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An Incubatee, Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Rights

  "Surrender does not give you a way out. Instead it will lead you to a dead end. When that day arrives, even though you change your mind and do what is right, it may be too late."  - Mr. Pom, The Gifted Graduation On our next lecture series, we have tackled 2 different topics. First is an Overview of Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Rights which is the lecture speaker is an OIC Director of IPTBM and faculty member of Office Administration in CBM, Dr. Gumaliela A. Dumancas. Dr. Dumancas talks about the legal basis of Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Rights that governed Intellectual Property Code (R.A. 8293) and governed by Republic Act 10055 (Phil. Techno Transfer Act 2009), Dr. Dumancas said that Intellectual Property is a creations of the mind. She also mentioned about the protection of intellectual property, important of intellectual property in value, monetize, transfer, exclude others, regulate, and take ownership. By registering of protect...

TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS INCUBATION

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  "Believe in your potential, look positively toward the future and stay hopeful."  - The Gifted Graduation Same as my last blog, we have a lecture series regarding on StartUp and Business related topics. As for the lecture series no. 2, we have two (2) Guest Speaker that will also tackling the two topics about the Technology Business Incubation. Mr. Kit Laurence Nacua is the first lecturer, he is an experienced incubatee and one of the co-founder of Ehatid - a grocery delivery platform based in Cagayan de Oro City. He also share with us on how his startup journey is now powering SM City (Cagayan de Oro) Mobile Application.  Mr. Kit has so much to tell, he inspire us with his journey. He even tell us how his journey go through ups and downs but despite of those, they didn't stop and just keep going.  He has so much to share during his lecture but due to time limit he had to cut it short so that he can accommodate questions from the viewers. Mr. Kit and his sister Ms....

PHRONTISTERY: THE STARTUP ECOSYSTEM IN THE PHILIPPINES

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"No matter who you are, if you want to change the world, YOU CAN, but we need to work and fight together. Trust me we will succeed together." - Pang, The Gifted As we move forward for the next step, we happened to have lecture series for the month of November regarding about the startups on business. Lecture Series No.1 was about: The Startup Ecosystem in the Philippines and Why Do You Need to Start Now. The guest speaker was Mr. Constantino Cj BrasileƱo, Jr., a graduate of BSBA major in Entrepreneurial Marketing at Mindanao State University-IIT, Cum Laude. He is a Startup evangelist with a background in Business Development and Entrepreneurship, he has multiple experience in academe and community engagement and actively takes part at the Philippine Start Up Ecosystem as a community builder. He was also a Startup founder for a Startup called KNAPP, an online delivery platform catered towards multi-cooks, carenderias and habal habal driver. Aim to building their brands and a...

PHRONTISTERY: A STEP TO TAKE

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"The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path with take on greater meaning." - Oprah Winfrey   Phrontistery, a place for thinking or study. It may seem familiar for some yet some may not able to experienced it. My team have decided to proposed it as we look for the alternative ways to learn the students comfortably. On my last blog, my team decided to create a service rates and membership cards for our customers at a reasonable price. As for this blog, we have decided to create and sort out the things that needs to be consider on running the Phrontistery.   We want to satisfy our customers by providing them a comfortable study spaces, stable internet access, available gadgets for rental, rental of book that they want to take home for day/s, room for group meeting or study and cubicle with power outlet for individuals wherein they can easily connect their low battery dev...

A CHOICE TO MAKE

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  Wise choice will make you better but right decision can give you success. In business, reality may seem unpredictable but the strengths and weaknesses are visible. The first week is filled with discussion in developing our product for the long run. My team goal is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of our business/product. In able to identify it, we have to test some things and interview our specific target market which is students above 18 years old for the couple of of days. During the discussion through video call, we have identified the strengths and weaknesses of our business/product, for the strengths; it can help the students who badly need help or suffer from anything related to school/online class, might be the way for us Philippines to enter the smartest countries in the world, can help the students focus their mind and strengthen their heart, and most importantly help them achieved their goals & dreams by providing their needs with the best that we can d...

A TICKET TO YOUR DESTINATION

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  Planning a business was never been easy. Don't know what might happen tomorrow but one thing is for sure, risking your today will be your tomorrow's worthwhile.      This past weeks, we have been discussing what should be our goal and next step to take. When this pandemic started, we suffer different kinds of problems in our daily lives, in this effect we are struggling everyday to cope up with the new normal. Many problems encountered during classes such as signal weaknesses, no internet, no money to buy gadgets, and noisy destructive environment. Considering the outcomes of my team had accumulated within the past week surveys about distinguishing the issues, we have decided to proceed our proposed solution that can help our fellow students overcome the challenges and problems of their studies.     My team goal is to test and check the effectiveness of our services offered, we asked some random target market which is the students to validate our pro...

A JOURNEY TO A BETTER TOMORROW

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  As I start this journey, let me be an inspiration to everyone who thinks they cannot do the same. Live your dream.  “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -   Walt Disney We formed our team and decided to know each other first. I make used of my first and second week through planning with my team for the business proposal and who might be our target market. The questions we made are intended for students to address their problems and difficulties they have been during the start of class. We choose to interview the eight (8) students for two weeks, they live in different places and studied different courses yet their problem is totally the same. According to them, it is hard for them to catch up their lesson especially in this pandemic wherein classes are held online, lessons are hardly explained by the professors/instructors that would lead them to self-study instead. It does affect their emotional, mental, social, physical, and spiritual health ca...