Business Ideas
- Cyber or e-Commerce site:
- Internet site that sells products created by microfinance entrepreneurs. Include feature profiles of the borrowers and their small businesses. This will be a non-profit organization where in most of the revenues go back to the lending programs.
- An online service that allows people to rank skills of their employees. Then, they are rated on an ebay like type of rating system.
- Online G-travel Gear: FGgear
- www.blikvangers.com Cubes
- Sticker/Decal company
- Internet T-Shirt Company
- Internet Café/bookshop at retail space in Bayview Condos, Manila
- PersonalAssistants.com
- Beadsforbooks.com
- Food or Franchised Restaurants:
- Lumpia fastfood
- Hansarap
- Old Spaghetti Factory at Bay Gardens
- Harbor Village in Cebu
- The House of Crabs
- Hotdog stand in 3rd Street Promenade
- Food stop in Sogod/Catmon
- Soup stand in Big Bear
- Real Estate Related
- Upgrading condos and properties (flipping)
- Secondary Real Estate market in the Philippines
- Build and sell pre-fab moden homes
- Develop small community of tumbleweed homes for singles
- Travel Related
- Inter-island cruise within the Philippines
- Hostel in Tahoe
- Camotes island hostel
- Philippines 2008 trip for fun
- Philippines Travel and Learn. Creative, innovative, and business minded professionals around the globe give seminars to several MFI borrowers in the Philippines in exchange for cultural immersion.
- Bring European experience to the Philippines
- G resort in Bantayan
- Creative Types of Business
- Young, hip, and sexy development magazine
- Write a screenplay about that one dream I had. It's about a future or other-worldly scenario where the idea of development is all surreal. In this alternate reality, everything that is considered exploitative and impolitically correct now becomes the future. Also, highlight the contrast between the realist and structuralist political economic views. For example, babies driving different kinds of boats in a luxury exotic resort as a an extreme paradox for child labor. Also, workers that lend their brains for neurological storage as a form of futuristic sweatshop. Another one would be unfair trade taken to the extremes...wherein trading partners can be categorized as consumers and colonies. The future scenario shows a world where there are clear lines between winners and losers. But, society of that period accepts it because it has the highest level of social mobility in human history. So, people are not indentured into a job or lifestyle that they do not want.
- Independent Digital Film Parkway Theatre
- Mary’s flowershop and fabric
- Bluetooth jewelry
- Miscellaneous Business Ideas
- FunkyFlipFlop from Cebu to Venice
- Start a D&B clone in Malate
- Scooter rental in Carmen
- Day care service for Lovelette
- Manufacturing modern and local Philippine furnitures, creating a chain
- Auto-load to cash payment service
- Fuyuka’s alpaca farm
Goals to Pursue
- Purpose is the most important thing in life. My purpose is to grow, learn, become wiser, and help others beginning with my family and then the people who are socio-economically less privileged.
- Half Dome 35
- Continue involvement in microfinance 36
- Seek spirituality, study Buddhism 37
- Improve Spanish-speaking level from intermediate to advanced 38
- Own a small condo in Malate 39
- Build house for my mom 55 - changed to 40 on August 3, 2006
- 500K 42
- Rugrats 43
- Prominent intl org or NGO 45
- Tahoe hostel or my own business 55
Done Goals
- Graduate School 36 (DONE on January 30, 2006)
- Feliz now (DONE on July 14, 2006)
- The One 42 – changed to 40 on 4/28/2005 (DONE on July 14, 2006)
- _ _ l l _ z a _ _ n t r o 40 (DONE on July 14, 2006)
Fun Aspirations
- Return to tennis lessons
- that thing on a commercial flight
- NYU film school 45
- Hike Nepal 47
- Run a half marathon 43
- Learn Mandarin