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When we were starting, we were lucky to find a small office thru an ad in Buy & Sell! Office spaces are usually 100 square meters and up, which is just (whew!) way out there, when you’re bootstrapping.
Incubators
Ayala TBI and DOST both have incubators. Recently opened are Open TBI is along C.P. Garcia Ave. [...]

Uh-oh will have to rewrite this post as Ecto Mac blog editor lost it when I clicked Publish.

Hiatus again?? What is up with Marie and Pinoy Web Startup and it’s on and off postings for the past months?!
I wish I can tell you we’ve been busy with our product… and we did put some time into one baby project along with our new intern Ralph… but the start of this year was [...]

We’re back!!!! And I have a great idea (though not original, but long overdue)… that I really want to happen within the next 12 months. I’m seriously considering moving to a bigger office space in an IT building (or maybe an outfitted warehouse) that has redundant internet connection, 100% backup power supply, ample parking space, [...]

In this guest post, Allan Flores of Pinoy.FM shares his experience in managing high-traffic sites. Should you pay for dedicated hosting or use Amazon AWS or other grid server solutions for your web application? Pinoy.FM, launched in February 2008, is the fastest-growing music web application for Filipinos. When you’re in the mood for good music, [...]

Because I know not all of you will want to deal with banks and I really wish someone had told me all this before, I’ve eliminated the guesswork, so head on over to the Pigmata Media blog for how to open your business bank accounts for SEC registration and for startup operations:
Bank Accounts for Startups [...]

The pasture’s greener on the other side. Sure feels that way often with ICT.
“In a keynote address at the ministerial panel on “Digital Prosperity”, Dr Robert Atkinson said that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is supercharged capital and unlike the technological revolutions of the past, the ICT revolution’s engine will not run out of gas,” [...]

User experience and your web application — is it really part of your mission and vision? Mark Hurst of Good Experience recognizes companies that “do it right” through the 2008 Copernican Awards — i.e. who takes care of the customer?
Popular web applications have made it to the final round, including Facebook, Fresh Direct, kayak, and [...]

Sharing with you an article on BlogHer:

Where are the women-founded startups? Chris Shipley, Executive Director of DEMO, points out the painful lack of women founders who try to launch at their events. DEMO is the premiere semi-annual conference for launching tech products.
Out of the 30 web startups I have profiled since January 2008 for Pinoy [...]

You want to form your own web startup — but your friends or parents don’t understand. I don’t want to get into revenue model or framework discussions with you just yet. I just want to share with you issues I dealt with starting out — and consequences of some I still have to deal with [...]