1st Ideaspace Technopreneur Bootcamp in Bohol A Success

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Techtalks.PH Tagbilaran hosted the 1st Ideaspace Technopreneur Bootcamp in Bohol help on September 29, 2014 at the JJ’s Seafood Village. The bootcamp was funded and facilitated by Ideaspace. It was participated by close to a hundred participants representing local universities and colleges, employees of tech companies in Bohol, free lancers and young professionals.

Ideaspace is a non-profit organization that runs an incubator program to support science and technology entrepreneurs. Techtalks.ph – Tagbilaran is a group of technology enthusiasts in Tagbilaran City who are passionate about startup events in Bohol.

Roy Bayonas, owner of Printbit, a local technology firm that provides printing services, talked about his journey as an entrepreneur and the lesson of never giving up.

Goldy Yancha, community development associate of Ideaspace Foundation talked about the opportunities available for startups with viable ideas. Ideaspace holds competitions among startups and provides financial as well as technical and business support to help startups succeed with their ideas.

Chino Atillano, founder of Timefree Innovations, talked about his startup journey and the lessons he learned along the way.

Dr. Rene Catan, foundeer of Arthrologic, talked about his startup process and proved that startups are not only limited to tech.

Participants of the 1st Ideaspace Technopreneur Bootcamp held at the JJ’s Seafood Village on September 29, 2014

Dave del Rosario, community development associate of Ideaspace Foundation discussed the flow of the activities in the afternoon during which there were 41 idea submissions and 30 teams were formed.

The teams worked on the presentations about their ideas and were mentored by Mr. Atillano, Dr. Catan, Joshua de la Llana, the founder of Tactiles and Aisa Mijeno, founder of SALt.

According to Dave del Rosario, “This was the most successful Ideaspace bootcamp this year so far.”