(source: Forbes.com)
Be inspired with the man behind the success of MANG INASAL – Mr. Edgar Sia II, a 26-year-old college dropout.
“Born to second-generation Chinese- Japanese-Filipino parents, Sia grew up in Roxas City in Capiz, a small town 280 miles south of Manila. His parents ran a grocery store where Sia worked on weekends as a cashier from the age of 10. He went to the University of St. Agustin in nearby Iloilo City to study architecture but dropped out one year short of graduating. "My mind was always somewhere else," he admits.""His wandering mind got fixated on starting his own venture. In quick succession, he opened an express photo shop and a Laundromat. He then took a bank loan to set up a small budget hotel. But broader ambitions of going beyond his provincial roots got him thinking again. Along came the offer to rent a corner in an upcoming food hall. "The overhead at the time was low so it wasn't that risky," he says".-Forbes.com (read more here)
