All good startups and smart entrepreneurs normally start with their own hard earned savings.  That is the start.  What happens after depends on the financial requirements of the new company and the ability of the business to provide the cash flow needed by the company to achieve the goals of the founders. All these have to scale according to those objectives. The answer to this fund-raising question DEPENDS ON THE ULTIMATE GOALS OF THE FOUNDERS/ENTREPRENEURS. The author shares 3 cases.

Insights from the recently concluded Plug and Play at the 10th eServices Global Outsouring Conference last February 8-9, 2010.

As a noun, keel refers to a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull to provide stability. Used as a verb, it means to turn or upset so as to bring the wrong side or part uppermost.

In ascribing Bill Luz as a keel meant for me that he brought his abilities to “upset” and to turn the wrong side of the Philippines and the Filipinos into something positive and pro-active so that the “stability” we all yearn and dream for is indeed possible.