For all negosyante out there who needs a business plan for your new venture, here is a free business plan writing reported by techcrunch. Writing a business plan is no easy task, it can be painstaking. If you’ve ever written one, you’re probably familiar with the many websites that offer those static business plan and projections templates and galleries. They can be a great point of reference, but oftentimes they’re just that. Cynthia McCahon founded Enloop because she wanted to build a better resource for entrepreneurs gritting their teeth over their business plans, and because she’d watched many friends and colleagues sink time and money into business ideas that just weren’t going anywhere.

Hoping to take a bit of the emotion out of an emotional process, Enloop was founded as a way for entrepreneurs to create business plans from scratch, guide them through the business plan process, and offer a system that provides thorough and intelligent risk analysis to give founders a sense of whether or not they’re off on the right track. Check this out, every negosyante should have a business plan before starting a venture.

This is a new twist to kids playground found in every malls in the Philippines. What would Disneyland be like if children could work in the mines with the Seven Dwarves, engineer the Disneyland Railroad, or sweep out Sleeping Beauty’s Castle? If they got paid and could deposit their earnings in Uncle Scrooge McDuck’s Bank, it would be a little like KidZania, a multinational chain of family entertainment centers, where kids try out professions that have been downsized, simplified, and made fun. At these soccer field-size franchises in malls from Tokyo to Lisbon, children play at being adults. The Morning News has more on this: Right now, in eight malls spread across three continents, thousands of children are dressed as pilots and flying digital planes from mock cockpits, anchoring news broadcasts in fully functional TV studios, or wearing helmets and extinguishing faux flames with real water cannons.

Children can play surgeon, detective, journalist, courier, radio host, and dozens more jobs. They can buy and sell goods at the KidZania supermarket, take KidZania currency that they earn to an operational bank staffed with adult tellers, and be security guards escorting KidZania currency around the park. They can assemble burgers and pizzas, which they can then eat, or give makeovers to other paying children. At the planned KidZania Santiago, Chile, minors will be able to play at being miners. One-size-fits-all costumes supersize the cute factor. The result of all this is mass-produced adorability. Great negosyo ideas for those planning to open a new kids playground in malls.

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We all know that starting a new business needs business planning and must be put in writing to guide us in our decision making of the business when it is already running. Here is a business planning online assistant that will greatly help you in formulating your new negosyo idea into reality and will help guide you as you are operating your business already. Whether you’re a student, small business owner, inventor, or running a non-profit, the resources they offer can help you grow the muscles you need to succeed. Best of all, their startup and business growth system is free. Could it get any better than that?

The site is BizGym.com it is a free business planning and pitch development application that anyone can use to grow a business. With BizGym, users can avoid common pitfalls of business development and make their sales pitches rock. For businesses seeking funding, BizGym is the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to generate an investment-grade business plan as well as 5-year financial projections. Best of all, BizGym is entirely plain-English with step-by-step Tips & Examples along the way so you don’t have to have business experience, an MBA education or fancy writing skills. All you need are great ideas and the will to succeed.

BizGym is a unique sound-bite based approach to business visioning. It’s a first of its kind knowledge management application for business that guides a user through very specific short dialogue question and answer formats to glean key language on they myriad of ideas that make up a business vision. BizGym templates all share sound-bite dialogue so as a user works any template, all others grow at the same time. It’s like a “MadLib” on steroids or a “Twitterized” version of a business plan. Most importantly, BizGym’s sound-bite management approach converts the traditional static business plan into a “living document” that makes key idea bites easily and quickly accessible from even small format devices like cell phones. Imagine evolving your business vision from anywhere, anytime. It’s a sure way simultaneously minimize risk yet expedite growth.

If you have a negosyo idea floating on your mind now visit BizGym to start your business planning right away, it’s free after all.

Back in my business school days we are trained to simulate in launching a business from a business idea to starting the business and operating it but due to funding it never came to a real or physical business. An MBA Entrepreneur Fellow program in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Business Administration has a new way.

“The Entrepreneur Fellow program offers what every entrepreneur hopes for — an opportunity to bring a business to life,” said Mohney. “As an entrepreneur from an entrepreneurial family, my being awarded this opportunity is a dream come true. The program will open doors that most business owners never will experience. It will give me the opportunity to turn my dream business into a reality.”

Each Fellow receives a $30,000 scholarship — $10,000 for each of the program’s three semesters. Satisfactory progress toward launching or growing their business idea is required to continue receiving funding.

“As an aspiring entrepreneur, this program is ideal for me,” said Parton. “The ability to work closely with experienced faculty in developing my business venture, coupled with the university’s history of cultivating and keeping strong relationships with successful local entrepreneurs, were the reasons I decided to attend UT over other top-ranked MBA programs. Being in this program will advance me on my entrepreneurial path by years—if not decades.”

The benefits of being an Entrepreneur Fellow include:
Being able to earn a degree while increasing chances of launching a successful entrepreneurial career
Having unprecedented access to experienced faculty and entrepreneur mentors, Being able to offset many of the costs associated with the MBA program, Being able to come to UT for a degree and leave with a business

“The Entrepreneur Fellow program makes an MBA degree possible for some of the country’s best and brightest young entrepreneurs,” said Amy Cathey, executive director of UT’s full-time MBA program. “Starting businesses in this region is good for our community, university, college, program and students. We hope to grow the number of MBA Fellow scholarships available so that even more students can take advantage of these opportunities in the future.”
I hope some prestigious universities here in the Philippine can catch up on this idea to help the economy in the country.

Filipino inventor’s out there. An online handbook created for independent inventors and entrepreneurs to address questions concerning the protection of intellectual property, raising capital, applying for patents, and other steps to protect and commercialize ideas is available for free from MIT.

The handbook was created by the Lemelson-MIT Program to address the independent inventor’s and aspiring entrepreneur’s most frequently asked questions regarding United States patents. Though it is base in the U.S. you can find some nuggets of information from this book since our system here in the Philippines is patterned from the State.

Donwload now it’s FREE!

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Graduation time is here again. The month of march is full of graduation ceremony events. Could you make an entire business out of tassels? Tassel Depot has, a website that sells all kinds of tassels not just for graduations. They sell over $50,000 of tassels each month on their website! This is a great negosyo idea for Philippine market.

The company, run by Roger Leavy and his wife, April, specializes in making tassels of all sizes and colors and provides them primarily to manufacturers of other products.

Greeting card companies fold cards and invitations around thin delicate tassels. Wine gift bags feature a tassel-ended rope tie. Avid readers slip a bookmark with a dangling tassel into a bestseller or to tag a favorite recipe.

As we all know, Youtube is a very popular video website on the internet and we can also make money on it too. If you are a practising professional that teach something, you can make use of Youtube to be known about your talent or ability by sharing it to everyone thru Youtube. Call it “YouTube U” The Philadelphia Inquirer in the U.S. says more and more people are turning to YouTube for demonstrations of skills they’d like to learn.

But increasingly, the video-sharing Web site is also the place to go when you want to learn something. Be it how to do the moonwalk, fix a dripping kitchen sink, perfect a smoky-eye makeup application, remove scratches from a DVD, or even fly a plane. For many looking to learn, YouTube is now how-to tube.

And for those looking to teach, the site has opened up limitless possibilities for professionals and amateurs to share their know-how.

YouTube’s fans watch more than 1 billion videos a day, up from 100 million a day when the site launched in 2005, according to spokesman Aaron Zamost. And while YouTube does not release number breakdowns for its different categories, how-to videos are second in popularity to those that are entertainment-themed, the company says.

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Here is a great idea from the the Dallas Morning News about how to handle leftover halloween candies those collected by the kids in there trick or treat.

If there’s one thing worse than running out of candy on Halloween, it’s having too much when it’s over.It’s bad for your kids’ health, their teeth and the teachers who have to calm down candy-crazed kids the next day and, possibly, a week afterward, depending on how much is in their stash.

Phillip Done, a 25-year teaching veteran, says he is thankful for parents who don’t send their kids to school with a backpack full of sugary loot. His favorite solution? The Candy Fairy.

“The Candy Fairy is similar to the Tooth Fairy,” he explains. “Instead of taking teeth, she takes Halloween candy and gives it to all the children who cannot go out trick-or-treating. Children leave out most of their candy and write a letter. The Candy Fairy visits at night and leaves a gift.”

The kids don’t mind giving up their loot as long as they still get to have some, he notes.

“And the kids love getting a gift and writing a letter. I think in a couple of years, you’ll be hearing a lot about this Candy Fairy!”

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