Successful entrepreneurs in Bacolod City and Negros Occidental will share their stories and talk about trends and opportunities, and on how to start a business venture at the Go Negosyo sa Bacolod forums on July 13 at the University of St. La Salle Coliseum.

The forums aim to inspire the audience. Who else can inspire them but the entrepreneurs themselves, Ramon Lopez, executive director of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship, said. The group is the organizer of the two-day Go Negosyo Caravan, which will also feature successful entrepreneurs from Manila.

Gov't agencies to hold
training on product dev't

A Seminar on Product and Process Improvement will be held on July 17 to 19, 2007 at Casa Noble in Lacson St., Bacolod City.

The three-day training will be organized by the Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Science and Technology and the Association of Negros Occidental Food Processors Inc. Experts from DOST Industrial Technology Institute in Manila will be the resource speakers.

SMEs can now locate
gov't lenders via text

The location and contact numbers of government financing agencies can now be accessed through text messaging.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday launched in Makati City the "Micro Asenso!" Text Facility that will enable small and medium-sized businessmen to locate micro-financing centers right in their areas, a press release from Malacañang said.

At the launching in Renaissance Hotel, Arroyo pushed the green button for the template message that the country's more than 60,000 small entrepreneurs can text to Globe's 2973 to get information on the P180-billion credit market available through the more than 3,000 micro-financing institutions across the country.

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