Month: July 2012

Ayala Foundation Presents: JUAN GREAT LEAP! Transforming Your Idea Into Startup Success

Ayala Foundation Presents: JUAN GREAT LEAP! Transforming Your Idea Into Startup Success

Peter Cauton

WHAT: Ayala Foundation Presents: JUAN GREAT LEAP! Transforming Your Idea Into Startup Success

WHEN: August 8, 2012, 6:30 pm

WHERE: AYALA TBI,UP-AyalaLand Technohub, Commonwealth Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City

HOW MUCH: FREE!

WHERE TO REGISTER: HERE

Limited to 100 slots. Food and drinks shall be served in the venue.

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Here. We. Go!!!

As I promised a few days ago, I cancelled the last Juan Great Meet to make way for a bigger event.

The Ayala Foundation- TBI (Technology Business Incubator) is sponsoring  the next Juan Great Meet (not naming it MEET first so its more accessible to a wider audience)

The event is designed to let the participants learn and understand what exactly it takes to build a successful startup from idea to product delivery and development. We’ll be learning from four different entrepreneurs.

I’ll be hosting the event and will be delivering the keynote address (What it takes to achieve startup success).  Then we’ve invited 3 successful entrepreneurs to share with us how exactly they’ve taken their ideas and transformed them into profitable and meaningful ventures. We’ll be asking them to share real experiences and practical tips we can all use.

Here they are below:

Howard Go: Mobile Game Developer, Co-founder of Mochibits

Glenn Santos: Writer, Serial entrepreneur, Founder of Memokitchen

Dr. Denton Chua: Medical and tech entrepreneur, CEO/President of Health Cube

(I’ll be posting a more detailed account of their backgrounds soon)

Then, I’ll be facilitating a panel discussion / Q&A with our three guests. Exciting stuff!

We’ll be ending the night with networking and drinks.

Just 100 slots! Register now! (don’t flake!)

Seeya on the 8th!

The Moral Obligation of Talent

Peter Cauton

While watching the Amazing Spider-man last weekend, I was waiting for the line, “With great power, comes great responsibility.”

Instead, the movie surprised me with the way doomed Ben Parker delivered it:

If you have the ability to do some good in this world, you have a moral obligation to do so. 

It may not have been as iconic as the original line, but this quote made me pause and think.

We may not all be blessed with the proportionate strength of a spider,  but don’t we all possess a superpower, or two or even three?

  • The power to lead other people
  • The power to create amazing things on the canvass or on the computer
  • The power to write compelling literature
  • The power to imagine possibilities
  • The power to motivate others
  • The power to interpret complex data and use it to predict
  • The power to sell to other people
  • The power to explain sophisticated ideas simply
  • The power to create true fun
  • The power to empathize with and comfort others
  • The power of wisdom
  • The power of creating a great customer experience
  • The power of eloquence
  • The power to create efficient systems
  • The power of grace under pressure

I’d like to think these powers were given to us for far greater things than selling soap or being a slightly useful cog in the machine.