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03/11/2016

Earlier this year, Joe delivered a lecture in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The lecture—which covered everything from medical school curriculum to in (family office work)—was the basis for a recent article in the periodical, Telehealth and Medicine Today. // See: http://www.telhealthandmedtoday.com/healthcare-startups-performing-a-comprehensive-appraisal-of-prospective-investors-in-digital-health/

27/10/2016

Bansea + Manila Angel Investors Network :)

Jose Camacho of our partner investor network, Bansea, joined our last investors meeting for this year to share insights and perspectives from the vantage of their Singaporean office.

20/10/2016

“ mentioned by as indicator that LX is ahead of the curve! ”

14/10/2016

"The has the potential to not merely support the world's and ( , ) but to actually the world's greatest products and services." // https://twitter.com/immapPH/status/785729031366860804

01/10/2016

You may not be nextdoor neighbors, but halfway across the world from those in the and should be sizing up the startups there, in their space and niches: Here's why: http://buff.ly/2dsIUY9

30/09/2016

It's true, your immediate are in the . But that doesn't necessarily or inherently mean that there aren't $100M USD opportunities in the Philippines. 100M people live here. The Philippines has the potential to become a in the world—as the State of California is. We've got the —coming in through and . Now it's just a matter of thinking bigger. http://buff.ly/2cxrc8q

30/09/2016

Our office is super excited to be a part of tomorrow's event! Looking forward to meeting new , AND: We're bringing Rocketbook to give away! "Send your to the !." —All of the major, popular are supported (Google Drive, Evernote, OneNote, Slack, , etc.). See you tomorrow at De La Salle University.

Event information: http://startupopen.org/
About Rocketbook: http://getrocketbook.com/

29/09/2016

Is the game in the or more ? You've gotta have money to make money, right?

We meet with a lot of founders that have pass through the office that are in the food deliver or food on-demand space. Before we even get to a white-boarding session about how this business might…

28/09/2016

“They [the customers] are the ones ultimately for the . They are the ones to decide if they are going to gems or something inside your game, and if many people play your game [but not that many people] buy anything [within your game] then you don’t have a .” — Gabby Dizon of

28/09/2016

's Kat Uytiepo recently wrote about in the , and the key to improving being applicable itself.
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We often work in our offices, busy putting in 12 hour days, developing software and tech of all kinds, only to make our way home, driving through streets that are and wrought with issues of all kinds, and you have to wonder: "Is the tech that I'm working on actually making a difference in my country?"

Read more: http://buff.ly/2dah2Ze | Have a the idea that might help solve this issue? Get in touch at [email protected].

26/09/2016

For decades—much of the lifetime of some of the founders that walk through our doors—the BPO and KPO industries here in the have worked diligently to service their partners abroad. Collateral consequences to this success is that, of course, have, over the years, developed a deep understanding for ( , ) and have developed harness a newly developed set of ( ). It's Joe's personal belief that investing his hard earned cash—and he isn't a billionaire or anything like that—into startups in the Philippines (versus, say, buying condos and nice cars as his buddies might be doing) won't necessarily lead to unicorn exits: But these small investments here and there will contribute to forwarding the Philippines from a country that merely services and supports the world's greatest products and services (OFWs, remittances, call centers, BPOs), to a country that produces the world's greatest products and services—and that the Philippines will invariably grow to become a in the world: Home to future , , and .

I hold office-hours meetups, akin to the Clinics that A_Space holds, wherein they bring in subject matter experts, and they co-work side-by-side with budding entrepreneurs. Sometimes we sign NDAs…

25/09/2016

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Lifebit is described as a social network around life tracking and life casting. An additional factor to it is that it uses gamification and other motivational aspects to motivate its users to do and…