Entrep talk by Buddy Silva - from nursing, MLM to logistics and high tech GPS system

Iloilo City   |  February 8, 2014

 

                                  Passion and the why are more important than the how

Today is the last session of Iloilo AGSB entrep.  We had our guest entrepreneur today hosted by group of Terence, Ramey and Jan -  Mr. Buddy Silva III .  He is an acquaintance of Terence.  The credentials of Buddy are impressive as he trained abroad under various marketing guru (courtesy of MLM outfit Forever Living.  At that time, he had downline numbering 3,000 who account for almost P40 million a month in WesternVisayas.

He finished nursing, and as fate had it, he moved into trucking and logistics serving the trucking needs of Western Visayas business.  (He is service provider of AM Builders (c/o Christian Rafael).  But his clients are mostly from Manila (who are outsourcing delivery to the provinces via the Roro nautical highway.)

His new business now is GPS tracking with telemetry of important vehicle function:  braking, braking habits etc. fuel consumption, emission (just like what they do at formula cars racing telemetry)  His consultants are specialist in this. The GPS is an apps he needed to run his trucking business well.  The latter is unique and he plans to offer this at P10t per which is affordable.  Coke which has l50 vehicles in Iloilo could be a customer.

                               A very young (he is only 38, he started when he was 24) entrepreneur

                                  Terence introduces the group's guest

                                 The class listens to the entrep talk of Mr Silva

                                    Mr. Buddy uses the whiteboard to explain context vs content

                                        Class picture with Mr. Buddy

                               Mr. Buddy with sponsoring group:   Ramey, Terence and Jan

He sees GPS as his growth and promising business (the star) which would make him well known world wide. Silicon Valley is communicating with him as one of the new techies to adopt -  one of the new l00 companies for the 2014.    Until 2016, he sees trucking in support of construction to be doing very well

For buddy, it is the What (the motivation that is more important) than How. The What will motivate you to know the steps how to get to your goal.

He names this from his training:   context vs content.  Context would be mindset.   Opening your mind to new learning is context.  Expanding mindset, changing the paradigm is context to accommodate more content.

Lunch at Tatoy in Arevalo, the owner was helped by dwarfs

Iloilo City, February 8, 2014

           Christian, Terence, Pam, Ramey, Joevic and Prof Jorge;  we had Coke products because of Ramey

I remember having been here twice:  once with our staff, and second with our JV partner in Oton Iloilo. The owner, Mr. Tatoy, a former fisherman was supposed to have been our guest instead of Mr. Silva, but the owner declined.  So after Buddy left, we proceeded to Arevalo. Taroy's resto is beside the sea, and occupies about a one hectare property.

We had fish:  boiled, fried, oyster, and lechon.  The class chipped roughly about P400.00 each.  I told them it is an expensive MBA to fete their professor weekly.  Thank you po.

                            Special upland rice, fish, coke, oysters;   Terence and Pam to the left

The right context - remove impossible from you mind; everything is possible

                                            The UI Motto

WALANG IMPOSSIBLE

Our Entrep guest today, sir Buddy, a nursing graduate turned MLM head for Forever Living in Western Visayas, said it is important to have the right context to be a great entrepreneur.   You have to expand your thinking to accommodate contents.

Or the other way around, you have to empty your mind of negative thoughts, and impossible and hardships.  All things are possible with  -  God. 

"Pag gusto, may paraan, pag ayaw maraming dahilan"