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How to Find Support for your Startup
How to Find Support for your Startup Most entrepreneurs feel a sense of pride when, from the ground up through hard work and innovation, their startup finally gets the ball rolling. But there is only so much one can do for their startup without adequate…
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1,000 #startups by 2020
“1,000 #startups by 2020” – DOST Undersecretary Rowena Guevara One way to get to this goal is through building more “Technology Business Incubators” (TBI)s around the country. The Philippine government’s Department of Science and Technology (DOST) funded 14 university-based TBIs until last November 24, 2017…
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DOST Funded TBIs
On November 24, 2017, the Innovation Council (DOST-PCIEERD) in partnership with UP Cebu, UP Cebu inIT TBI and TechTalks.ph will be organizing the 1st Philippine TBI Summit at Parklane Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. “Technology Business Incubation (TBI) is one of the strategies identified by…
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CREATE Philippines 2017, A masterclass and trade event
Exhilarating. That is how, from the point of view of a creative, how I describe the Create Philippines event. Dubbed as an annual industry development platform that showcases the Philippines’ Creative and Content Industries to an international market, it has been one exciting ride during…
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DOST-PCIEERD Grants for Philippine Startups
TechTalks.ph has been a proponent of Philippine startups and as part of our ongoing efforts as startup enabler and ecosystem builder, it is our joy to be the bearer of good news. The Philippine government’s Department of Science and Technology (DOST) recently funded five (5)…
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So Many Events, So Little Time
If there is one thing that would serve as a sign that a community is thriving – events would be on the top of the list. Besides, what would you call an ecosystem that involves startups without having everyone converge in one place to learn,…
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Top 5 Things Investors Look For In Philippine Startup
The Philippines’ startup community is thriving and because of that establishing a startup business in the country would be a perfect idea since the country is rich in resources and has prevalent local and international trades. That is why, Philippines would be a good place for…
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Payoneer Holds Successful Forum for SME & Freelancers in Cebu
CEBU CITY – TechTalks.ph partners with Payoneer Philippines for Payoneer Forum Cebu for the second time. Around 200 small and medium entrepreneurs (SME), freelancers and business processing outsourcing (BPO) professionals gathered at Marriot Hotel, Cebu City on May 27, 2017, from 1 PM to 6…
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Leadership & Teamwork as Building Blocks of Community Building
CEBU CITY – Business owners and entrepreneurs should know that one of the most important assets of a company is its people. Having a successful recruitment and hiring department is good but making sure the people are aligned, and their positions are suitable for them…
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5 Tips To Make Your Digital Marketing Strategy Successful
For a ship to sail, it needs to have a destination. Same thing applies to Digital Marketing. If you don’t have a plan in place, how can you expect to grow and innovate, to measure meaningful results and to learn from past mistakes?
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The Importance of Having a Solid Team In your Startup
No man is an island. Same goes with startups, no matter how hard one try, one cannot do everything on his own.
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Content Marketing from Your Smartphone to Your Audience Workshop | May 13, 2017
Content isn’t ‘stuff we write to rank higher’ or ‘infographics’ or ‘long-form articles.’ Content is anything that communicates a message to the audience.
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Digital Literacy for CEO & Decision Makers Workshop | May 11, 2017
As a CEO, or Decision-Maker, how do you juggle between business development & managing your day-to-day operations? How do you accelerate “Digital Transformation” in your organization when you are not digital expert yet?
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Founders Friday with Eddie Ybañez of Cebu-based Taxi App MiCab
Eddie Ybañez fondly recalls his journey with MiCab and the many uncertainties and multiple challenges they experienced.
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Top 5 Social Media Channels For Your Business
The traditional word of mouth is no longer enough in the digital age . Getting more customers in your business and making it successful requires a lot more in online and social marketing.
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Pitching Workshop with Brian Tan Seng
Pitching is essential for business growth and success. So, how do you create a really good pitch? Does it really have a formula?
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The Adventure Entrepreneurs + Social Media Clinic Workshop
The adventurer- entrepreneurs and the passionate folks in doing great work to promote Cebu’s natural beauty gathered on April 5, 2017.
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Social Media Marketing (SMM): The Insiders Secret Workshop
The Social Media Marketing (SMM) : The Insider Secrets was held at the iioffice Cebu on April 22, 2017. The invited speakers were Tina Amper, founder of TechTalks.ph, Kareen Satorre, TechTalks.ph Marketing Manager and John Gleen “JL” Grava, TechTalks.ph Project Manager.
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Winners of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 : Visayas Semifinals
The Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 Visayas Semifinals was held on April 3, 2017 at the UP Negosyo Center, Lahug, Cebu. 3 Teams made it to the Regional Finals.
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MANILA Startup Ecosystem Canvas
For the Manila Startup Ecosystem (SE) Canvas, the output from the workshop is provided in this blog. There is a need to validate the individuals and organizations submitted by the participants.
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88 Reasons to not have an all men panel in Southeast Asia
Most of the panels in the conferences consisted of men. So in this article, we would like to share 88 reasons on how to avoid this situation.
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Superheroes wanted
The organization behind Geeks on a Beach and Founder’s Friday is looking to hire superheroes and aspiring superheroes. Full-time. Cebu or Manila-based.
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Tech Saves Lives. Is Cancer a Death Sentence?
On February 8, 2017, Takeda Healthcare Philippines, Inc. (THPI) hosted a conference entitled “Access to Innovative Medicine: Focus on Cancer; a Philippines Health Forum in support of health for Juan and Juana”.
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Hooray to 2016, Cheers to 2017!
TechTalks.ph welcomes diversity and provides opportunities. To our partners, the people we have worked with and to those who have supported us, may you reach the maximum impact of the truth that it is always #BetterTogether.
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Cebu City Tech Startup Ecosystem Canvas
This blog post shows a couple of documents generated from Dr. Sheryl’s PhD Thesis entitled “Technology Startup Ecosystem in Cebu City, Philippines”
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Technology Startup Ecosystem in Cebu City
In this blog post shows the Summary of the thesis paper from Dr. Sheryl Satorre entitled “Technology Startup Ecosystem in Cebu City, Philippines”.
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Job Hiring: Digital Marketing Coordinator [CLOSED]
MoPro is looking for talented, creative and self-motivated marketing person to join their team.MoPro builds and maintains mobile-responsive websites for small businesses all around the world.
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TechTalks.ph announces Cebu Digital Marketing Festival come November
In this digital world, one cannot probably last a day without checking Facebook, posting one’s lunch on Instagram, or tweeting about the latest happening. Marketing practitioners must take this into account
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Successful startups come in many flavors
Successful startups come in many forms. In Silicon Valley, a startup who has “exited” – gotten sold or acqui-hired* is seen as being successful.
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Get started the right way, register a company in Cebu.
The common factor in big businesses that even when they initially started as small—from a garage or from a home office—is that they started by complying with all the legal requirements of doing business.
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Planting the GOAB Seed to a Startup Founder
This is the heart of GOAB, to build the community. This process takes sowing and reaping, and the joy we get in sowing seeds is as priceless as the joy we get in seeing startups reap the rewards.
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Corporate Innovation Services
So what does the future hold for the tech & innovation industry working with global corporate brands? And where does the TechTalks.ph brand of passion and ecosystem building fit in these?
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GOAB Cheat Sheet
5 things to make GOAB work for you. GOAB is an amazing platform, but are you up and ready to get the most of it?
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The Cream of the Crop in the Takeda Digital Healthcare Innovation Challenge
With this event, TechTalks.ph experienced how corporations can benefit from engaging with and connecting with innovators and millenials who have new ideas to solve the world’s problems.
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Cebu startups gets support from DTI with Startup Mentoring Program
TechTalks.ph (TT) is thrilled with the support from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) of the local startup community. DTI is proposing to fund “Launchpad” Startup mentoring program here in Cebu
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SlingshotPH Meets the Queen City of the South
If anyone would want a startup ecosystem, a road must be built. SlingshotPH comes in as one of the key foundations to make sure everyone takes the right road towards the right direction.
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Who will be the cream of the crop for the Takeda Digital Healthcare Innovation Challenge?
It’s been an exciting journey gathering innovative minds and bringing them together. The time has come to determine the team with the most relevant and innovative solution in helping cancer patients in the Philippines.
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Global Pharmaceutical Amplifies Call for Digital Innovation
Takeda has launched its second meet up leading to the August 6 pitching competition. TechTalks.ph, the country’s pioneer startup ecosystem builder, was tasked to organize the meetup through its connection with the local startup community.
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StartupPH.org is Born
StartupPH.org: Finally charting the future of the startup community with key stakeholders from startups to government, academe, corporate and other sectors. Moving forward to a more structured approach towards an umbrella organization.
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Tech Startup Recognizes Takeda’s Progressive Approach on Technology
If you are a startup founder, funder or advocate and you have access to developing innovative solutions in the healthcare industry, we are inviting you to join the Digital Healthcare Innovation Challenge.
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Takeda DHIC: Tech Meets Healthcare
Techtalks.ph, one of the pioneers in the startup ecosystem building in the Philippines, organized a meetup to bring together, in the same room, local tech startups and global pharmaceutical giant – Takeda.
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Founder’s Friday 2.0
We’ve set the next Founder’s Friday on May 6, 2016 at the Skypark of SM Seaside – Vis-Min’s largest mall.
Aside from insights that you’ll learn from the speakers, we will also be having an open discussions in relation to Startup community and tech industry in general.
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Organizations Supporting the Philippine Startup Community
Despite the emergence of local startup groups, innovation hubs, venture capitalists, angel investors and a number of launched government initiatives, the Philippines startup ecosystem is still considered small compared to other countries.
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Why so many “Innovation” events?
“At the end of the day, the innovators need to speak up and guide the government, and the government needs to listen up and support in the long run if everyone wants to get serious in our ICT community.”
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Fostering A Thriving Philippine Startup Ecosystem
How do you foster a thriving Philippine Startup Ecosystem? Are you an advocate of innovation? Take part in building our innovation ecosystem.
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Trade & Industry Reps Meet Founders in One Roof
It’s April Fool’s Day but everyone in Founder’s Friday is in serious business especially that we have DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) in the room with us.
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Attention: Community Builders – We are “open-sourcing” TechTalks.ph
Attention: Community Builders – We are “open-sourcing” TechTalks.ph 😉 We’ve done it for 3.5 years, time to #crowdsource and let it roll!
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How I learned to organize events, and grow a community.
“Give to get”. Show them that you’ve done something before you ask.
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Content Strategy Masterclass
A two-day, hands-on workshop to align your current marketing efforts to that of a digital content approach. Make use of trends and techniques to push your brand to a wider audience to meet corporate targets – whether increasing revenue, promoting engagement, or becoming a market leader.
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Media Advisory PGUIRR Agribusiness Meeting
Media Advisory PGUIRR Agribusiness Meeting 2016 from techtalksph
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Job Hiring: Software Developer [CLOSED]
If you want to learn from and be challenged by a team of highly qualified peers who play at your level, and if you like to get your hands on new technologies, you’ll be right at home here.
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Job Hiring: Outbound Sales Agent [CLOSED]
DNA Micro, Inc. is a technology services company focused on bringing our clients vision into reality. Apply now.
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Job Hiring: Senior Developers [CLOSED]
Arcanys is looking for Software Integration Expert! Do you think you have what it takes? Apply now.
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Job Hiring: Software Integration Expert [CLOSED]
Arcanys is looking for Software Integration Expert! Do you think you have what it takes? Apply now.
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Job Hiring: Marketing Intern [CLOSED]
We are looking for a passionate and digital minded member to join our growing team and help us make this world a better place!
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Job Hiring: Events Coordinator [CLOSED]
Be part of TechTalks.ph, the team behind the exciting tech events such as Geeks on a Beach and Startup Weekend Philippines. We are looking for a passionate and digital minded member to join our growing team and help us make this world a better place!
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DOST – ICTO, TechTalks.ph, and 1337 Ventures to run first Alpha Startup Bootcamp in the Philippines
DOST – Information and Communications Technology Office, in partnership with 1337 Ventures and TechTalks.ph, is set to run a pre-accelerator program for startups in their early ideation and validation stages. The Alpha Startup Bootcamp will be on its pilot run in the Philippines this November, kicking off with a boot camp in Cebu City on November 9 – 13, 2015.
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Job Hiring: Software Engineers [CLOSED]
If you want to learn from and be challenged by a team of highly qualified peers who play at your level, and if you like to get your hands on new technologies, you’ll be right at home at DNA Micro, Inc.
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First Startup Weekend brings Zamboanga in the Startup Loop
“Zamboanga is finally in the startup loop. We can now look forward to innovative ideas from there to help solve real world challenges.”
Thus said Department of Science and Technology Information and Communication Technology Office (DOST-ICTO) Deputy Executive Director Mon Ibrahim after the launching of the first-ever Startup Weekend in Zamboanga City last August 28-30.
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Top 9 Reasons Why You Gotta Be at GOAB
It’s that time of the year again where we geeks wish we were relaxing at the beach, instead of staying huddled in front of our laptops and gadgets. With our thoughts running a mile a minute and jumping from one project to another to keep…
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My Awesome StartUp Weekend Cebu 5 Experience
It was a such an enriching experience — seeing different nationalities gathered in one event, pitch there idea and create a group to formulate a business. The essence of this activity also is, how you work in a group. Team work is really the key to achieve your goal in this activity.
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[Part 2] CebUxD Meetup: Design is at VOX Media by Ted Irvine
Growing to one of the most popular and respected online media publisher, it’s interesting to learn how DESIGN plays a role in their business. Ted Irvine shared the 7 aspects they consider in their DESIGN.
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Startup Weekend Cebu 5: Fire Pitches that Made into the Top 3
Startup Weekend Cebu 5 is organized by Techtalks.ph headed by Dulce Lada and The Lemon Collective headed by Timmy de Jesus of JFDI (Singapore Startup Accelerator / Incubator with office in Cebu).
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Startup Cloud Camp goes to Iloilo
Startup Cloud Camp, a free and fun event focused on “cloud solutions” or business services that involve the storage and accessing of your data and programs over the internet instead of your computer’s hard drive, will go to Iloilo City come Saturday, June 6, 2015.
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[Part 1] CebUxD Meetup: UX @ VOX Media with Ted Irvine
The digital media publishing industry is currently abuzz with the latest acquisition of the technology site, RE/CODE, by VOX Media’s. So what does it mean? Well for one, it showed that there is really a now and future in online publication. And, Philippines happens to be big consumers of online content. In a country with great demand to consume contents with a not congested digital media content supplier, it can mean opportunity.
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CCCI creates committee to help nurture startups
THE Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry has created a startup committee, a move that they hope will spur the startup ecosystem in Cebu.
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Startup Weekend launched in Cebu
ANYONE can pitch any business idea at this year’s Startup Weekend Cebu on June 5 to 7.
The 5th startup event in Cebu since its launching in 2012, this year’s event is general-themed.
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Workshop for tech startups set today in Dumaguete
A CEBU-BASED nonprofit technology organization TechTalks.ph will bring Microsoft Philippines to Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental for a first-ever Startup Cloud Camp today at Foundation University.
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Geeks On A Beach 2015 Press Launch at TechTalks.ph Kapihan
TechTalks.ph will officially launch the highly anticipated Geeks on a Beach on Thursday, May 21 (9am) at Azia Suites and Residences. Geeks on a Beach (GOAB) is an international conference of startups, tech innovators and icons from the communications, gaming, and design industries.
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Microsoft, TechTalks join forces to boost Philippine startup ecosystem
TO BOOST the country’s start-up ecosystem and generate more investible ideas among startups, Microsoft Philippines and TechTalks.ph, a non-profit organization of technology, business and startup enthusiasts, are rolling out a series of “Startup Camps” across the country.
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We are Hiring: Finance and Admin Officer
Be part of TechTalks.ph, the team behind the exciting tech events such as Geeks on a Beach and Startup Weekend Philippines. We are looking for a passionate and digital minded member to join our team and help us make this world a better place!
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TechTalks.ph joins Microsoft for ‘ Startup Camps’
TechTalks.ph, a non-profit organization of technology, business, and start-up enthusiasts partners with Microsft Philippines to offer ” Startups Camps” in various cities in the Philippines.
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TechTalks.ph partners with Microsoft Philippines for “Startup Camps”
TechTalks.ph, a non-profit organization of technology, business, and startup enthusiasts, partners with Microsoft Philippines to offer “Startup Camps” in various cities in the Philippines.
“Startup Camps” is a free and open to the public one-day workshop. It is designed for aspiring entrepreneurs, startup founders, academe (professors, students) and those interested in starting their own technology-based businesses or “startups”. -
Winners of the Student Innovation Cup 2015
Be part of TechTalks.ph community, sign up here >>. *** Student Innovation Cup is going to be an annual campus-wide pitching and demo competition by students from different schools organized by TechTalks.ph. We saw that college thesis requirements and capstone projects take lots of time…
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5 Creative Ways OLX.ph & Istorya.net Grew Their Businesses
In the first TechTalks.ph Kapihan, the two special guests from online marketplace players, OLX.ph & Istorya.net, mentioned that one of their major challenges was the Philippine internet infrastructure.
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TechTalks.ph Kapihan: Getting Cebuanos To Earn Online
For the 1st edition of TechTalks.ph Kapihan, here’s a quick profile of one of the brains behind the Goliath of online marketplaces. Maria Regina Aguilar started her career as a business and economic journalist for seven years in Cebu Daily News, Business World, and Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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TechTalks.ph Kapihan: Minding Others’ Business… Online!
The Philippines is one of the most active users of online social sites, and so is home to some of the largest malls in the world (Source: Hufftington). Does it translate to a very active ecommerce scene? or are we merely window shopping? Therefore, is it worthwhile for businesses to go online?
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Beyond Tech: TechTalks.ph Kapihan
The TechTalks.ph Kapihan is about meaningful conversation, and spreading it. It’s an event to gather personalities from different sectors of the society, not limited to tech startup, together with media people and social influencers to tackle relevant issues and positive stories worth spreading.
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GSD: Word from Salarium Payroll’s Judah Hirsch
Out of 36 startup regional winners, then down to *10 finalists, Manila, Philippine-based startup Salarium Payroll won the Seedstars World (SSW) competition held on February 5, 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland. SSW is a global startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes.
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#throwback: Founders’ Friday
It was a fun night of reminiscing the early days of Techtalk meetups, and a serious night of discussing of how to move the tech startup scene forward. People were there not to talk about their own products or services, but of the Cebu tech startup community. So let this post serves as an introduction of the who’s who of the Cebu tech startup community.
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PiktoChart: Be a “Yet Another Studio”
The Head of Design, Chow See Mei, of Piktochart (one of the hottest tech start-ups based in Southeast Asia), is here in Cebu for vacation. We’re lucky to get some of her time to share with us about piktochart, design, infographics, and what she likes about Philippines in her “Let’s Talk About Design & Infographic” at The Tide, an affordable co-working space in Cebu City.
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A Day for StartUps and Technopreneurship
The phrase may seem rather simple, but attending the IdeaSpace Technopreneurship Bootcamp made me see how much meaning that phrase really held. If you think about it everything starts with an idea; people put up banks because it’s their idea to keep the people’s money safer, schools were put up because it’s their idea to have a better community with educated individuals, and startup businesses can come from any possible idea thinkable, it doesn’t matter how big or small.
