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The next thing you’d want to know once your stocks are ready is how to price your merchandise. For most sari-sari and grocery stores, a 20 per cent markup is the norm. You may go Read More

So you want to go into business. And so you know next to nothing  how to go about it. You might, then, want to consider a retailing business. In many ways, retailing is the simplest Read More

Don’t count the poorest of the poor out. From among them  will emerge the smallest of the small entrepreneurs who through their enterprising and hardworking ways will find their way out of the poverty trap. Read More

At UP ISSI–SERDEF start-your-own business and other entrepreneurship training programs and forums, there are two questions most often asked. While they happen to be the questions most difficult to answer, they are at the same Read More

What makes you tick? What drives you to action? What motivates you to go-go-go? It is said that the population is divided into three in terms of their motivational needs. Many people who are motivated Read More

Business, especially for the inexperienced is fraught with risks. Neophyte entrepreneurs are advised to carefully screen their business ideas, assess the economic environment, make intricate plans and study technical, marketing and financial viability before taking Read More

For French Baker’s John Lu Koa, entrepreneurship is a second career. Entrepreneurial aspirations were put on hold as he picked up a BSBA and an MBA at the University of the Philippines, where he later Read More