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Friday, November 7, 2008

Well, today we had an alternative class for compsci...We attended a seminar on how to be a good and successful entrepreneur.

The title of the seminar is Saan Ka Ba: Empleyo o Negosyo?

I think, the goal of the seminar is mainly to let us students know that being an entrepreneur is not that difficult as long as you put your mind, body, and heart into it.

The speaker gave examples of very succesful entrepreneurs of our time like:

Tony Tan Caktiong

the founder and current Chairman and CEO of Philippine fast food chain JOLLIBEE

Socorro Ramos

Founder of NATIONAL BOOKSTORE

and the one and only

Henry Sy

the founder and chairman of SM Prime Holdings

These are just some of the successful entrepreneurs mentioned by the speaker. The speaker also discussed the 3 effective primary ingredients to success.

1. Interest with the business. The speaker quoted it as "gusto mo ba ginagawa mo?"
2. Knowledge about the business. Or "alam mo ba ginagawa mo?"
3. People must choose your product. Or "bibili ba ang mga tao sayo?"

According to studies, if a person will answer YES to all of these questions then that person is a good entrepreneur. The speaker also conducted a test in finding your EQ (Entrepreneurial Quotient). The test can't predict a person’s success. It just gives an idea whether a person has a head start or a handicap with which to work.

Below are the complete set of questions which you can answer, choose between YES or NO (just write your answers on a piece of paper). Don’t look at the answers located at the bottom part. GO!

1. Did your parents emigrate from another place? 2. Were you a good/top student?
3. Did you enjoy team sports or joining clubs?
4. Did you prefer to be alone as a youngster?
5. Did you start to pretend or actual small enterprises during your childhood?
6. Were you a stubborn child?
7. Were you cautious as a child?
8. Were you also daring or adventuresome?
9. Do opinions of others matter a lot to you?
10. Would changing your daily routine be an important motivation for starting your own enterprise?
11. Yes, you may really enjoy work. But are you willing to work overnight?
12. Are you willing to work "as long as it takes" with little or no sleep to finish a job?
13. When you complete a project successfully, do you immediately start another?
14. Are you willing to commit your savings to start a business?
15. Would you also be willing to borrow from others?
16. If businesses should fail, would you immediately work on starting another?
17. Or, would you immediately start looking for a job with a regular paycheck?
18. Do you believe being an entrepreneur is "risky"?
19. Do you put your long-term and short-term goals in writing?
20. Are you easily bored?
22. Are you an optimist?

We didn't finish the seminar because we have to go to class, but i learned a lot ... :)
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Here are the answers...

1. yes
2. no
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. yes
7. no
8. yes
9. no
10. yes
11. yes
12. yes
13. yes
14. yes
15. yes
16. yes
17. no
18. no
19. yes
20. yes
21. yes
22. yes

(if your score is 16-22, then your a born entrepreneur. If your score is 10 below, then you need to work really hard. But if you score is between 11-15 then your not hard to train to be an effective entrepreneur)

Labels: BA week, compsci, effective entrepreneur, entrepreneur, neo, rivera, week1

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