How diversity helps smooth the road to startup success

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SmartBrief on Entrepreneurs
January 24, 2013
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                TODAY'S HEADLINES

BOLD VENTURES
* Designer-shoe startup cuts the cost of style by cutting out the middle men
LEADING THE PACK
* Why leaders need personal brands
FINANCE & GROWTH
* How diversity helps smooth the road to startup success
* Government program provides loans to encourage startup growth
THE WHOLE ENTREPRENEUR
* Take action to achieve your entrepreneurial dreams
* Relationships are at the heart of business success
* How to enhance your work-life balance: Breathe, then take time for yourself and your family
IDEAS FOR INNOVATORS
* 4 ways innovators can better explain their ideas
FORTUNE FROM FAILURE
* How to avoid startup-stifling mistakes
* Entrepreneurs who have recovered from failure and found startup success

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
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Why was Prof Jorge absent at MBAH entrep class last Saturday?

 Prof Jorge Entrep link to his 3rd Baguio bike ride

As a professional and as Ateneo professor, we were trained to be mission oriented and to have zeal for teaching.  Thus, we must be ready to:  be assigned wherever our teaching expertise is needed; to teach assiduously even when no one is watching, and to be the best that we can be (Magis)

However, due to peer pressure and fear of mortality, I decided I will miss my class for the annual road bike ride to Baguio City (this is the fifth, the second from Angono Rizal to Baguio)  total distance of 280 km.  The Baguio ascent is but 30+ but the hill climbs are about 3 dozens.   We prepared hard and long for these.  For me I prepared for this for 2 years because I missed last year.

I am the only senior who is joining this difficult and challenging ride.  (One of us, my junior quit at Camp 6 when he was only 6 km to the Kennon Rd view deck ) No amount of motivation, chiding, ridicule would make him try one more time to pedal (this would be his 5th ride.)

I planned to ride only Friday and go back in the evening so that I will be able to teach Saturday.  However, the other bikers threatened to hide my bike bag and my wallet so that I will not be able to commute back to Manila.  That would be more shameful. 

So much to my regret, I had to write an excuse email to Dra Dimaano and to Krishna for this slight misdemeanor, to which they said yes though.

My bike ride though is doing (which is entrepreneurship) and showing the world and others that what you planned you can do.  The steep hills and the body pains do not count.  The achievement of the task count.

You may see some of pictures of Prof Jorge road bike ride to Baguio

New Idea from DOH warning on stem cells treatment

Rizal Philippines.   January 22, 2013

New Business Idea from DOH warning on stem cells therapy.

I read from Mayo Clinic report in conjunction with DOH warning on dangers of stem cell therapy.  Despite many unknowns, many are willing to:   be guinea pigs, pay handsome money for the sake of :  l.  good and better health, 2.  young looking appearance, 3 and cure from some diseases.

China and Thailand economists and health care practitioners foresee stem cells as major dollar earner for their countries in the future.

However many do not realize the dangers from the stem cells therapy. For one, you can get cancer.

However, a group with their ingenuity, made a killing for this:

l.  They offered a paid introductory seminar;

2.  Then they will conduct a webinar which will cost million each for the MD:

     1.  Each MD is entitled to bring in 5 experimental patients;  being experimental, they can pay discounted prices say 50% off

     2  There will be bank financing;  the patient pays say 20% and the balance will be c/o a Unibank

Thus if the new patient pay let us say P500,000 each (cheap compared to $70,000 to $l00,000 being charged by a MegaHospital, even if the MD trainee pays Pl,000,000 for the training, he still makes a clean Pl,500,000 for the learning experience for the 5 experimental patients.

This is very enterprising and smart way of making money on a difficulty

However, they failed to give clear answer on who shoulders the risk.