The entrepreneur who starts a small business is almost always an owner-employee, performing the tasks of that business in addition to managing the business itself. A webpage creator or a software programmer who starts out his own business does the programming and, in addition, does the marketing and management of the business.

There’s an estimated 700,000 sari-sari stores throughout the Philippines. That’s roughly 1 sari-sari store for every 130 Filipinos. Along a 50-meter stretch of road in a squatter area somewhere in Malabon, there are around 45 sari-sari stores. I’m interested to know if there’s a study correlating the number of sari-sari stores with the economic condition [...]

The entire phbar community would like to express its gratitude to Joan for sharing her time and effort in giving a lecture during the 2nd Gathering of the phbar community. Joan placed No. 1 during the 2005 Bar Exams. Here’s a summary of the lecture:

All work and no play kills a lawyer, well, everyone. Maybe I don’t need to cite statistics to prove that work-related stress and pressure are the usual culprits in illness/sickness (and, unfortunately, death) among lawyers. True, so many of us have learned to cope and deal with stress, but that’s not a guarantee that stress [...]