Today's Issue
- Editor's Take: A Tale of Two Davids
- SME Toolkit Road Show Update
- Events: Entrepreneur Philippine's Networking Night (Tuesday 27 May); Marketing Audit (Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 May); The Fashion Zone Bazaar (Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28 and Saturday 31 May); Micro-Finance and Micro-Lending Seminar (Wednesday 28 May); Business Plan Preparation (Wednesday 28 May); Internal Quality Audit (Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 May); ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Standard for Laboratory Competence (Thursday 29 May); Financial Plan (Thursday 29 May); Basic Ms Excel (Thursday 29 May); Intensive Business Writing (Thursday 29 May); Putting Your Business Online (Thursday 29 May); Bazaars @ Raffles Ortigas Center (Thursday 29 and Friday 30 May ); Basic Investments and Analysis of the Financial Markets (Friday 30 May); Salcedo Saturday Market (Saturday 31 May); ISO 14000 Environmental Management System (Monday 2 June); and Graphics Expo '08 (Wednesday 4 to Saturday 7 June)
- Tax Calendar
SME Toolkit Road Show Update
19th Road Show in Bulacan’s first-rate urban municipality
Bulacan’s second district, Baliuag was once a vast wilderness, today it is a first-class municipality as it played host to the recently concluded 19th SME Toolkit Road Show held in The Greenery Bulacan in on May 22. The fourth installment of a 12-series business caravan is made possible through the continuing commitment of SME.com.ph together with Planters Development Bank (PDB), International Finance Corporation (IFC) and with its two major technology partners, Globe Telecom and IBM Philippines.
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Tax Calendar
Friday 30 May- e-Filing & e-Payment of 1702Q together w/ the Summary Alphalist of W/holding Agents of Income Payments Subjected to W/holding Tax (SAWT) -L,SNL & NL Taxpayers for TQ ending March 31, 2008
Source: Bureau of Internal Revenue site
Editor's Take
Despite the opinion of three judges favoring the teen contender David Archuleta for the hotly-contested American Idol title, 25-year old rocker David Cook still prevailed by winning the hearts of the viewing public.
Cook, a native of Blue Springs, Missouri overtook Archuleta not just by mere number of votes. This year's American Idol is a classic example of a person who knows how to take 'risks'.
During the final face-off on Tuesday night, May 20, Cook's repertoire included songs that, as American Idol judge Simon Cowell remarked, did not fit his vocal range and style. Cook rendered the Mariah Carey hit 'Always be My Baby' to suit his mellow rock style, and took further risk by singing another song, 'The World I Know' that brought the rocker to a teary-eyed close.
Archuleta, on the other hand, picked a "safe" song which he felt was the way to an easy win so he sang John Lennon's evocative 'Imagine' a second time around. Though vocally superb, for the public the younger David's performance was not as emotionally mature or good enough.
In his book 'Warrior of the Light', Paulo Coelho says the warrior knows what he wants. And so should the entrepreneur. Cook's recent display clues us to the qualities essential to entrepreneurial success--unyielding in passion, willing to risk painful blows, and a warrior learns lessons that win future battles.
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