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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 [...]

I appreciate the very big topic that building a Silicon Valley-like hub in the Philippines is. Right now, I’d just like to see what’s out there and what’s been said. In academe, an ever-more-brief review of related literature.
In a 2006 article by Paul Graham, the two key elements in reproducing Silicon Valley are:

rich people
nerds

Will from [...]

Out of the many available link-building techniques, it seems that the most prominent tactic used by websites targeted to Filipinos is holding a CONTEST. You give away a few thousand pesos worth of cash or items (sponsored, ideally) and get links back to your page. Linkbaiting this way can generate a few hundred editorial links [...]

There are so few web startups (that we know of). We, ourselves, find it hard to just focus on developing our web app since we also take on development work for select clients — we are, after all, self-funded. I’m sure there are more Filipino web developers or business-minded fellows who have web app ideas [...]