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
Dr. Gary Bunagan, eye Doctor at St Lukes Medical Center
Raymund Arnold S. Alberto
