So you want to do a web startup? Here are some resources & guide to the Philippine Web Startup,

To sum everything up, I will help foster the Filipino startup culture with two simple goals –

To promote web startup thru collaboration, events & communities.

To help the Young Filipino Entrepreneurial minds get more visibility on web. [...]

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What’s your favorite Content Management System (CMS) and why? These days, much of the world of open source has turned toward using CMS because it’s easy to use like novice web users can create a website almost like expert webmasters, Low startup costs give a competitive advantage when designs change & content stays the same.

A content management system (CMS) is a type of web-based software that plugs into your website in such a way that updating content becomes much easier than without it. [...]

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Want to be inspired? Inspiration is the main driver of change & Motivation is the activation or energization of goal-orientated behavior.

Watch this 11 Great Inspiration & Motivational tech videos about remarkable & success stories of people in field of web & technology. Including Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Jason Fried (37signals), Gary Vaynerchuk, Seth Godin, Jimmy Wales, Scott Belsky of Behance, Guy Kawasaki, Larry Page Co-Founder of Google & more.

If you want to be inspired? Watch it now! share it with your friends & fellow webgeeks!
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Search Engine Optimization is not only about skills. There are SEO tools all over the web that will help you optimize & monitor your websites and truly conquer your competition in the major search engines. These are the some of tools I personally recommend to use to optimize your sites and get the results necessary for my SEO Task.  For those of you who are new to SEO, you’ll find this lists of SEO Tools for Firefox you need to understand and begin implementing SEO strategies that will help improve your search engine rankings and drive better-targeted visitors to your site. [...]

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As the World Wide Web evolves, the role of the web users will evolve with it. WebGeek Philippines put together a list of the 16 Most Influential People on the Web .

“As we go forward, I hope we’re going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.“ – Sergey Brin

“I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.” – Steve Jobs [...]

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The Web Startup Success Guide by Bob Walsh – is your one-stop shop for all of the answers you need today to build a successful web startup in these challenging economic times. It covers everything from making the strategic platform decisions as to what kind of software to build, to understanding and winning the Angel and VC funding game, to the modern tools, apps and services that can cut months off development and marketing cycles, to how startups today are using Social Networks like Twitter and Facebook to create real excitement and connect to real customers. [...]

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Jack Dorsey is an American software architect and businessperson best known as the creator of Twitter. Throughout this work Jack witnessed thousands of workers in the field constantly updating where they were and what they were doing; Twitter is a constrained simplification designed for general usage and extended by the millions of people who make it their own every day.

Most of us have heard or have used Twitter and it has certainly been part of our social lives.

But how did it get started? Here is Jack Dorsey talking about his creation Twitter. In the video below he talks The 3 Keys to Twitter’s Success [...]

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He’s my list of Portable Apps for Web Developers. Now you can carry your favorite web development programs along with all settings without leaving any personal data behind.

Notepad++ Portable – text editor packaged as a portable app so you can do your development on the go. It has all the same great features of Notepad++ including support for multiple languages and an extensive plugin system, but there’s nothing to install.

XAMPP – is an integrated server package of Apache, mySQL, PHP and Perl (the AMPP in XAMPP) that all run from a removable drive. Everything is pre-configured and ready to go just by unzipping or installing it.

HeidiSQL Portable – previously known as MySQL-Front, is a free and open source client for MySQL (or MySQL Frontend) [...]

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Boagworld – A podcast for those who design, develop and run websites. Paul Boag’s Podcast (co-hosted with Marcus Lillington) started since August 2005.

Adobe Creative Suite Podcast – features tips and tutorials mainly about Photoshop, Indesign and other Adobe CS software. It is hosted by Terry White. This is a 2 years old podcast that started in 2006 and still active till now.

SitePoint Podcast – The Hosts are Brad Williams, Patrick O’Keefe, Stephan Segraves, and Kevin Yank. The SP Podcast is about The Web industry. This is an outstanding show with different point of views. 5 episodes till now but the 6th is in its way soon!

Freelance Radio – Whether you want to learn while you work out or to make that commute useful, Freelance Radio is the place to hear all the tips, tricks and news of freelancing. [...]

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The Philippine Web: As a WebGeek? or as a Web User socializing with people that share the same interests can only be good for you.

We usually visit or join communities or groups to get ideas or discuss ideas with other people.

This is the list of Web Related Communities, Groups, Organizations & Conferences in the Philippines for Web Designers, Web Users, Web Developers, Bloggers, Internet Marketers & Enthusiasts

Hope that list is good for you.
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O’Reilly Webcast: Get started with a detailed guide to three key lean startup techniques: continuous deployment, rapid split-testing, and root cause analysis.

In this video, Eric Ries, author of the blog StartupLessonsLearned, covers the theory of how lean startups work, implementation, and case studies. Participants will come away with a specific plan of action for how to apply these techniques to their product, company, or startup.

Watch this video below: How to Lean & Build a Startup [...]

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