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Samuel Po's journey from a martial arts champion and night club manager to a successful entrepreneur is a testament that anyone can achieve success in business with determination, hard work, and a bit of luck.Po was a former two-time martial arts champion ...

Abba Napa had already achieved success in the world of footwear retail, but her passion for great food and dining experience made her move into the restaurant business.Napa first saw the opportunity to open a restaurant when a vacant space in Bonifacio ...

Kenneth Yang got his first exposure in McDonald’s when he attended training with his father, George Yang, in Hong Kong. The senior Yang went there on his own initiative without the assurance of getting the franchise from the US.Yang, who was only ...

There is a famous Chinese saying that goes: “Fu Pu Kuo San Tai,” which literally means “wealth does not pass three generations.”The first-generation patriarch works hard to build the business. The second generation inherits it and grows the family fortune while the ...

Lester Yu was only 24 years old when he resigned from his job as a local bank branch manager to pursue his dream of launching his own business startup.Yu put up his pearl shake drink business called Lush Coolers, which he quickly ...

Romy Sia had been living in the United Kingdom with his family when he decided to return to the Philippines in the early 1990s.  During that time, when his family moved back to Manila, he noticed that his son started developing food allergies.Having ...

Eusebio Tanco grew up watching his family manage their textile business. He always wanted to try to experience running the day-to-day operations of their company, but never had the chance to do it.One day, he put up his own textile company, thinking ...

Juliet Herrera was only 23 years old when her then-boyfriend, Peter Chen, invited her to partner with him to do business together.During that time, pearl milk tea drinks were not yet popular in the market, but were very big in Taiwan, where ...

Henry Soesanto is an Indonesian who has already embraced Filipino culture. Here’s the story of how he helped turn Monde Nissin into one of the biggest companies in the country today.With a market cap of P340 billion, Monde Nissin is now among ...