GreenPost, The Best Bills Collection Platform You’ve Never Heard Of
It seems like it was just yesterday when I lamented the poor online banking situation in the Philippines and then suddenly the best online bills payment solution so far finds its way to my screen. Not...
View ArticleTop Philippine Group Deal Sites by Numbers
Ever since the larger group deal sites went popular online, the hype quickly landed in our archipelago and it is safe to say that group deal sites form one of the most popular e-commerce scenes in the...
View ArticleGoRated Nears Public Launch, Adds Premium Business Profiles and Widgets
Known only by few users so far, GoRated has very much stayed out of the public radar despite an extensive period of development. Development and tweaks. Tweaks and shifts. One of the startup founder...
View ArticletBC S01E10: The MetroDealMan
In recent years e-Commerce in the Philippines has grown, not in the least thanks to the popularity and hype around group buying deal sites. Recently we ranked the Philippine group deal sites by...
View ArticlePricepanda Philippines Launches. Lazada Wins ‘Most Expensive Shop’ Price
After several months of rumors, reported first here on theBobbery, Rocket Internet’s PricePanda Philippines finally launched. The price comparison site follows Rocket’s venture in the market after the...
View ArticleWho Will Disrupt The Philippine Real Estate Classifieds Sector?
Like globalization has allowed the multinationals to overtake the whole world, the internet has not been any exception to this principle and the Goliaths now dominate most networks. Also locally...
View ArticletBC S01E11: LeanNext.co
This week’s guest on theBobberyCast is Kahlil Corazo. Kahlil, a one time corporate drone, is a lecturer at University of Asia and the Pacific Faculty and Management (UAP). Show Synopsis Kahlil Corazo...
View ArticletBC S01E12: Startups Unplugged
This week’s guest on theBobberyCast is Peter Cauton of Juan Great Leap fame. Peter, a former corporate HR guy, now turned startup advocate and enterprise kickstarter shares his story about how he took...
View ArticleInfinitely Launches e-Commerce Module
For the second time in as many months page builder Infinite.ly has announced a new feature to its website builder platform, this time in the form of an e-Commerce module. End January the local startup...
View ArticletBC S01E13: Plug and STAC
This week’s guest on theBobberyCast are Christina Laskowski (STAC-SV / Science and Technology Advisory Council – Silicon Valley), Jojo Flores (Plug and Play Center) and Roland Benzon (Chikka) who was...
View ArticleRideIn, Making Commuting More Fun in the Philippines
Co-founded by Maui Milan and Rai Escarez, RideIn is launching its pilot project, in collaboration with bus operator JAC Liner’s Solid North, today. In a further stage later this month taxi operator...
View ArticleLavandera.ph, Organizing the Jungle that Laundry Shops Are
Ever wondered where you find the best laundry shop in your neighborhood? The internet era may have brought everything closer to woman and man, like obscure food communities or brains for robots, many...
View ArticleSMART Overcharges. When #LiveMore Becomes #PayMore Highway Robbery [UPDATED]
For reasons which can easily be simplified to “Telco screwed up”, last year I switched network, albeit begrudgingly. After months of sitting through absolutely poor performance by the number #1 telco...
View ArticletBC S01E14: The PollenizerCast
This week’s guest on theBobberyCast is Isaac Souweine, General Manager, Southeast Asia at Pollenizer. Isaac was beamed in from Singapore, straight on the sofa, for this week’s show. After Isaac...
View ArticleWork Inspire, the Perfect Task Management and Invoicing Tool for Freelancers
Email, invoicing and task management are but some of tools especially freelancers have constantly open in their browser. Three different tabs or more, most of the time. What if all this could be...
View ArticleThe Spark Project, Crowdfunding Filipino Social Enterprises #Sparkitnow
Ever since Kickstarter launched several years ago, crowdfunding has been the internet’s favorite, and slowly but surely is ever more becoming the mega studio and publishers’ favorite too. While many...
View ArticlePhilippines Standout in South-East Asia for Economic Growth and Investor...
According to Standard Chartered, the Philippines are once again poised to be the standout nation in South-East Asia when it comes to both investor confidence and economic growth. The survey was held...
View ArticleGuestlist.ph Relaunches, Making Partying Easier
It is only months ago that Guestlist.ph announced its first e-RSVP scanners in collaboration with Republiq club. When times seemed awesome for the Philippine nightlife ticketing startup, soon dark...
View ArticletBC S01E15: FilJedi
This week’s guest on theBobberyCast is Ramon Pastor, Co-founder and CEO of Numlock Solutions, one of the leading mobile app development companies in the Philippines. Ramon has also been selected as one...
View ArticleSari Software Solutions, Mobile Sari-sari Store Apps
In an era ripe for and full of bobbery[1], it doesn’t happen often that we have the pleasure to see a startup with the potential to truly change how day-to-day life is lived by many. But every that so...
View ArticleMy Dentist Pal, Making Patient Management for Dentists Easier
Imagine an industry hasn’t changed over 5 years and modern technology which could improve the running of a profession hasn’t made its entry yet? Such was the experience of Marc Medina when he worked in...
View ArticleNDFY.me, Showcasing the Modern Indie OPM Scene
Original Pilipino Music, OPM, has always managed to keep a large group of hardcore fans and while detractors love to clamor that the genre is almost blue in the face, OPM is well and truly alive....
View Article20 Local Projects Announced as Ideaspace Finalists. Bonus: TechCrunch Screws Up
Philippine incubator program IdeaSpace announced the list of finalists to its competition. The Finals take place on April 5th 2013, when the list of 20 finalists will be reduced to 10 startups which...
View ArticleWhy I Am Seriously Considering Joining a Major Advertising Agency as...
Since several weeks I have been courted by the local arm of a major international advertising agency, a Top 10 Digital Agency in the country, in order to join the agency as Entrepreneur in Residence....
View ArticleRockItDub, Creative Indie Distribution Platform for Facebook Loving Indie...
In this era where musicians have become the content creators who can now decide how to distribute their art, rather than being at the whims of labels, distribution and especially sales of records still...
View ArticletBC S01E16: World Startup Report
Bowei Gai, of CardMunch and the World Startup Report, joins on theBobberyCast almost immediately after landing in the Philippines after a three day long journey from Brazil to Manila. His travel...
View ArticlePoliti-ko, Your Electoral Guide to Simpleton Season
Thanks to the behavior of several candidates at times, it seems like it is simpleton season, AKA as electoral season again. In a society often brandished defined by the behavior of celebrities, the...
View ArticleGalleon launches private Beta affiliate program
Galleon.ph, the online store which offers products which aren’t found on the local market and was covered by us when launched mid 2012, is moving to another stage and preparing the public launch of an...
View ArticleLaunchgarage Announces Second Batch Dates, Opens for Applications
Launchgarage, the startup accelerator organised by Proudcloud and Kickstart Ventures, has announced the dates for the second batch. Launchgarage investees, AKA Garageheads, receive $30,000 seed funding...
View ArticleMultiply to Shut Down on May 31, 2013
Multiply just announced that the site, which has recently undergone a major pivot from free blogging and photo upload platform to e-Commerce platform, will shut down completely by May 31, 2013. The...
View ArticleLivingSocial User Database Hacked – 50 Million Accounts Affected
AllthingsD’s Kara Swisher reports that LivingSocial has become the victim of a database hack, and its whole customer database with more than 50 million user accounts may have been accessed....
View ArticletBC S02E02: Starting Up Music
On this week’s show, the second Monday evening episode, theBobberyCast host Mony Romana and David Overton as we talk music startups and how the music labels may be ready, or not, for the continued...
View ArticleKickstart Announces Partnership with SV Incubator Plug and Play Tech Center
Philippine fund Kickstart Ventures today announced a major partnership with Silicon Valley based incubator Plug and Play Tech Center. Saeed Amidi, CEO and Co-founder of Plug and Play Tech Center, came...
View ArticletBC S02E03: Successful e-Commerce
This week’s guest on theBobberyCast is Frédéric Levy, one of the most successful startup entrepreneurs in the Philippine landscape. As both Co-founder of Netbooster and CashCashPinoy, Frédéric has many...
View ArticleYour Accelerator Ended and You Ran Out of Cash
I’m the program director for a Manila based startup accelerator program called Launchgarage which is jointly run by Proudcloud and Kickstart Ventures. Most accelerator programs have varying durations...
View ArticlePhilippine Based Marketing Expert Ires Jimmy ‘Jimbo’ Wales with Reality Check
On what could merely have been a slow news day, Wikipedia Honcho Jimmy Wales in typical blunt style dropped a bomb into the Wikipedia talk channels, singling out Philippine-based marketing expert Tony...
View ArticlePollenizer & Kickstart are Looking for Philippine Entrepreneurs to Build New...
Philippine venture fund Kickstart Ventures and Pollenizer, who recently announced a partnership at e27′s Echelon conference in Singapore, launch a public call for experienced entrepreneurs in the...
View ArticleLifebit, a Personal Diary with Potential to Disrupt Path – and Interest Major...
After months of online teasers, and waiting for that elusive app which can make it to everyone’s home screen – replacing possibly Path, Lifebit finally hit the App Store today. Credits due where due, I...
View Articlere:publica13 : Geraldine de Bastion
Jay Fajardo visited re:publica13 this year, and interviewed Geraldine de Bastion, one of the conference co-organizers for theBobbery. re:publica is the largest European conference on startups, social...
View ArticlePinoy Auto Trader, The Start, The Growth and The Acquisition by Sulit: The...
The following post is a guest contribution by Christopher ‘Frankie’ Franks, one of the co-founders of Pinoy Auto Trader. We asked the Pinoy Auto Trader team to share their story when we first heard of...
View ArticleAmplify.ph, Showcasing Filipino Music with Free Streaming and Downloads
In the last year the Philippine startup scene has seen an increase in new music platforms, offering the users to stream and download music often for free. Amplify.ph is another newly launched player in...
View ArticleSpeeding Up News Reading with Readborg and TextTeaser
Readborg, founded by Jolo Balbin, is a news reader with a twist. Thanks to Jolo’s TextTeaser algorithm which he built for his MS Thesis, the app creates teasers of news articles, making reading and...
View ArticleUPDATED: Domain Broker Redirects Philippine Cybersquatted URLs to Adult Video...
UPDATE: Domain broker Dwight Callahan posted in Startup PH that he owns the domains and redirected them to said adult video site. Screengrab posted below. We have also reached out to Dwight Callahan to...
View ArticleArea 55 – How ‘Campus Style’ Startup Collaboration Starts and Becomes...
I started to write an article about ManilaAngels, the people behind it, the group’s intention but mid-way I thought: Hold on, it wasn’t only the alcohol beverages served at a very popular Startup...
View ArticleStill Using a VPN for Netflix and Hulu+? Blink Brings Unlimited TV and Movie...
Especially in the more tech savvy scene many internet surfers make use of VPNs to get access to services such as Spotify, Hulu and Netflix or the always awesome BBC iPlayer. Thanks to the advent of...
View ArticleConvoflow, a Social Billboard for Parties and Events, Relaunches Pivoted Alpha
Started as a side project by Jay Fajardo, CEO of Proudcloud and theBobberyCast co-host, Convoflow launched its first alpha release some days ago. Convoflow is a social billboard for parties and events,...
View ArticlePayment and Billing Service Qwikwire Qualifies for World Startup Cup Finals
Filipino startup Qwikwire, a payment and remittance service geared to people without bank account, qualified for the World Startup Cup Finals on March 5th and 6th, 2014 in Armenia. The startup, founded...
View ArticleSulit to Close Pinoy Auto Trader on Friday, February 7, 2014
Recently celebrated as one of the first success stories of the new Philippine startup scene and told in an article by Co-Founder Christopher ‘Frankie’ Franks exclusively for theBobbery, Philippine...
View ArticleSF and PH Based Job Seeker and Matching Platform Bright Acquired by Linkedin...
Bright.com and Linkedin today announced that the latter acquired the startup led by Eduardo Vivas. Bright which has offices in San Francisco and Manila, and harbours some of the talents previously...
View ArticleBagosphere Announces Official Kiva Field Partner Status
Training program and Kickstart-backed startup Bagosphere yesterday announced that the company co-founded by Zhihan Lee, Ellwyn Tan and Ivan Lau, has achieved official Kiva Field Partner status. The...
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