Dr Gary Bunagan - Great Eye Practice, Great Organic Green Coffee Bean

Room 210, APS Building, Rockwell Center, Makati City

Dr. Gary Bunagan is an eye doctor who practices in Saint Luke Medical Center, friend of Dra Tamayo and acquaintance of  Dr. Apple. He studied at Ateneo de Davao.   He hails from Davao City and at the same time, a part time organic green coffee bean entrepreneur.  They have outlets at St Lukes Medical Center, H2 hotel, Bureau of Immigration and Perpetual Help Hospital (c/o Arnyt Tamayo).

His entrepreneurship activities include:   group practice in eye practice which enables him/the group to practice optha even though they are in the province or USA,  the organic coffee with spa, the development of cacao business in San Isidro, the cacao capital of Mindano Davao Oriental that led to eventual export abroad.  His interest is in CSI (Chocolate de San Isidro)  The southern Mindanao production of  5,000 metric tons (half of that coming from San Isidro) is barely enough to keep up with the domestic  demand of 40,000 metric tons.  

Coffee and cacao grow well in the PHL, they do not grow in temperate countries. 

Coffee, especially green coffee is useful in combatting high blood pressure and contains plenty of phytonutrients for long life.  Theobromine in dark chocolate is great in fat reduction and staying fit.

His theory of entrepreneurship is that of convergence of PASSION and DEMAND. (Similar to good to great:   Passion, where you are good at and economic engine: and the 3K:   KAYA BA, KATUGMA BA, KIKITA BA?

He came across the organic green coffee bean while in specialty training abroad.  He thought about this, and educating himself through books:    "52 Rules of Thumb"  "Start Up 101"
they came up with the one page plan:

l.  Save the environment;
2.  Serve the best quality coffee;
3.  Healthy diet,
4.  Coummunity employment
5.  Social responsibility

Some entrep advice:

l. "Start small, dream big"
2.  Small operating cost for selling coffee (because of small ordering size)
3.  What is next:   "What is new?, improve skills and products, stay alert and focusse"
4.  Aim high, nothing is impossible.

Green coffee bean corp 

Three Great Entrepreneur Guests of MBAH 10B, March 23, 2013 all agree - new ideas propel business

Rm 210, APS Building, Rockwell Center Makati City March 23, 2013

                                 Nelly See -from Mom to Mall retail tycoon


The MEntrep Class of MBAH 10 B on its last session had three great entrepreneur guests:   Nelly See of Pink Box,  Dr. Gary Bunagan of  Green Bean Organic Coffe Corp, and Raymund Arnold S  Alberto of RASA Surveying

They were all great entrepreneurs who had something great to share with the entrepreneur wannabees in the class.  It was too bad it was the last day of class.  Each one should have at least 3 sessions with the class;  but then again we had to pay them.

Nelly See did not have any power point nor notes but she was very comprehensive and very detailed on how she started her business out of desperation just to sell/get rid of  P762,000 worth of hair accessories that were mistakenly ordered due to language difficulty.  She said she applied to MBE.  My remark was that she did not need this.  She might need it for certification purposes.  But the fact that she has 30 corporate store and more than 40 franchise means she does not need MBA. { Maybe ACE/MBE should give her instead a doctorate honoris causa instead)

Dr. Gary Bunagan seem to be approaching his coffee beans like a serious hobby.  Still he could not leave the opthalmologist profession behind.  But the amount of time and the study that he put into the green coffee beans, and the kind of expansion they had undergone: to TMC, to H2 hotels, having SPA on the second floor of a building.  Having branches in Davao, exporting Cacao to Europe, giving jobs to San Isidro farmers in Isidro Davao Oriental (fortunately I saw the large cacao plantation there and Nestle purchasers told me, it is not worth their while to buy cacao from there)

RASA headed by Raymund Arnold S Alberto, brod of Bong Villamor at UP ME frat is the leader in surveying in the PHL, even employing a drone to conduct aerial survey.  He has a gone a long way from just dreaming to set up his own business on the way home to Ilocos after graduation. That was his only resource:  his Dream and his Passion to Achieve it.

Did the class note something very common among the three?  Yes it is about innovation.  New ideas daily... Nelly had to sometimes wake up her GM during the unholy hours lest she forget the new idea. Gary had to think of other opportunities to increase revenues and expand.  RASA always attend conventions abroad to be abreast of leading technology.  And yet we only have one new idea weekly....

Thank you guest entrepreneurs for great sharing.

Nelly See 

                                    Nelly See poses with her sponsoring group

                               Nelly See - are entrepreneurs born or made?

Dr. Gary Bunagan, eye Doctor at St Lukes Medical Center

                                Nelly See listens to Dr Gary

                                  Learning from great stories and books

 

                        Other book mentors of Dr. Gary;  try to read them esp Rules of Thumb

                      Awarding of Certificate of Appreciation and tokens, Dr. Tamayo is an investor

Raymund Arnold  S. Alberto

                                  UP brods:   RASA and Bong

                                   Picture with the sponsoring group (sorry it is blurred)