PESO :: Philippine Emerging Start-ups Open

India gets its act together

After years of organic growth, India is taking a more organized approach to its technopreneurship by setting up a large multi-disciplinary group to study its national innovation system.

The Technopreneurship Tsunami

Over 72 business plan summaries were submitted to PESO for the first round of judging and we couldn't be happier with the response. There were a lot of teams with PhDs or multiple PhDs as members, and a lot of business people who had impressive backgrounds.

Stay tuned to see which teams ran the gauntlet and made it! :)

Cramming to meet the PESO biz summary deadline

According to PESO CEO, Dickie Gonzalez:

"As of 6 pm tonight, 67 teams had registered online, and 32 had submitted entries. I am hopeful that a large % of the rest will catch up with the deadline."

Get cracking on those plans people! We're so excited about the entries we're going to get! :)

Good luck to everybody!

Advice from Legends

While I was doing some late-night reading, I came across two superb resources.

The first is the "Top 10 Enduring Elements of High-Tech Entrepreneurship" by Tom Byers (Stanford Tech Ventures Program). It's a tight, focused overview of the basics of technopreneurhip.

The second is Bnoopy, a technopreneurship blog by Joe Kraus, founder of Excite.com. Joe talks about his experience and working with luminaries like Vinod Khosla and Geoff Yang. He even met Bill Gates (while in the men's room). He says it's a great time to be an entrepreneur.

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Maoi Arroyo | PESO Philippines

12 teams and counting

Things are heating up as 12 teams have already registered and business summaries are rolling in! Everyone in the PESO team, on both sides of the planet, is excited to see what kind of innovations participants will come up with.

Need a key team member or a mentor? Check out the PESO forums, where you can connect, create and catalyze with perfect ease.

Confused about the requirements, there's a wealth of information at the PESO website.

Best of luck to all the teams!

PESO forums online!

12 days before the business summary deadline and still missing a key member of your team? Want to have some mentors take a look at your business summary?

Don't worry, the PESO forums are finally online!

Aside from helping out with the competition, this is also a place to chat and make new friends. Good luck to all the participants!