Focusing on a business you know best... what: memorial park? Teaching at Grad School?

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

Rizal Philippines
July 13, 2019

Could not tell which path should have I taken:  teaching (where I spent about 13 years) and stalled the businesses or even neglected some of them, or the business path.

In the mere 3 years that I am out of teaching, these were the things I was able to accomplish:

1.  Bought a memorial plan company which we have renamed to the same brand;

2.  Started a new business model  C3 a one stop shop concept:   complete with plots, interment service, funeral service, cremation and columbarium.  Have started this in Calamba  Pangasinan, and planning too in Morong and La Union.

    As a support to Number 1, we are planning multi chapel rooms Class A, a la Heritage

3. Have bought a site initially for another NL memorial park for 4 hectare, we are consolidating for another 5 hectares to make this 10 hectare.

4.  Have started expanding 11 hectare to our existing 5 hectare project....Our partners are happy.

I wanted us to be at Forbes list of at least $100 million.  We are almost there still 50% off he6

However in the 13 years of teaching, I should have touched the lives:  hearts and minds of many young executives in the two subjects I focused on:   entrepreneurship and business leadership.  I must have terrorized scores of MBA candidates at final strama by asking them pointed and difficult analytical questions.  Not quantifiable results.... But matindi long term din and effect?