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Meet a Hero is Meet Manila’s initiative fueling our main orbit. Our mission is to find and feature well-deserving Filipino citizens who lead for a good cause. These game-changers are self-driven by their knowledge, motivated by their passion, and are not afraid to fight for what they believe in. As a tribute to game-changers Meet Manila is committed to support their advocacies by harnessing the combined strength of the online community. After a well-thought of qualification process, Meet Manila has short-listed 15 community heroes from all walks of life. 

The slow decline of industrial manufacturing in developed nations and recent failures of financial capitalism across the globe have sent us searching for a new model of economic growth. I see the two movements of Technology Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship beginning to converge into a promising solution. An increasing number of entrepreneurs are awakening to the possibility of combining the scalable tools and methodology of Technology Entrepreneurship with the world-centric value system of Social Entrepreneurship. Together they create a new type of entrepreneurship that could become our primary source of socioeconomic value creation. What do we call this movement? I propose we call it "Transformational Entrepreneurship."*

Pinterest is a great marketing tool, but businesses should also start thinking about it as a unique way to promote corporate volunteerism.

How does Pinterest work as a tool for employee volunteer promotion?

Unlike Twitter and Facebook, images are key to Pinterest.  This means that in order to successfully promote and encourage volunteering efforts, photos must be at the forefront of the initiative.  Pinterest-interested businesses should thus encourage employees to take photos while they volunteer; use pictures in company handbooks to explain the company’s volunteering opportunities; and keep extra snapshots available so there is content in reserve to regularly update the Pinterest page.

What does a Nobel Prize winner has to say about entrepreneurship?

A summary of Dr Shechtman’s views on entrepreneurship, excerpted from:

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/ricardogeromel/2012/04/27/israeli-nobel-prize-winner-entrepreneurship-is-the-only-way-to-maintain-peace/

The only way to maintain long term peace in any country is by encouraging and teaching people to open companies. If a country doesn’t foster entrepreneurship, it will have to rely on natural resources. However, these natural resources will extinguish one day. This partially explains, as well, why Israel, not having natural resources, had to become a Start-up Nation.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574553884271802474.html

The concept of nation is not natural. In the past, human beings organized themselves in tribes before nations. Basically, many countries are united tribes. If countries don’t focus on opening startups, they will extinguish their natural resources and tribal conflicts will take place again.

Realizing this 26 years ago, I started teaching “technological entrepreneurship” to provide students the necessary tools for launching companies either upon graduation or after a few years of working in a company. I have already taught over 10,000 students. In this class, which is open to all the students at Technion, I bring 5 kinds of guest speakers:

1st: Bootstrapping entrepreneurs.Entrepreneurs who did it on their own, without external financial help. Successful people who usually started in their basement, garage or kitchen…http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/55776

2nd: Entrepreneurs that are struggling NOW. For instance, one company that did not hire the right people, another that need better marketing research…

3rd: Lawyers to teach “The different kinds of ownerships,” “What is a company?”

4th: Patent examiners to explain what is a patent, how to register it, where, when, costs involved.  

5th: A marketing professional who will teach students key tools about marketing research.”

see also

Israel Education: the next 64 years - a great interview with Technion Nobel Laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman ~http://www.timesofisrael.com/yes-israel-will-still-be-around-in-another-64-years-but-we-need-to-change-our-ways/

Rappler's Maria Ressa sits down with Filipino Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dado Banatao.

I recently have started trying to link co-working spaces, StartUps and StartUp Weekends in Manila, Cebu and Mindanao to VegasTech and StartUps in the emergent tech sectors here in Las Vegas.

https://www.facebook.com/SxVegas

Austin via Manila and Cebu.. another way to promote the brand and garner resources and friends and supporters

some details at https://www.facebook.com/reinabelle/posts/229030397206939?comment_id=833048&notif_t=like

SxVegas, a series of events taking place at SXSW Interactive 2013. The goal: promote and advertise the thriving #VegasTech community.

http://youtu.be/t8IKMf19meA

For one weekend, a downtown street block typically overcome by blight and empty storefronts was transformed into a budding area of businesses, resources and classes for the community.

http://www.lvrj.com/view/downtown-event-seeks-to-conjure-environmentally-friendly-commerce-151490095.html?ref=095

Though the pop-up businesses at Build a Greener Block were temporary, Wiegand said the event created the possibility of permanent stores. He said people inquired about how to lease space along the street.

Six weeks was all it took for Build a Greener Block to happen. Wiegand pitched his idea to Green Jelly, a group of valley residents sharing ideas about environmental issues, and developed a plan with the help of a core team and volunteers.

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