Entrepreneurship: Forwarding a Nation

By Virgil B. Vallecera

The keys were hard against his fingers. His eyes were heavy and his sight blurred like reflections on water. Perhaps, the six-gram coffee intake wasn't as powerful as his impending slumber. The lakes of his brain drained into nothingness. The hollows of his stomach passed the curfew of the night.

What only kept him going was the reality waiting in front of him: A bright future emblemed by the towering paperwork of his balut business.

Indeed, the efficient entrepreneur is usually restless and out-of-the-box, especially when business is at its infancy or at its peak.

He is also resourceful and willing to break through the hard crust of customs and traditions. He exercises constant creativity in manufacturing better but reasonably priced goods in the face of growing competition in the nation.

It is but a fact that one of the key tasks of competition is the fostering of an entrepreneurial spirit—a spirit geared up with energy, vision, and dedication that meets the challenges in forwarding the nation’s business and industry.

Since in the process, a nation cannot forward without entrepreneurs who are willing to explore better ways of doing business and think outside of the box—like promoting the native balut.