2 weeks.

If you are a contractor you might request a downpayment for your services but who'se fault is it if you don't read what you sign?

Re: Grove.io shuts down

Ben Adrian Sarmiento — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:42:44 -0000

IMO Xmpp/Jabber is the new IRC, that what Google hangout uses

Re: Pitching lessons

Ben Adrian Sarmiento — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:24:17 -0000

Pivot.

Re: Grove.io shuts down

Joah — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:55:20 -0000

Any old grove.io users looking for a new place for their chat? See http://www.alphachat.net/ch....

Re: Why I think Id rather work alone on my startup first then join startup weekend after I’m ready

sidlr — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:43:32 -0000

i rather work on my own startup, fail repeatedly and come back when I'm ready

as a JUDGE!!!

Re: TipidPC – How to get the best experience

Ndawgge1999 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:32:12 -0000

I feel you man... Also the tipidcp bitchass website sucks too. They banned my account because I posted something that is against them. They devalue the worth of the device by monopoly.

Re: Commute.ph has no way to profit?

Meljean Legaspi — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:32:36 -0000

Last night, I just thought about how commute.ph will earn money. What a coincidence? While thinking about it, I was searching the internet then I was able to read this post.

Actually, before I became aware of ph-commute and commute.ph, I'm thinking our government could help to implement this. What do I mean? We could get data from LTFRB and MMDA. But for a startup, maybe this idea may take too long to be done.

Not all of the Filipinos have smartphones. If a smartphone app will be created, it must be done to be useful not like other apps which you didn't use at all after playing with it for a short period of time. I also think that an SMS service could also help especially for people who don't have smartphones or mobile phones with internet connection.

Re: Commute.ph has no way to profit?

John Arce — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:08:03 -0000

Commute.ph is really hard to execute without a content available to users...

Jolo *must* begin by trying to address a really important problem worth solving... :)

Re: The Shoephoric Interview

Ragde Falcis — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:27:13 -0000

very nice

Re: All allowances taxable

Keith Bennett — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:06:41 -0000

In the USA, employer reimbursements to employees for out of pocket business related expenses (e.g. business travel) are not taxable income. However, bonuses, and substantial personal expense reimbursements (e.g. paying for an employee's personal vacation) are considered taxable income. These policies make sense to me. If the latter were not taxable income, then employers could shield arbitrarily large amounts of income from tax merely by structuring them as bonuses. In general, it's the wealthier who take advantage of such loopholes, leaving the less affluent workers to pay more than their fair share.

Re: Interview with Milo Felipe of Milobjects – creator of SignAppNow.com

Jolo Balbin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:08:58 -0000

Nice read. Pero parang nakulangan ako.

Re: Interview with Milo Felipe of Milobjects – creator of SignAppNow.com

Andre — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:04:38 -0000

good work, we need more of these interviews and profiles on our local startup scene :)

btw I dont think bootstrap means having 2 jobs, it means keeping costs low and only spending whats necessary, or working without outside funding/help /loans etc..

Re: Founders Drinks Manila

Andre — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:28:47 -0000

Dont think you should promote Create Abundance as there's a lot of negative press regarding their methods. The one you should mention is the official distributor for Philippines of Rich Dad Asia products/seminars - Laurus Enterprises. They run cashflow workshops every month at AIM for PHP1000 one time fee and you can go every time. There is no ulterior motive, no MLM business pitch, they just want to help people learn the cashflow game and think differently. Beware of others who use the game as a selling tool for something else.

Laurus Enterprises Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/La...

Re: Founders Drinks Manila

Jed Tiotuico — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:13:19 -0000

I think "brain drain" will always be a problem since our general mindset is to work abroad that might be hard to resist because it's in our culture since the 70's.