 Social entrepreneurship for me is doing business with the heart for the people. And for me, I care more about the people we employ than the business itself. Now, Cafe Antonio started back in 2008 with a business mindset or philosophy where we will employ students who are either out of school or looking for a part-time job, specifically UP students. Now, I was keen on doing this back then because I wanted my friends, especially my friends from UP, to have other sources of income aside from their allowance. And also, one of the primary reasons why I was motivated to do this business is that so they can have a chance to start a career when they graduate. In 2008, when we were back in Groove, Los Baños, in our first branch, most of our employees were students and some of them were fresh grads also. Now, when you graduate from the university, you don't have a job immediately. So as a business owner, I have this opportunity or this capability to employ people and I will tell them you can work in the cafe first while you are looking for a job. Now, I was happy I was able to do this to start the careers of people and to give them a springboard for their future careers, whatever it is. But for me, my philosophy was when you start your career in coffee, you will build lots of opportunities in spite of what career track you would pursue. Now, the business philosophy of the cafe evolved through the years. Right now, 2017, we've been operating for eight years already and through the years, we've been going from one place to the other. 2008 to 2009, we were at Groove, Lopez Avenue. 2009 to 2011, we were at LB Square. Then 2012, we moved here in Mahas. And then until now, we're still here, now we're expanding inside the campus in the Sirca main building and in Sirca Hotel. Now, throughout those years, we've been experimenting with a lot of ways to help our community. Now, at first, we were not really intentionally wanting to make a significant impact with the Las Banyos community. But I think because I grew up here in Las Banyos and I'm a graduate of UPLB, I have this heart for the people. And then, so we started thinking of ways of how to involve the community more in the operations of the cafe. In 2009, we decided to start a community for artists. We called it Cafe Antonio Sessions. Now, as a musician also, I wanted local Las Banyos based artists to have the cafe as a platform for their performances, for their album launch. And their promotions. I want them to start and the cafe. And the cafe will help them provide a venue for their performances. Now, a lot of artists went there. Now, they are successful. And some of them have launched their respective albums already. And this isn't possible without the support of the people who believed in us. And who went to the cafe to perform. Now, that was just a phase together with the staff that I was with and my business partners. And eventually, we evolved into another model. In 2012, we decided to help local farmers have a venue for their vegetables. So, from music to agriculture. So, as the cafe grows older, we mature as people also. So, we decided to support another advocacy as well. So, because the cafe has evolved and our menu has expanded, there's an opportunity for local farmers to supply us with organic vegetables. Now, during that time, I was also involved in organic agriculture. So, I started planting some vegetables for the cafe. So, I started selling to the cafe what I can grow. And then some local farmers also supply lettuce, basil, tomato. And we felt really glad that we were able to purchase their produce. At least they have an outlet for their hard work. So, we do not buy a lot of vegetables. At least we know that we have this capability or this ability to support these local farmers. And then eventually, it's not just vegetables that we buy. And because I go on the cafe, we were able to enable other small businesses to display their products inside the cafe. So, they feel that they have their own space here inside the cafe where they can showcase their talents. And now, as the cafe matures, we can now see the effects of how cafe Antonio has been part of the Las Banyos community. And the support just keeps on growing. And we are very happy that a lot of people have considered cafe Antonio as their second home. And now that the cafe is being managed by my business partner. And she's a chef also. And she's the one trying to expand the advocacy of the cafe carrying on what we've started in the beginning. And now we expanded inside the campus. And we're trying to pass on the spirit that we had at the beginning in 2008 until now. So, the cafe, though, we understand that when you have a business, you need to profit. But when the focus of your business is really to help people and look for other ways and creative ways to reach out to people, support their businesses, support their own, their passions, then I think you could not go wrong with that because eventually the profits will follow. So, hopefully, other businesses will not be blinded by the reward of high income that they generate from their businesses. But rather, they would have a heart for serving people instead of just serving themselves. One of the challenges is that when you have people at the center of your business is how to actually profit from it. Because a lot of sacrifice needs to be done, especially in the part of the owners. Because in your desire to help people, you have to simplify a lot of things, especially personally. Now, when you focus on the development and the growth of other people, you need to learn how to take less and learn how to live with less. Knowing that the driving force behind what you're doing is the happiness of others. So, the main challenge is how to simplify your life and not fall into the temptation of how you will gain profit at a very short time. One advice that I could give is you start your business in the community where you live. Because personally, I think when you're not from here or from the community, it's hard to establish a rapport. Plus, you really don't have what do you call this? Roots or some history with the community. So, it's hard to build a rapport with people. An advantage for Cafe Antonio is we grew up here since we were elementary high school college until when we were working, when we were adults, we're still here. So, we literally grew up here. So, we know the people, we know the culture. I can't say it's easy, but it helps that you know your people. So, my advice is for entrepreneurial startups is look for a way to start a business in your community. Because most businesses, they look for a place where they can earn profit. Those places with high traffic or with the most potential for income or volume of people. But if you stay in your community and believe in them that they will support you, I think that the people will respond to you in a positive way. Just like what happened to us, even though that we're almost operating for almost a decade, even though we're not profiting that big yet, at least the business is being sustained and we haven't closed down yet even though we have lots of struggles. But we can always rely on the community to support us. So, for scaling down, I think look for ways how to help our community through your business. If there's a social entrepreneurship program, there's a significant part of the design should focus on building the values of the entrepreneur. I'm not so much in the technical side, but also that's important. But the values of the entrepreneur really dictates what will happen to the establishment. So, we can assess that immediately during a course. What the heart of the entrepreneur is. You can feel it in the student or in the person and then immediately you know what kind of business that he or she is thinking about. Now, when you focus on the values, inculcating values and ethics also in the program, I think that will help shape the entrepreneur and really it will make him or her realize that entrepreneurship is really social. So, it's not just that there's no dichotomy between entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. I think all entrepreneurship needs to be social because entrepreneurs are the most influential people on the earth because the world functions because of entrepreneurs like us. We generate jobs, we generate products and then we help build the economy. So, there is so much power at the hands of entrepreneurs. Now, imagine this kind of power will be in the hands of people who don't have values. Imagine that the world that we will be living right now. So, it's important that the values of these entrepreneurs are well established. They know what they are doing. They know the motivations behind their business and then it should be clear to them why they are doing their business in the first place. Now, if those values are twisted or skewed, then I think there will be negative consequences in the business model. So, this is what will happen. You will tend to exploit people. You will tend to exploit resources if you don't have these values. Now, if you're very sensitive about these things, then I think you will have a successful enterprise or a business. Hello, ito yung coffee bar namin. So, ito yung heart and soul ng aming cafe. So, meron kaming mga manual brewers dito for our brewed coffee and meron kaming espresso machine na nagpaproduce nang halos lahat ng aming drinks. Papakayala ko sa inyong aming staff. Si Elmer, graduation ng food tech sa LSPU in San Pablo. Actually siya yung pumalit sa job ko because I used to be yung bar manager dito in charge of the development ng bevirages. Now, nung nagaral nako, si Elmer yung pumalit sa akin as the head barista and the bar manager. Also, he's able to apply what he learned in school. Through the years, matagal na rin si Elmer Sam, since 2011, nakapag-join na rin siya ng national competition before sa barista competitions. So, si Elmer, akilala ko nyan. I'm Elmer. Ayong nga yung bali, yung sinaabili kay Davis bali. Ito yung second job ko saka. I-experience ko, bedyo wala ko alam sa coffee. Koy Davis lang yung at-train sa akin na tuto. Marami siyang tinubu sa akin din. Ne-apply ko naman sa mga bagong employee doon na nag-apply dito. And then, first day dito nung younger brother niya, si Niko. So, at-train namin siya ni Elmer since mag-open kamin ng two other branches. So, at least din within the family din, ma-supportahan din siya ni Elmer by giving his younger brother an opportunity to work here. So, Niko pa kilala ka na. I'm Niko. I'm graduating information technology. Bari nag-a-arri pa din po ako ng administration na pinupahakapusa DLSP dalubhasa ang nung soldier ng Sampabili. I'm 23 years old po. So ngayon nag-t-train siya maging barista because I find yung paging barista na it's an eye-opener for me kasi nung nag-train ako maging barista doon na open yung eyes ka sa entrepreneurship, sa organic agriculture, sa environment. So, I believe na at magandang starting point itong pag-appreciate ng natural resources natin tulad ng ng coffee. So, eto lang malit lang yung cafe nakapag-seat kami ng 30 people at a time. So, bakita lang din ni Elmer kung paano gumawa ng coffee. Gagawa siya ng isa para sa atin. Elmer ang... Mag-extract mo tayo ng coffee. So yan, nag-steam ng milk si Elmer. So ang ginagawa ng steaming hinihit niya yung milk sa nagtecture siya ng milk. So para magaroon yung creaminess yung milk. So para siya, yung texture niya parang tunaw na ice cream. So yan, ipo-pour niya dyan sa cup to make di cappuccino. Yung process na yan, yung mga pinag-aralan ni Elmer for a long time din. Ngayon siya na yung nag-train ng mga bagong barista namin. So yung process na yan, natatray namin toro kay nigo. Now it involves a lot of art and science para pag-aralan niyan. Me, myself nag-train ako sa Singapore 2 times and locally also to study how to make coffee this way and yung lahat nung mga knowledge na tutunang ko over the years pinapasa ko kanila Elmer tsaka sa mga naging barista namin. Kasi isa din sa mga advocacy ko ayaw ko mag-hord ng information. Gusto ko lahat ng natutunang ko na papasa ko rin sa ibang tao para ma-empower sila na ituro din sa ibang tao. Kaya it's up to them if they want to pursue their career either dito or in other places ang mahalaga na sa kanila yung information na yun at magiging valuable yung sa kanila pagtuturo ng ibang tao.