Universities Represent!

May 15, 2013 By 5 Comments
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I had an absolute blast early today with 6 awesome student leaders (sorry Angeli, you don't count anymore) talk about ideas on how to propagate the startup movement in campuses. Basically, the group introduced themselves to one another, ate doughnuts, and then the awesome brainstorming happened. There is one big plan the group is concocting (to be revealed soon). The next step is to get more universities represented in the next meeting, when more concrete details, will be decided on. The next meeting will be next Thursday (May 23) at 3:00pm (venue still to be decided on). If you are an entrepreneurial student who wants to help out in spreading the startup movement in your school, do … [Read more...]

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Last Two Days for Early Bird Rates for Pitchcraft!

May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Hey people! At midnight tomorrow, May 15, the early bird rate for Pitchcraft: How To Develop a Killer Pitch for Raising Capital and Recruiting will expire. For the content it provides (great speakers, killer panel, chance for real pitches in front of institutional investors), I think this is a great deal, so you might want to grab tickets now. You can do so here.  … [Read more...]

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Juan Great Leap Calls on 5 More Student Leaders!

May 10, 2013 By 2 Comments
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I'll be meeting around 5 student leaders next Wednesday, 4pm, at the STORM conference room, at Unit 602, Centerpoint Building, along Julia Vargas. The main agenda will be: 1) How to push entrepreneurship and the startup movement in universities 2) How to help student entrepreneurs   (Map here) Our conference room seats around 10 people, so there are 5 seats still free. I wanted to open it up to interested parties. Do you want to join this conversation? If you are an incoming undergraduate student, interested in entrepreneurship, and you're the type of person who gets things done, then you might want to join us. If you are interested, please do send me an email at … [Read more...]

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May Open Coffee Is Now Brewing! Sign up now!

May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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WHAT: MAY OPEN COFFEE WHEN: 930am-12:00 noon, Saturday, May 18, 2013 WHERE: 47 East Co-working Compound (47 Esteban Abada, Loyola Heights, QC) Inviting ALL entrepreneurial-minded people: young or old, newbie or veteran to join this month's edition of OPEN COFFEE. This event has been outdoing itself every month we have it, so I'm pretty excited to see what this month's version will  offer. Don't you miss it! Sign up here now! Here's how the last one went... … [Read more...]

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What is PITCHCRAFT and why you NEED to attend it

May 2, 2013 By 10 Comments
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In my 10 years of HR work prior to becoming a full-fledged entrepreneur, I did an awful lot of presentations and gave a ton of job offers. I thought I was pretty good doing these things, so when I made my leap into entrepreneurship, I thought to myself: "Hey whatever 'selling' I would need to do for my startup I can probably do preeetty well!" Well, I was in for a rude awakening. Pitching is Everything in Entrepreneurship It turns out, selling (or pitching in startup parlance) is absolutely critical in startup development. ALL the major activities in doing a startup involved pitching: Finding Co-founders: Yep, you have to present something  very convincing to get them to say yes. I … [Read more...]

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Open Coffee Postscript

April 30, 2013 By 11 Comments
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I had another awesome time last Saturday morning at the April Edition of Open Coffee. Here are some of my thoughts and observations on now holding four of these formatted mixers. 1)  The Sharing Continues to Amaze Me My colleague AR told me that she plans to write a thesis about how the growing Filipino entrepreneurial community is debunking the notion of Filipino crab mentality. You can see this is in action in Open Coffee. In the pitches, you will see people will share business plans, ideas, and plans to people they do not know. (and unlike in "formal" pitching venues, there is no "prize" save for the learning. What's magical is that the audience reciprocates - sharing their own … [Read more...]

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30 SLOTS LEFT FOR OPEN COFFEE. GRAB EM NOW!

April 18, 2013 By 3 Comments

Typically, most of the slots for open coffee get scooped up 2-3 days prior to the event. This time, half of the slots are already filled, with a full 10 days before the event. So if you want to attend, don't walk, RUN to fill this form up. Remember, the April OPEN COFFEE event will happen at Bo's Coffee at Bonifacio High Street at 9:30 am on the 27th. See you there! … [Read more...]

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APRIL OPEN COFFEE NOW BREWING – TO BE SERVED ON THE 27th!

April 12, 2013 By 11 Comments
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WHAT: APRIL OPEN COFFEE WHEN: Saturday, April 27, 930 AM WHERE: Bo's Coffee, Bonifacio High Street HOW MUCH: Just buy a cup of coffee as a form of thanks to Bo's for hosting us For those who missed the last Open Coffee (which included this part), you just HAVE to join us for the next one! As usual, the level of generosity, idea-sharing, energy, learning and overall do-goodery are expected to be at awesome levels. For the reservations for this one, I'm going back to Googledocs, as it seems to have a lower flaker rate and we can ask for more information from you (to help us improve JGL content). Do reserve a seat NOW by clicking HERE. Limited seats. … [Read more...]

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JOIN A STARTUP! – I’ve recently updated our jobs page

March 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Updated job openings! Please do find our updated list of job openings in our startup network! You can click on the link at the menu above or just click here.  You can contact either me (at peter@juangreatleap.com) or Angeli (angeli@stormrewards.ph) for queries or to send your resume. … [Read more...]

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LAST CALL! DON’T MISS THE JGL OPEN COFFEE AT 47 EAST THIS SAT!

March 13, 2013 By 5 Comments
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It's OPEN COFFEE TIME again this March 23, 930 am at the 47 East Facility at Loyola Heights. We're inviting all startup-minded folk - veterans, startup newbies, and especially those who wish to take the leap - to drop by this awesome venue to both learn and network! For those new to this monthly gathering, the format of OPEN COFFEE is pretty unique - everyone will have a strict 2 minutes to make a pitch. A pitch could be ANYTHING - a business idea, a call for advice, a call to partner, a recruitment pitch, etc... (Well, anything EXCEPT doing a hard sell of an existing product or service) And as those who've been to past sessions can attest - these sessions are AWESOME. Do reserve your … [Read more...]

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