AGSB | H de la Costa Campus, Salcedo Village, Makati City | November 25, 2013
Today is the last day of the Sentrep Class. The last activity/event is the group work - Entrep Guest which is gets hefty number of points for the group work grade and they get a 4.0 for bringing the entrepreneur. I found this to be an important event because the real authority on the subject are not the case analyses or the group creative activity but the real entrepreneurs story - their journey, their blood sweat and tears as they built up their enterprises.
The class aptly called it the Entrepreneur's Night. (so they made sure that we started at 6:30) And we were honored to have as our guest last night: Mr. Peter Paul Cauton, an HR man, a blogger,; Ms. Caroline Cua (fresh graduate with her preservative less calamansi - dont ask me how she does it, it is probably a trade secret) who supports this professor on the importance of business planning (so guys are you beginning to have your business concept and model, objectives); Mr Chris Angeles and his advocacy for a shorter work week (4 hours as per Tim Ferris - my daughters told me earlier about this about a year ago) and Mr. Dennis (Dencio) a divemaster, serial entrepreneur, mountaineer, and tourism guy from Dive Planet.
Peter Paul posted this event at his blog:
Juan Great Leap. (Thanks for the blog post sir)
Most of them mentioned what has been mentioned in the class:
1. Whole brain Hermann 4 brain thinking - from Dennis
2. Business models (from Dennis and Peter)
3. Business planning by Caroline
4. Opportunities and find out what sucks in the business or in the market (Peter Paul)
5. Writing your personal strategic plan (the learning agreement)
6. The importance of personal mastery (especially Caroline) everybody
7. Opportunities within your business (as laundry, hardware, real estate) from Dennis
8. Opportunity scanning (from Dennis) PESTEL - worldwide outlook on tourism, the Cape Verde triangle.
9. Now (everybody says that the time to start being an entrepreneur is not later when you are old but now) Listen to the cat on the rooftop. Now
The wall paper for the Night with Entrepreneurs
The tarpaulin prepared by Abet A
They had catering, cum waiters
The Class spent for the event, they had the food catered
x Ensaymada for the guests
The entrep guests waiting for their turn; Janssen, Hector and Elmer in front
The class enjoying the food prior to the entrep talk
Chris Angeles, one of the guests, with Marc T who invited them
Liza, Kris, Jojo converse with the guests
The guests: Dencio, the fiance of Chris and Peter Paul
Mr Dencio Catienza, from UP evolved from a mountaineer, diver and entrepreneur
The Cape Verde Triangle with 3000 species to be seen, the greatest dive spot in the world
The youngest of them all, fresh from AdeMU, Caroline Cua, talks about her wonderful preservative - less calamansi
The class, mesmerized by the Entrepreneurs' talk and experiences
Mr Chris Angeles and his wristbands
He is not selling locally; only to USA
Chris expounds on the 4 hour work week by Tim Ferris
A sample of Chris product, I took one
Peter Paul Cauton, from AdeMU HR man, and a blogger/entrepreneur
He talked about lean start ups, traction, VCs beneflex
Tokens: jacket, ensamymada and AGSB certificate for Dencio
Recognition for sweet young Caroline
Chris spent more than 4 hours this week; he spent 3 hours for this talk
Words of wisdom from Prof Jorge after the Entrep talk
