Category Archives: Business

Embracing Self-Care and Following Your Dreams with Shumeka Haynes of Mekumi Bath

Whether you have a seasoned skincare routine or are just starting to get behind one, self-care seems like it’s a trend that’s here to stay. The market is exploding, and people now have countless product choices to add to their beauty stash, from ingestible collagen shots to charcoal face cleansers. But, with big brands cranking …

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Edgardo Toledo

March 22, 2022
Biking Boom: Reasons To Join the Two-Wheeled Revolution

Gearing to join the booming bike community?

Jocie Dimaculangan

June 3, 2021
Four ways we made remote work for us

Seeing remote working become the ‘new normal’ is one of the biggest positives of 2021. As a founder of a company that has embraced it since 2016, it’s exciting to see more businesses start to follow suit. It makes so much sense for a modern company because employees can focus on their job and be …

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Cheryl Ng, Founder

January 22, 2021
Clara Herrera, Girlboss with a Purpose

For Clara Day Herrera (@claradayh on Lemi!), months spent in lockdown have translated to ample time meditating and relying on the healing power of yoga to recuperate. The pandemic has hit her businesses hard; yet she shows no signs of distress, evident in her Instagram and Youtube updates that beam nothing but her charming candor. …

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Cass Lazaro

January 15, 2021
Why Philippines is our first choice

Significant untapped potential in the Philippines with a large, digitally literate and entrepreneurial society, as well as an MSMB-dominant economy (99.6%) Philippine MSMBs are facing more challenges pivoting to digitalisation compared to larger companies – a digital gap that Lemi for Business can help to fill The Philippines is the starting point for Lemi for …

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Cheryl Ng, Founder

January 4, 2021
’Twas the night before Christmas 2020

But while their life savings at first had seemed plenty, they hadn’t accounted for… well, 2020…

Matt Mayer, CTO

December 11, 2020
Powering SMEs for a better world

Small businesses (SMEs) are easy to miss. The snack seller on the street corner, the little noodle place next to the bank, and the local bakery – they don’t have large storefronts, dazzling ads or fancy displays. We might not notice if one shuts down. Or two.

Cheryl Ng, Founder

November 17, 2020
Are you Zerg or Protoss?

That first response was my CTO. It’s almost impossible to out-nerd my CTO. He too is a millennial and definitely does not live under a rock. Because Starcraft was the game that made e-sports a thing: a multi-billion dollar industry complete with pro-gamers, live streaming, and a re-conceptualisation of what gaming really can mean as …

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Cheryl Ng, Founder

May 6, 2020
Move over, asshole.

Without going into detail about companies that make money from the vicious spreading of negativity (creating an echo-chamber of ideas to create radicalized extreme viewpoints, destroying livelihoods in an effort to be “newsworthy”), or from the harvesting of life (whether killing animals for meat or killing trees for wood), there was a point in my …

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Cheryl Ng, Founder

November 30, 2019
Raising your first round of capital from friends, family, and fools

Yesterday I spoke to students at a career conference held by my alma mater, and I was asked the question: “How would I go about raising my first round of capital?” It occurred to me that the students had no idea that they were already on the journey to raise their first round of capital.

Cheryl Ng, Founder

November 28, 2019