Cebu City farmers earn more as agro-entrepreneurs

Doris C. Bongcac 11/03/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Catalino Panaginip Jr., 45, had been farming for at least 14 years. Panaginip, who is from Sitio Satuhan in the mountain barangay of Sudlon II in Cebu City, said that farming had been…

Tigers roar, tigers rule

Michael L. Tan - @inquirerdotnet 02/02/2022

Entrepreneurs get rich peddling information and calendars and almanacs built around Chinese astrology, offering all kinds of predictions and advice. From a social scientist’s perspective, astrology — whatever culture it comes from — uses familiar metaphors like…

May Leuterio: The wife, mom behind a successful businessman

Dianne Zarina G. Savillo 05/09/2021

Entrepreneurs are a unique blend of hopefuls, innovators, risk-takers, and inventors. They are focused on everything they do to reach success and achieve their goals when it comes to their business.  While we see the grandeur in…

People & Ideas: From a business idea to a thriving business

Dianne Zarina G. Savillo 06/23/2020

Owning a business is more than just gaining money for some people. For them, it’s about turning their passion into a career. The only problem is that there is nothing easy about it. The best thing that…

Ray Education’s exec aims to turn students into successful entrepreneurs

Marc Cosep 08/12/2019

It never ceases to amaze us how much time people waste searching endlessly for a shortcut to entrepreneurial success and fulfillment when the only real path is staring them right in the face. Real entrepreneurs are those…

Cebu Chamber honors inspiring entrepreneurs in Grand Chamber Awards

PR 07/17/2019

The Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) culminated Cebu Business Month (CBM) 2019 in a splendid and vibrant ceremony dubbed as the Grand Chamber Awards and Fellowship Night, which marked the conclusion of the month-long celebration…

DTI-Cebu launches Kapatid Mentor ME Batch 6

Irene R. Sino Cruz 05/17/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Another group of budding entrepreneurs in Cebu will undergo a series of training under the “Kapatid Mentor Micro-Enterprise” (KMME) program of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The DTI Cebu provincial office launched on…

DTI to implement project to help women entrepreneurs

Irene R. Sino Cruz 05/02/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will implement this year the Gender Responsive Economic Action for the Transformation (GREAT) Women 2 project. Aster Caberte, regional director of DTI in Central Visayas, said GREAT Women…

Entrepreneurs urged to embrace technology

Irene R. Sino Cruz 04/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–Entrepreneurs have to adopt digitization to be able to survive disruption brought about by emerging technologies. Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) president Virgilio Espeleta cited the need for a change in the mindset…

GCash offers free fund transfer services through Bangko Sentral’s InstaPay

Irene R. Sino Cruz 03/03/2019

CEBU CITY—Even with a retail payment platform InstaPay offered by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, micro businesses belonging to the informal sector would find it difficult to transact business with suppliers requiring them to send their payment to…

Entrepreneurs urged: Go online, try e-commerce

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/20/2018

Going online is the easiest and most affordable way for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to market their products. Officials from both the public and private sectors agree on this and are urging entrepreneurs to try…

More ‘startup entrepreneurs’ eyed in Cebu

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/24/2018

Government officials are encouraging more startups in Cebu. Frederick Amores, assistant regional director of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in Visayas, said they need to see more startup companies that are able to gain…

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