Here is another business idea I found in the internet. A live auction site where users pick up paddles, listen to auctioneers cry out and find out immediately if they have won. The site was owned by Donald Karr, a 73 year old retired antique and jewelry dealer which recently launched his 24-hour a day, old-fashioned, live internet auction called BlackwellsLiveAuction.com.
So this shows that the internet is for everyone no matter what age group you belong. This contast to the usual young and energetic founders of successful websites like facebook and myspace and maybe there is a stereo type that the internet or building a business in the internet is only for the younger generation.
Yeah, it’s true that many young people and even teenagers have built a legitimate successful businesses in the internet. But there are still many opportunities waiting for older folks. It’s only the interest that matters.
Locally, toddy is commonly called “tuba”. It is usually bottled and made into coconut wine, mixed with cinnamon bark to prevent fermentation which turns it into vinegar. Palm toddy is another kind of sap but not from coconut tree, it is from palm trees. Below are some technologies and procedures to convert the coconut sap into other value added products aside from wine.
Have you heard about Mr. Seeds? this is business of Mr. Allain Rubin, a PC game developer and a 3D artist. He pioneered the online selling of plant seeds in the internet the Philippines. I guess he is the first one in this country selling seeds online or there are others who already done this unique business but he is the one I read in the magazine first, the Entrepreneur Magazine. In his business you can order vegetable seeds online or other kinds of herb seeds and he will deliver it to you by courier.
According to the magazine I read, his best sellinfg herbs are basil, rosemary, marjoran, lemon and mint. On the other hand, his popular fruit seeds are melon (possibly cantaloupe) and watermelon. Now you have another business idea. But even the greatest idea in the world and without a good promotion, will not be successful so again to make to known to others you have to advertise your products. So did Mr. Rubin by advertising on online shopping sites and forums. He said he goes to Entrepreneur Magazine forum and Pinoy Exhange as well as post advertising on Sulit.Com and Buy and Sell Philippines. So if you are interested you can visit his site where maybe there are seeds online catalog you can find ( http://www.geocities.com/mister_seeds/ ).
As I was browsing Youtube, I came across the video of a 13 year old kid who was already an entrepreneur and a silicon valley CEO. I wish I have a kid like that. At first I didn’t know what he is talking about on the video ( with an Indian accent) but when I visited his website I understood now that he is selling and promoting a Chemistry Card Game. All I can say to this kid is “You’re So Cool!” Just watch his video after the jump……
Bioorganic Fertilizer (BOF) From Coir Dust And Animal Manures
Bioorganic Fertilizer (BOF) is a processed inoculated compost from any organic material that has undergone rapid decomposition by the introduction of homogeneous microbial inoculants. This is different from fresh organic fertilizer where natural decay process is brought about by the action of heterogeneous microbes present in the organic matter. Compared with the traditional composting method, microbial inoculation hastens the decomposition from three months to just 3-4 weeks.
Inoculants are commercially available in selected areas in the country but could be easily accessed. Trichoderma harzianum , a single celled fungus hastens the decomposition of organic materials especially those high in lignin and cellulose like rice straw, coir dust, bagasse and weeds. Commercial inoculants i.e Greenmix, Mabijon composter are enriched with other beneficial microbes like the nitrogen fixing bacteria, Azotobacter.
Can I make organic fertilizer? To produce quality organic fertilizer, plant residues like coir dust, bagasse, mudpress, rice straw etc. must be mixed with animal residues. Leguminous plants could be part of the substrate to substitute part of the manure.
September 15th, 2008 
Lito 
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Locally, toddy is commonly called “tuba”. It is usually bottled and made into coconut wine, mixed with cinnamon bark to prevent fermentation which turns it into vinegar. Palm toddy is another kind of sap but not from coconut tree, it is from palm trees. Below are some technologies and procedures to convert the coconut sap into other value added products aside from wine.
Bioorganic Fertilizer (BOF) is a processed inoculated compost from any organic material that has undergone rapid decomposition by the introduction of homogeneous microbial inoculants. This is different from fresh organic fertilizer where natural decay process is brought about by the action of heterogeneous microbes present in the organic matter. Compared with the traditional composting method, microbial inoculation hastens the decomposition from three months to just 3-4 weeks.