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The Ends is Just the Beginning

“Nobody is ever ‘too busy’, if they’re interested, they’ll make time.”

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A busy week, indeed! but never that ‘too busy’ though. How is this entreprenurse doing today? 

After all, I got this feeling of being FREEE! Yet, I want to tell a story of how my week went...

We have this 3-Lecture Series in this subject and all of them gave us not just insights but motivation as well. We first have this Intellectual Property Rights from Dr. Dumancas. She’s pretty well versed, of course, that’s obvious because of her background. As we go through developing our skills in entrepreneurship, we slowly have these small ideas to start up a business. In relation to her discussion, it is very important to protect ideas. During our final pitching, our panel, Ms. Canete asked us about our manufacturer of vending machine. To be honest, we don’t have any idea with our key resource (which is the Philippine Vending Machine Corp.) but what she told us about is that, “it is very important to be certain on your manufacturer because they can take advantage of it, they can easily copy your idea.” With that comment, it helped us to build cautiousness in our actions and decisions.  

Just a sort of a meme to be funny. BUT, being intellectual does not mean you have to be the SMARTEST. Just by simply coming up with an idea makes you CREATIVE and creativity is an intellectual property. 

Second lecture series is about Ms. Nacua’s start-up journey of Ehatid. She said, “don’t bite what you can’t swallow”. She reminds us to be always certain with our decisions and better anticipate your actions since she does not want us to fall like them in their early stage of start-up. 

On the third lecture series, Ms. Lacadin gave us strategies on how to ace during start-up pitching. This is somehow my ‘favorite’ lecture series among the three because I was enlightened by the explanation of what is ‘elevator pitch’ about or, on how it is named. Since I am a fan of K-drama Start-up, I now understand its specific scene where the father of Dal-mi is together in the elevator with the CEO of Sandbox talking about business proposal. The term ‘elevator pitch’ is literally seen on that scene since Ms. Lacadin explained to us that CEOs live on the top floor and they are always busy. So the only time they could cater start-up proposal is in the elevator where it usually last for 60-90seconds. The lesson there is that, you have to be very precise at the same time very convincing when you pitch your ideas. 

During our final pitching, we had a 5minute pre-recorded pitch to present our business, PRO-tech Vendo. Overall, the panel only made specifics about our manufacturer because then again, she was concerned that our vendo will be copied by others. 

Now that we’re done with our final pitching, it is time to apply it in real life. We may not start up our business yet, but we could start up a lot of ideas coming from the lessons we learned in this subject. This may be the last activity, but this is just the beginning of something entrepreneurially amazing! 

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Let’s call it a day!

t has been a tough time these days but I could still recall how our day shined brightly at the end of our midterm pitching. 

I thought the k-drama, “Start up” is not real. I mean, I thought the phrase only exist on that series. But it’s real! We basically did a “pitching” online and the concept is really similar to the drama. 

Our Journey in the midterm pitching way back was full of tension. Even if we did have a prerecorded presentation, we still had this nerve-racking feels! 

“What if we cannot answer the follow-up questions??”

“What is we fail to defend the feasibility of our product??”

“What if our instructor is not satisfied with our answers??”

Those were the questions left hanging in our minds within the 5-minutes pre-recorded presentation. But then, we anticipated all possible questions to be asked and further information to be assessed. We prepared them all! The night before pitching, our group gathered in a meet and we had this agenda:

“If we can provide answers to these anticipated questions of ours, then we can probably do a good performance tomorrow”

 Yes! in short we are determined.

What I like with my group is that, we always have teamwork and they are cooperative. I think most of us shared an answer during the pitching and I can see that we have prepared them all beforehand. Literally though, the questions asked by our instructor are the once we had discussed ahead! I can see the potential in our product since we are asked with its long term goals or the “vision”. 

“Would it still be useful even if the infection rate of pandemic loosen up?” 

Of course! Now that we had a history of global health crisis in this generation, people will become MORE conscious with regards to their health. 

We are humble enough to be proud of what we had done in our business model canvas. We gave all the credits to ourselves and now, the group is about to face a heavier responsibility as we go along to the final stage of our BMC pitching and ironically, it will be the beginning of our start-up journey. 

From that day forward, our group will bring the lessons learned in this entire semester. We are ought to become nurses- as we should be, but to have an entrepreneurial mind will make our lives more convenient. 

That would be all. Let’s call it a day! 

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Entreprenurse Journey Starts Today

Hello!! You and I are finally back! We had a tough week lately but nothing is more important than finally making it through... slowly.

Nothing is new. Same situation where COVID-19 virus is everywhere, that is why our team had planned to “why not make this pandemic a little bit fancy?”. We mean, since facemask is a necessity, why not look like Billie Eilish?

Yes, we planned to make a facemask that is not too repetitive and monotonous, but of course it is health-wise. Considering some features that has antimicrobial diffuser, convenience with the strap, and transparent so that cosmetics will bring back its trend. Unfortunately, that was just our FIRST PLAN. We did not hesitate to drop the idea after being evaluated by our instructor for the reason that, obviously. it’s common. 

So we did explore possibilities! Of course, we went back to the very beginning... 

We followed our instructor’s advise that observing people is important, to find out a problem with regards to something where business can make benefit. So each one of us proposed a product in relation to our observation and mine was a smart umbrella. For a reason that, if a person experiences a sudden and unexpected change of the weather, schedules set prior will likely to be postponed or even it can alter his physiologic response to such unexpected stimuli. This smart umbrella can detect the temperature, weather, and humidity while in use, as well as it will transition from transparent to off-black shade umbrella whenever it detects sun rays. Suggestions of others also come up with a convertible wheelchair into a crutches, cloth facemask that has an antimicrobial factor, hair spray, face mask sanitizer, and PPE vending machine.

Out of all suggestions, the team finally made a choice of choosing the PPE vending machine! We found out that this is existing in Canada and Japan, however it is remotely placed in airports only. For that reason, we planned to put this up in public places where there are a lot of people.  They can easily access if they forgot to bring face shield (which is a common scenario) or if their facemasks were already worn out. If this happens, passers-by will not be left behind in protecting themselves against the virus. The team brain-stormed on what features are to add in product. Amazingly, we come up with an idea of a systematic vending machine which starts by dropping the money and immediately followed by an automatic hand sanitizer before touching the keys. This is to ensure the safety of users not getting contaminated. It would be ironic to think that we are selling PPEs but our machine is unsanitary...?? We have a lot of options to add as features in this vendo but we opt not to exaggerate since we prefer a low-maintenance machine to be realistic. 

The group ended up this kind of innovation and along our journey in making the concept, we effectively worked as a team and learned something even at the very beginning. We realized that it is important to come up with something out from a problem, and not from nowhere. We realized that it is okay to fail and best to receive critique and rejection, since this will lead us to come up with a much better improvement. 

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My First Bargained Thoughts

Hello, is it leads you’re looking for? Right.

Before anything else, I am humbled to have you reading my first blog but I am wondering what you’re feeling right now. Are you thinking the same too about me? Well, I think it does not matter. 

Sending my big thanks to this handy thing which allows me to share my thoughts online. It costs me almost nothing! But did you know, I am quite curious every time someone reads my posts, I am thinking what will their reactions be. Just to be frank, I am not extremely grateful with the evolving technology, but I don’t hate it that much either. I just realized it while we were having this entrepreneur class days ago that technology is slowly stealing the traditional way of how things actually work. For example, this. Yes this! The way you’re reading my blog today using your handy thing is putting a barrier of us meeting each other personally instead.

Back to that class though, I’ve heard how technology benefits people. It makes their lives convenient. I am also amazed of that big town of companies, what was it again? Silicon Valley? I think that’s it. The network I am using today is powered by Cisco- one of the companies inside the parameters of that big town. Imagine, from that place they manage to distribute their services all  the way to the different places of the world, and I am one of the people who has come to benefit it. Well, right now I am pretty convinced that technology makes anything possible. Not everything still, since I am not seeing your reactions while you’re reading this blog. If you request to use Facebook for a Video Call, what if I wanted to smell your hair while we talk? See, technology has still its limits. But, is smelling the hair necessary when we’re talking to someone? I think I’m just complicating things here. 

Before reaching too far, one thing that captures me during that class is the thought that says, “Failing isn’t a big deal”. 

Maybe I failed to believe that technology is not extremely great. Why? Because I am happy while I am making this blog. Many thoughts are wandering inside my head and if only I could put them to words, this blog might took a lot of time to read. Come to notice the irony of this phrase, “task failed successfully”. You see words that are contradictory to each other but it make sense! The same with my realization on that day that even if we fail, we won’t be failing a hundred percent because a part of it became our benefit- learning. Right! By the time we fail, we learned something and that means we are gaining, not losing. 

While I am making this blog, I am wrong that technology is a barrier of you and me talking face to face. And you know what, I have learned something! I have learned that my realization makes sense- it is way better that my bargained thoughts came across yours than nothing at all. 

And if someone thinks about technology like me ever again, then they may perfectly fit with that lady isolated in a bubble. If you don’t fit to an environment, there’s no way you can demand for the environment to fit you, that is why you become isolated. Why not change your thoughts from now on (like me) that technology really helps people! Because If you read again this blog from the start, I said that I am thankful of this handy thing for making my bargained thoughts came across yours...

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