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Blog#14_4B

Hey guys, this will be my last blog for this course. Its all thanks to Ma'am Truza who helped and inspired us throughout the journey. To my teammates who never give up easily and continue to fight for the worse to come. This week has been a lot busier for us and struggles were heating up for the upcoming final pitching. Time is gold and keep moving forward.

Finally, Sir Bronson returned to our class and the pressure for this course is on. On his return, he shared with us the last topic for this semester. As expected, its always an interesting topic and my team learned a lot to his discussions. We got so much work to do since he gave us a new task to be done next week. We will make a 5 minutes video presentation of our pitching for the preparation of the final pitching.

Everything must be done and everything will be complied by next week. We already finished some of our weekly task such as customer validations and renewing our website for a better performance in renting.Final pitching, its the final battle and the deadliest challenge for this course. Sir Bronson already mentioned that some of the panels are real entrepreneurs. Right now, I can feel the tense for the upcoming final pitching. Speechless but still breathing.

Im still hoping that everything will be fine. We will never stop in doing our work and our dedication for this course. All I can say to my teammates is the best of luck and never stop believing in ourselves. Always do our best then God will provide the rest. To God be the glory.

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Blog#13_4B

Hey there, its my 13th blog. A lot of things happened for this week. As of now, we are still applying the changes of our product and services for some validations that we had last week. With the help of our validation, this will help us to improve our team when it comes to communicate the wants and needs of a customer and a seller. Its our duty to provide a better rental service and its quality.

Our target for this week is to finalize the website. It may take a while to work on it but glad that I made it. I already made some changes to the website regarding the information of the items inside and some of the features but its not our final output just yet. We still need to finalize the overall process of the website and how it works when the customer use our website. So far, the website worked very well as I test it.

Last Wednesday, Ma'am Jabile didn't come to our class so we postponed in presenting our updates regarding our startup. We are done in sending our brochure and presentation to her Gmail account as what she requested per group. On our last meeting for this week, we were just updating her on our startup. Well, it needs to be done ASAP so we can continue to the next phase which is to go to a heavy equipment store and to communicate with the owner. It may be hard for us to deal with them especially when it comes to business.

We will try our best to make a deal with them through our plans and its process of purchasing a rent. I hope that everything will work well. Satisfaction to our customers and sellers are the top priority of our service. This wont be done without the support and approval of our instructor. The final pitching is is fast approaching so we need to double time in working with our plans as a team.

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Blog#12_4B

Another week, another blog to make and it's my 12th time in the making. Having this weekly blog would help me to collect the datas of our past activities and can lead our team to think of a new strategy. This week has been a lot busier to us. Each group of the team followed and work hard in every tasks given. Since Ma'am Jabile took over the rule of Ma'am Shahani as our instructor, a new set of advice and a new way to teach will be encountered.

The activities that we make is filled with hard work and determimation. We updated our customer and market validations to improve our product website which is the "PayRents". We are doing great in giving validations to our desired customers and we also went to a physical store for a market validation to do an interview regarding our venture. We have succeeded in our market validation since the manager of the store agreed to work with us. And there you have it, we develop a lot with our desired venture this week.

Having this knowledge in online renting is not enough. We need to gather more informations regarding the online services, the deal of partnerships, terms and conditions. This is also a big reminder to us that one partnership is not enough in running this type of business. As much as possible, we have to find more physical stores of heavy equipments that will help our business to gain more trusts and to give quality to the sellers as well as our valued customers. The improvement of our startup is our biggest concern to make it appealing and easier in both users.

Final pitching is fast approaching so we need to double time in finalizing the preparations and the important things that we need to present in front of the panel. There is no turning back now since the team already step up in this wild journey. We are giving our best as much as possible, not just to impress the panel but also to satisfy our customer that might try our website. We hope that everything goes well by the time comes because every businessman will succeed if they put their hearts to their work. We just need to keep moving forward and success will follow.

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Blog#11_4B

Hello there, this is my 11th blog and I'm glad to know that our team really progressed after we planned to pursue this venture. Renting is not just about rent, it also includes the trust of the customers and the quality of the product. Our service is not just to post and to justify the detail of a product online but also to deliver the product on time. The customer's satisfaction and expectations is our goal for a final test of our product. Trusting in our website to the market and customers is hard, but we will try to reach them for more validations for a better service.

For this week, we succeded that the management of the heavy equipment agreed to sell their products online. Last Wednesday, I was absent because I am not feeling well but I also tried to work on the improvements of our website. I really had a hard time on improving our website. As of the other members, they told Ma'am Shahani that we were able to ask some of the management of some Heavy Equipment Rentals online at Facebook. They also showed the message to her regarding the approval of our website for rentals to give them a better advertisement for their products to be rented.

Ma'am Shahani told us that Ma'am Liezel Jabile will be our new instructor to hold our class since she wants to leave regarding her personal issues. Last Friday, we thought that there would be no class regarding the situation of Ma'am Shahani. That's why Ivan and I took the time to bought something at the mall. Luckily, we made it to the school because we are informed that Ma'am Jabile is in our class. We told her about our updates and the progress for our startup.

As for this week's result, everything is running well except for the website since we haven't tried to put their products in our website yet. Time will come that they would post it if we could show them our website. The next week's progress would be really hard for us to take actions regarding the website. I am still afraid to think if our website really works and I know that it is the most important part in running this startup. I hope that I can manage to make it right somehow. We are also hoping next week to have a proper talk to the markets who is willing to try our website. Everything will be fine as long as we, the team will help each other for the common goal.

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Blog#10_4B

Hello guys. Time really flies because I now have 10 blog posts on Tumblr. For me, a lot of good things happened since we continue to pursue our startup. But as always, "struggle is real". I'm glad that Ma'am Truza supports our team and to give us directions towards our common goal. We are still working on our progress for more improvements and validations for the customer and the market. Partnership is also a must in our business since we are talking about renting.

Since Sir Mabulay is not around for this week, Ma'am Truza is the only one that gave us some advice and keeps us on moving forward with the use of progress report per week. She always keeps everyone up to date regarding the situations for startup business. Since the team agreed to continue and to improve the venture, we did a lot of research regarding the online renting and how does it affects the renters on the over-the-counter transaction for the equipments that they want. For now, we planned that we are only focusing on one category which is the heavy equipments. If it turns out as a success and more positive feedbacks for the customers, then there is no problem in expanding our venture.

This week, as we conduct some validations for the customer and seller, we found some common answers with some of our customers that is pretty good for us. And as for the seller since we've only interviewed on, we saw a different perspective with our hypothesis that came from them. This week, we also try to take partnership in other stores so that we can make a deal regarding our business proposal. Unfortunately, it didn't turned out well from what we expected since we have to go back and visit only on weekdays. Also on Wednesday, we only encounter the representative and not the owner.

For the next week, as much as possible, we will try to reach out and talk to the owner so that we can start explaining our business proposal. Lately, we've been working on improvements for our website and we also want to make an application if possible since we are not pro in programming. I know how difficult it is to learn how to make a program for applications and websites but still giving our best shot for this course. I hope we can continue to work on our startup. As what we know, the team wont be functional if all of you are not helping each other to achieve the goal that we all want. It would be our mission to make "PayRents" (the online rental service) easier and better for those who love to rent.

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Blog #9_F2

Hey there people, welcome to my 9th blog. Happiness comes through when good things happened. That is the kind of feeling that I felt for this week, the joy that we trully deserved. Finally, our dedication of hardwork for the approval of our proposal has paid off. And finally, we set sail for a new adventure, new obstacles that we encounter, and the struggles that we will face. It would be a new beginning of our journey as a team.

On our first class, Ma'am Truza help the class by elaborating the problems and conditions for the improvement of each group's startups since Sir Mabulay is absent for the whole week. Honestly, we are out of ideas to replace our previous startup and we are completely tired and hopeless for a moment because we thought that our proposal was rejected. It was thanks to Ma'am Truza and to the Lord our God for giving us a chance to continue to work on our startup. But the condition would be fatal, we can continue to work if we will do some customer validations and if not, then pivot takes place. So for this week, we are focusing to work on our customer validation.

We will be focusing on asking them about the problem that we are going to solve, if our potential users is experiencing this kind of problem together with our seller. By doing so, it will help us for more consideration that will be put on line. For now, we've decided to take a new track regarding with our startup. We are planning to focus on one product to rent then to have a survey of what product that is in demand to rent. Our validation will be focus just around the city. We chose the Capistrano Street since many rental stores are established in that location. And we also selected some malls and parks to ask some random persons that might be our potential customer.

By taking actions for our validations on our chosen locations. Sadly, it turns out unwell. None of the customers agreed to our business and insights because they expect a high valuable things when it comes to renting, like cars and houses. So at that time, we thought of giving up because of the negative feedback that we received. But what surprised me is that Ma'am Truza gave us some enlightment and ideas to our problems. We know how hard it is but we will still pursuing our plan to continue to look for partnerships, for our possible customers, and more validations so that we can gather more ideas that might help us to work. Problems will always be there for our trials and it would be our greatest challenge to face and to fix it. Optional choices is our decision but to avoid it is an exception. Theres no turning back now. Together, we will stand strong and together, we aim for our common goal for success.

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Tech101: Blog No.9

Hello there, this is the 9th time that I post another blog. This week, we enjoyed a lot of school events due to Intramurals week. My teammates attend some of the activities for the completion of our activity card. Right now, we are still looking for the best and possible startup that will suit us due to the fact that our proposal was rejected. We are giving our best for the last time to find our own startup.

For real, it takes a lot of time to think of it because we already know the consequences if we dont do it right. The advantage of being rejected is that they have given us a hint to think if they will accept it or not. Until now, we are still repeating on our first base which is to make ideas and to create a plan. Making a decision is hard but to find an idea to decide is even harder. Honestly, we cannot decide it easily because we need to analyze and to understand if it works and will answer the questions asked based on our lecture.

Developing a startup is still not our priority because we still dont have one yet. The pressure for this is at high state compared to the other groups. I really envy that the other groups are developing their products and validations. I hope that we can work on that once we finished on creating a startup. Hopefully we can think of a new one soon.

This week, I've been working on research for our startup since we got plenty of time to look for ideas. I already checked on some videos that Engr. Bronson shared to the group on slack but I think we cant handle some of the proposed startup ideas because some of them uses an advanced technologies which it doesn't match our skills. But I wont stop on searching until I find a startup that will suit to our group. I must approve the startup first to myself before sharing it to my teammates. I hope that I can find a startup as soon as possible to propose it to Ma'am Truza next week.

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Tech101: Blog No.8

Hello everybody, this week will be my 8th time in making a blog. Bottomline: this week is a curse. It comes to the point that we thought of climbing the highest mountain to reach the clouds, but still tremble then fall.This blog is the only way to express my feelings through all the pains that our teammates had walk through. Our group has done so many sacrifices for this subject and it's not easy to move in other plans. Rejecting a startup is easy but creating a new one is hell. Its not that easy as you think but it takes hardwork, perseverance and strong ideas to create one and most of all is "time". We are running out of time for the preparations for our new startup which is the reason why our team lacks to prepare for the midterm pitching.

The startup that we present for the pitching is an online rental service. It is where anyone can buy a rent or to sell a rent as long as there is a stock that is posted on our site. This is the idea that we agree and pursue to make. After taking the examinations for the midterm week, we immediately go back to our startup which is to make a low profile of our website. Everything is fixed for the presentation, except that we still lack of supporting ideas which is the detail that we need to complete the proposal. Sadly, they are not convinced and satisfied on what we present and instead, they convince us to make a new one. Honestly, I'm sick and tired of creating a new startup. Why? Because it keeps on repeating, why won't they give us a shot to prove if it works. I understand the feedbacks that they gave but sometimes, I want to test our ideas for us to improve our services and to prove them wrong. But what can I say, I can't do anything and I will just give up and follow their league.

If they continue to reject our plans, I feel like I just don't know what to do anymore. "I feel lost and down", its like I can't move my body in my bed because of the pressure that is forcing me down. There are times that I keep on telling to myself to wake up because this is the reality, not some old fantasies that you can fix it quickly with just a snap of your finger. Honestly, my hopes for our startup is getting low, I'm just thinking to myself if we can still be able to find a better one. I hope that Ma'am Truza will help us to solve our problems because we are running out of ideas.

Last Friday, we don't have a class meeting because we are requested to join the event which is the "Elevate National Startup Roadshow". Honestly, I'm kind of dissapointed to myself and I envy the other groups because this event is intended for the persons who already has a startup plan. Moreover, I'm happy and thankful for each individual enterpreneur successors for sharing us their stories. I was cheered up a bit and found some interesting topics that they point to us. I know that life is full with ups and downs but somehow, I wish that our team would feel the bright side in the world of entrepreneurs. But, in order to do so, no matter what happens, "We Won't Give Up". If it takes much hardwork and sacrifices, we will make it. As the leader of our group, I will take the responsibility to cheer, to guide and to help the team and to find a way to create a new startup. This is our mission that we must do in order to survive. I just have to stay calm and think deep then everything will be fine. "We will bounce back like a pro, 'cause we're so resilient", I hope so.

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Tech101: Blog No.7

Hi there, this will be my 7th blog. Another week has passed and more challenges will be faced ahead. We are afraid to know that the schedule for our midterm pitching will be on Friday. As of today, we only have a small percentage of preparedness for the upcoming pitching. We haven't present a new startup yet to our instructor but we already thought of a new one.

Our teammates really worked hard and agitated to find a new startup which is the reason why we come up of a new startup. We have two startups to choose, the first startup is the yell help and the second startup is the grocery planner. Both startups has a quality for business, the difference is that the first one is a small mechanism but it is really helpful in times of emergency while the second one is an application which helps the buyer in their grocery shopping. Since we already have a new startup, we just need to have a supported information to the customers and to think of a way that will not be rejected easily. For our business model canvass, we just have to improvise it since we already knew how to make one in the past weeks.

On our first meeting, Engr. Mabulay took the time to teach us more about customer relationship in business. This is a new topic for us to learn and it is really an interesting topic that would help us to know more of our customers. It is really important to know who are your valued customers are since they are the ones that is in need of our product. Though, it takes a lot of courage to talk to it. He also show the customer data that shows all the information that we need in business and also to know the pain relievers, gain creators and key features.

Lastly, we are glad that the midterm pitching is moved to the next two weeks, thanks to Engr. Mabulay. It will give us more time to prepare and to have a supported details and validation of the customers for our startup. After his discussion, he gave us some task for the next meeting and he will be doing a lecture in exchange for the midterm schedule. Since Engr. Mabulay is not around, we took the time to finalize our ideas. By the next week, we will present our startup if possible since it is midterm week so we can make our progress.

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Tech101: Blog No.6

This is my 6th time in making a blog. Another week has passed and we still dont have our final startup yet. This week got me stressed out, sometimes I think of giving up but sometimes I stand and face my problems. News flash! Our team is still under depression and agitated to find a new startup that will not be rejected easily. Midterm pitching is fast approaching but we’re still on our first base of creating a startup but still standing and kicking until we reach our aim. I know that our team is lack of ideation and determination, but someday we will figure out our strategies as a team and use our lapses to motivate us and keep us moving.

On our first meeting, Engr. Lagura gives the class a task since Engr. Mabulay is not around. Engr. Lagura taught us some techniques and key points in improving our BMC (Business Model Canvass). We need to catch up since threre were only two groups in class that are rejected in proposal. We have a hard to hard time in creating our new startup, we also have to keep in mind that we will be making an improvised BMC even though we have to think of a new one and we agreed that our new startup would be Job Time, an application for job opportunities exclusively for the students. It is easier to be said than done, but we are the last group to submit the BMC since it is time consuming in thinking of a new startup.

On our second meeting, we have a video presentation about entrepreneurship. The video taught us on how to build and improve a startup. The saddest part is that our new startup proposal is rejected since we dont have our concrete ideas and doesnt apply to the questions asked. We will create a new startup next week and hoping that this would be the last one we will create so that we can proceed to our customer validation. We need to make this as fast as possible since the pitching is fast approaching.

No matter how hard it is, I know that we can get pass through this. God is there that would guide us. As a leader, a have a bigger responsibility to make a move and to give positivity to my members. Thanks to Engr. Lagura, she guide us through our ups and downs. For as long as we believe in ourselves that we can do it, we still have our chance to to fix it.

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Tech101: Blog No.5

               This is the fifth time that I make a blog and a lot of things happened for this week. The day that our group had been waiting for has finally come and it turns out unwell. Our first trial in creating a startup is rejected but our journey does not end here. We will continue to create a new and better startup again due to the fact that our proposal is not legible enough to improve in the community. In order to do so, we need to think of an ideation that will solve the problem and to pass Engr. Mabulay’s expectation towards us and we will follow our milestone from the beginning.

               It was announced last week that we will be making our Business Model Canvass or BMC. We are tasked that we need to bring the following materials in order to perform the said activity. Since Engr. Mabulay is absent in our class, Engr. Lagura took the time to lecture us for the new topic which is the BMC. This is a new topic to all of us and at the end of the discussion, we manage to make our own BMC. Basically, BMC is all about customer and business relationship and how does it affect our product.  

               I’m glad that Engr. Mabulay give his honest response for us to accept it wholeheartedly. Even though we already know the outcome or the result of our proposal, I admit that I was a bit down at first the moment that I saw his comment that our proposal is rejected due to the fact that our product is costly and more complicated. That’s why rejection therapy helps me a lot of ways to move on and to start all over. As Engr. Lagura said, always prepare for backup plans if our startup proposal is not convincing. Still, we will continue to present our BMC next week no matter what.

               I already know that It is really hard to think and to decide on our startup and it is a tough challenge that we must face and endure it. Due to what we are facing now, we must not lose hope and we still got time to manage things and to do our best as a group. The good thing of being rejected is that we will learn from that mistake and applying it to make better plans. All things happened to us has a specific reason, hoping that our team can generate a good and concrete ideas. Remember that life's greatest lessons are usually learned at the worst times and from the worst mistakes.

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Tech101: Blog No.4

               Hi there, I'm on my fourth blog now and I'm going to share my experience in our technopreneurship class this week. As for this week, we did not have much progress compared to last week. Now, we are sticking to one startup which is the jeepney solar charging and we are still waiting for Engineer Bronson Mabulay's approval. We are excited and afraid at the same time but we are hoping that our startup will be approved so that we can continue with what we have started. Then on Friday, we all gathered at the at the Performance Art Theater (PAT) and we all had a fun learning experience different form just classroom discussion. We are more inspired.

               On Monday i arrived late in class, but luckily there were no class. I was late because the jeepney I rode had battery issues and it took quite a long time for the battery ti finish charging. That situation made me think even more of our startup, if we can include this problem or not. Since there is no class, Ma’am Truza instructed our class representative to make an attendance list and so we stayed in our classroom until 11am. I then decided to study for my other subjects to make use of the time. This is the reason why we did not have much progress in our task this week because of the bulk of quizzes we had the entire week.

               We did a lot of activities on Friday. In the morning, we gathered at the PAT for an inspirational lecture from one of the successful entrepreneurs who managed to grow his own business. In the afternoon, we had a class lecture from Engr. Bronson Mabulay. At the PAT, we were gathered to hear the message from one of the successful entrepreneurs in Cagayan de Oro City, he also studied in USTP and took up Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and he continued to study Masters of Business Administration to learn more about business. I cannot recall his name but he inspired and motivated us to work and strive harder with our startups. He introduced his startup which he called "Streetby" and it is now a growing and improving business company. It is an application that is used for food delivery services and it has other features which is fast, safe, and easy to use. He even shared to us his story when he was still beginning with career; how all things started and how he managed to grow his business with 39 of his employees and they are hiring more and more.

               After he finished the message, many students in different colleges got a chance to ask questions about our needs and concerns in our startups. In our department, our biggest concern is the machines that we are making which are so expensive compared to other programmers who spend less. He answered the question and he said that we must be wise enough in making decisions about our expenses for the machine and to produce one at a time if it really is expensive to produce a new one. In the class lecture, Engr. Bronson Mabulay shared to us the story of two businessmen who struggled in their startups and turned into a successful business in Stanford and Silicon Valley. I was moved and encourage by all the lectures and new discoveries that I learn and I am hoping that someday we will succeed with our own startup.

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Tech101: Blog No.3

           Hello, this is my third time in making a blog on tumblr. I’m glad that I already got used to this routine every week and it really helps our group in checking the progress and viewing our past activities. Last week, so far our group decided a startup which is the parking display information. This week, we learned a lot and discovered new and interesting topics that Engr. Bronson Mabulay shared to us. We also encountered misunderstandings in our group and I will tell you why.

           This week the whole class did proposal presentation. Each group introduced their own startup and explained it to the class briefly. The guidelines for the presentation included that all groups must prepare a powerpoint presentation and the maximum time for the presentation is 3 minutes. All of the groups were ready and were prepared to present it except us due to misunderstanding in our group communication. Everyone except Ira, our programmer, agreed that our plan B which is the parking display information would be our plan for startup.

           Our plans changed and we considered the jeepney solar charging as our new startup. On our first meeting this week, I immediately prepared the powerpoint presentation in our group and Ira was the one who reported it in class since he is the one who suggested to change the plan. Since Engr. Bronson Mabulay came late due to their faculty meeting, Ma’am Truza decided that we start the reporting of proposal and sequenced the group reporters through a draw by lots. She also decided that the remaining 3 groups will present their proposal on the next meeting because Engr. Bronson Mabulay will be entering the class for a lecture by that time. Luckily, we got the second to the last slot which was so timely because we were not fully prepared that time.

           On Friday, our group was finally prepared to share the proposal. After the presentation, Ma’am Truza made some suggestions and other important things that we must consider for our startup. She then announced that all the groups should post the powerpoint presentation on slack, an application. Since I was not feeling well, the three other members of our group made the presentation more convincing because of more illustrative details so that our instructors will approve our proposed startup. If ever our startup is approved, we will then continue on gathering data from our valued customers about their needs and wants and for the improvements. What I have learned this week is that we must improve our group communication to avoid misunderstanding and possible failures.

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Tech101: Blog No.2

           Last week was a very busy and productive week for us. We learned a lot of lessons and new stuff about technopreneurship. We were also given a task and we had a hard time thinking and gathering ideas for it. Each of the members of our group contributed their ideas and at the end of the class we decided which ideas are best to startup with our task. I am still not sure whether our plans would work or not. It really is difficult to think of possible ideas and how to build a startup specially that what we want is to get materials that are less costly and is possible to be made and we are aiming for a profitable business with a big target market.

           This week was also a busy week in our technopreneurship class. Although we did not have a class last Friday, we continued sorting out our plans and started writing a draft for our blog. On our first meeting for this week, the representative of each group reported about their milestone. By making our own milestone we can be able to track our actions or event marking a significant change or stage in development. In our group which is the commuter's group, I am tasked to report since I am the leader and also the representative of our group. We are given 18 weeks to think of plans for the improvement of our business.

           We are given the whole semester to think about our objectives, strategies, and improvements in our plans and we have successfully finished making our milestone. The day before the presentation started, I made a powerpoint presentation about our milestone. Since I am quite a perfectionist, I made every slide in our presentation presentable and colorful with contents. It took me a lot of time to make it and I finished it at 1:30 am. In the morning, I arrived late in class because of traffic that was due to two PNP checkpoints. The transportation from home to school used to be just one hour but because of the traffic it became two hours.

           Finally, I arrived to school but since am the last one to present, I was able to present my report in front of the class even though I was late. Everyone got surprised and amazed because of the colorful and unique presentation I made. After my presentation, Ma'am Shahani Truza asked me about our startup so I told her that we only have 2 startups and all our plans are more on technology and I'm glad that Ira is on our group and he explained it since he is the programmer. After we shared our startup, Ma'am Shahani Truza told us to think of another startup so we can have plenty of options to choose from. Above all our main concern was the interest of our customers.

           On Friday, Engr. Bronson Mabulay was not able to come to class due to a faculty meeting. That is why our group has decided to think of another startup, unfortunately nothing comes out. So, we decided to think it over during the weekend and just watch shark tank videos so we can think of a new and possible startup. After our discussion, we started creating our blog for this week's journal. By next week, we are going to prepare ourselves for our plan B proposal.

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Tech101: Blog No.1

           Technology is a powerful and versatile transformation tool. It plays a major role in this world where technology and innovation are changing the way we live. Technopreneurship is an entrepreneurship in a technology intensive context. It is the act of turning something into a resource of high value by converting good ideas into business ventures that relies heavily on the application of human knowledge for practical purposes. But being an effective and successful technopreneur goes beyond just learning the definition of the term “technopreneurship”, thus I am taking up this subject to learn more about technopreneurship which is related to my course.

           On the first day of class, Engr. Bronson G. Mabulay gave us an insight about the life and the opportunities afforded to being an entrepreneur. He encouraged us to put up even just a small business and inspired us to become successful businessmen in the future. He even shared to us some ideas on how to start a business and how to make it grow and prosper. I have learned so much in his discussions.

           The next meeting, we were divided into four groups and were tasked to think of a business that would be of help to people and address their needs. We then divided the task among ourselves and tried to think and gather ideas. Together, John and Ivan brainstormed and discussed their ideas. Ira, on the other hand, tried to search for new ideas online while I scanned for topics in different field of possibilities to come up with ideas. After coming up with concepts, we then discussed among ourselves and went for the best ideas fit for the task.

           After gathering enough ideas, we are then going to push through with our task. The next thing that is set for our group is to predict the possible results of our concepts after we have implemented them. We will also try to improve our concepts and even introduce some changes if needed for the improvement of our business. It is also important to be updated with the new trends in technology and our team is very open to such innovations. And because gathering ideas goes beyond us discussing amongst ourselves, we are eager and we will listen to learn more from our knowledgeable professor, Engr. Mabulay.