Asteeeg! Beyond traditional careers and conventional lifestyle

Business is hard. Make no mistake about that.
You’ve heard the statistics… around 9 out of 10 businesses fail in the first 2 years. Ouch. We hear about miracle stories from entrepreneurs, published in GoNegosyo or Entrepreneur mag. What you don’t hear about are the equally intelligent and talented people who somehow had to close down [...]

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Many of us need to expand our views on entrepreneurship beyond creating a small shop or manufacturing a new product, which can be intimidating. There are many, many new alternatives to traditional office work and earning income.

Here’s a short list of careers or money-making options from the top of my head. We’ll go over some of them in more detail in future posts.

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Earlier this November the documentary “Call of the Entrepreneur” was shown in the Ateneo Professional Schools in Makati with the film makers giving a panel discussion after the screening.
The documentary tells the story of three different entrepreneurs- a Michigan farmer, a New York banker and refugee from China. Mainly the film discusses how entrepreneurs have [...]

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