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Coconets on the BBC

A Philippine company producing "coconet" was nominated and was selected as one of the finalists for the bbc-world challenge contest. This is basically a search for the best grassroots project.

There will be a documentary about the project which will be shown on the BBC world several times between September to October. It seems that the finalists will also be featured in a special issue of Newsweek. Just being publicised is already good for business.

But it would be nice to win for our country which has been getting very bad publicity nowadays.

Please open www.theworldchallenge.co.uk and vote for the Philippines.

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Dr. Asuncion K. Raymundo
Director
Institute of Biological Sciences
University of the Philippines Los Baños
College, Laguna 4031

PESO Reality TV?

Last year, on one side of the planet, Dickie Gonzalez (PESO Phils CEO), Mark So (CEO of Businessmaker Academy) and I were brainstorming about fund-raising ideas. Mark joked that it would probably be nice to have something that was part Apprentice and part Entrepreneur, something both factual and highly entertaining.

Months later, Karlo Laforeteza (PESO US) saw this show while he was stuck in an airport. CNN has a series that in each episode features a SME that is mentored by an industry expert. For people in the US, you can watch this on Saturdays 11 am EST. For people in the Philippines, we're going to have to beg Karlo and Tina to tape it for us! :)

Now my fellow Cambridge-MIT alums in Britain tell me about the Dragon's Den, which is a lovely and apt name for pitching to a bunch of private equity investors and successful entrepreneurs.

I'm sensing a trend here, people... Maybe next year, we'll have the PESO Challenge reality show. *snicker*

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Maoi Arroyo | PESO Philippines