Entrepreneurs:

--Lucio Tan. Lucio Tan worked as a janitor in a cigarette factory. After a few promotions, he eventually resigned and started his own tobacco company. His tobacco company grew to capture a 60% share of the Philippine market. With its strong revenues, Tan was able to diversify. This famous Filipino businessman now owns several prominent Philippine companies, many of which are blue-chippers.  Among the top businessmen, Tan is arguably the most enigmatic.  Among his contemporaries, he is probably accessible and prefers to stay out of the limelight.

--George Ty. Yet another in a distinguished line of famous Filipino entrepreneurs is George Ty. Among the famous Filipino businessmen, he had perhaps the most comfortable childhood, since his family owned a large flour mill. At the age of 29, he founded Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company with several partners. Today, this famous Filipino owned bank is one of the biggest financial institutions in the Philippines.


--Bienvenido Tantoco, Sr . Rustans Department Stores and Supermarkets.

:))) XD -VIA RONQUILLO :P

assignment no.4 (PEC's assignment)

1.
-be creative,use your imagination to think of new ideas.
-control your feelings and behavior.
-be sure of your own abilities or worth
-you should think carefully about a problem before you make a decision.
-if you take responsibility for something bad that has happened,you agree that you are to blame for it.
-be optimistic always believe that things will turn out successfully or for the best.
-do not be dissapointed from past failures,just keep on trying.
-if you commit yourself to something,you promise that you will do it or support it.

2. PEC's helps us to make decision and to be creative of what are we doing..this is very useful if we use it in the proper way,and it makes me to be responsible and independent.

assignment no.2

Invention: camera

the history of camera can be traced back much further than the introduction of photography. Photographic cameras evolved from the camera obscura and continued to change through many generations of photographic technology, including daguerreotypes,  calotypes,  dryplates, film and digital cameras.

there are many camera that were created since 5th-4th Centuries B.C, I guess..
today Digital cameras differ from their analog predecessors primarily in that they do not use film, but capture and save photographs on digital memory cards or internal storage instead. Their low operating costs have relegated chemical cameras to niche markets. Digital cameras now include wireless communication capabilities (for example Wifi or Bluetooth) to transfer, print or share photos, and are commonly found on mobile phones.

Early Development:
The concept of digitizing images on scanners, and the concept of digitizing video signals, predate the concept of making still pictures by digitizing signals from an array of discrete sensor elements. At Philips Labs. in New York, Edward Stupp, Pieter Cath and Szilagyi filed for a patent on "All Solid State Radiation Imagers" on 6 September 1968 and constructed a flat-screen target for receiving and storing an optical image on a matrix composed of an array of photodiodes connected to a capacitor to form an array of two terminal devices connected in rows and columns. Their US patent was granted on 10 November 1970.Texas Instruments engineer Willis Adcock designed a filmless camera that was not digital and applied for a patent in 1972, but it is not known whether it was ever built^. The first recorded attempt at building a digital camera was in 1975 by Steven Sasson an engineer at Eastman Kodak^. It used the then-new solid-state CCD image sensor chips developed by Fairland Semiconductor in 1973. The camera weighed 8 pounds (3.6 kg), recorded black and white images to a cassette tape, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixels (10,000 pixels), and took 23 seconds to capture its first image in December 1975. The prototype camera was a technical exercise, not intended for production.


Thats's all for tonight..

source: about.com and wikipedia.com  (:

assignment no.3

Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies (PECs)
For reference, I'm posting here the ten Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies (PECs) which seems to be used in the Business Technology/Entrepreneurship programs of the Technology and Livelihood Education (T.L.E.) subject.

Achievement Cluster
I. Opportunity Seeking and Initiative
* Does things before asked or forced to by events
* Acts to extend the business into new areas, products or services
* Seizes unusual opportunities to start a new business, obtain financing, equipment, land work space or assistance

II. Risk Taking
* Deliberately calculates risks and evaluates alternatives
* Takes action to reduce risks or control outcomes
* Places self in situations involving a challenge or moderate risk

III. Demand for Efficiency and Quality
* Finds ways to do things better, faster, or cheaper
* Acts to do things that meet or exceed standards of excellence
* Develops or uses procedures to ensure work is completed on time or that work meets agreed upon standards of quality

IV. Persistence
* Takes action in the face of a significant obstacle
* Takes repeated actions or switches to an alternative strategy to meet a challenge or overcome an obstacle
* Takes personal responsibility for the performance necessary to achieve goals and objectives

V. Commitment to the Work Contract
* Makes a personal sacrifice or expends extraordinary effort to complete a job
* Pitches in with workers or in their place to get a job done
* Strives to keep customers satisfied and places long term good will over short term gain

Planning Cluster
VI. Information Seeking
* Personally seeks information from clients, suppliers or competitors
* Does personal research on how to provide a product or service
* Consults experts for business or technical advice

VII. Goal setting
* Sets goals and objectives that are personally meaningful and challenging
* Articulates clear and specific long range goals
* Sets measurable short term objectives

VIII. Systematic Planning and Monitoring
* Plans by breaking large tasks down into time-constrained sub-tasks
* Revises plans in light of feedback on performance or changing circumstances
* Keeps financial records and uses them to make business decisions

Power Cluster
IX. Persuasion and Networking
* Uses deliberate strategies to influence or persuade others
* Uses key people as agents to accomplish own objectives
* Acts to develop and maintain business contracts

X. Independence and self-confidence
* Seeks autonomy from the rules or control of others
* Sticks with own judgement in the face of opposition or early lack of success
* Expresses confidence in own ability to complete a difficult task or meet a challenge

assignment no. 1

page 6
what does it take to be an entrepreneur
james characterisitcs- independent
                                hardworking
                                creative
                                perseverance
                               adventurous
page 8
enumerate marie's characteristics that helped her become a succesful entrepreneur.

Marie- hardworking
            creative
            independent
            persistance

a.what are the similarities between the stories of james and marie?
-they are both hardworking,creative, and independent on their things that they do.

b. how did their educational training differ?
-james grew up in a poor family and build her own business while marie was attending horticulture classes and she was interested in an interior plants consultant.

c.what made marie's business somewhat risky at first? how did she feel about it?
-when she saw the demand for professional care for indoor plants,which the shop did not offer. she feel sad or confused about it.

d. what common traits did Marie and James have that helped them succeed as entrepreneurs?
-even they knew that they'll have not have a chance they keep doing it.

page 10
if you were an entrepreneur, what particular business would you be? why?

- If I were an entrepreneur, I would be in the real estate business because I want to have apartments and condominium units someday.

First Year Life

Now na feel ko na ang pagiging high school...masaya din pala pero madami na kagad ginagawa :)) and ang saya kasi new classmates.