PayrollHero Featured in ANC’s Future Perfect “Silicon Valley” Segment

PayrollHero, along with 5 other ON3 competition finalists, was featured and interviewed at ANC’s Future Perfect “Emerging Filipino Tech Companies headed to Silicon Valley” segment which was aired on July 18, 2012 7:00 PM PHT.

PayrollHero, recently selected as one of the winners of the ON3 Nationals and counted as one of the emerging filipino tech companies headed to Silicon Valley, was represented by company Co-Founder, Stephen Jagger.

The finalists and sponsors were interviewed by Future Perfect host, Tony Velasquez, who eagerly dived into a comfortable discussion about each start-up company’s product or service.

Stephen Jagger of PayrollHero talks about buddy punching

Among the finalists are X2wave, MiiMove, GroupJump and Guestlist.ph, all of whom were present at the guesting. Novare General Manager Kenneth Palacios and Plug and Play Co-Founder Jojo Flores were among the interviewees who gave more in depth insights and a clearer picture of the current tech start up status in the country.

Host Tony Velasquez, expressed his sheer interest in PayrollHero’s functions, especially its facial biometric and mood verification feature. He was interested in the SaaS’ ability to eliminate buddy punching, a costly problem experienced globally.

PayrollHero with the rest of the ON3 Finalists

When Plug and Play Co-Founder Jojo Flores explained the need to immerse themselves with the companies to see if they could gain more traction, Tony candidly stated that he would want to try out PayrollHero.

Join PayrollHero as we continue on this exciting adventure towards success at Silicon Valley!

See more photos of the event here

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PHRug Monthly Meetup: Backbone Orientation (Manila)

Last May 31, 2012, newbies and seniors from renowned tech companies flocked to our PHRug Monthly Meetup hoping to deepen their knowledge regarding Backbone.

Guests from companies such as Friendster, AELogica, Clinic-IT, Devez, EngineYard and more, as well as a handful of freelancers were present for this much awaited meet-up.

Not surprisingly, a good number of representatives from the top Ruby dev shops in the Philippines were present as well.

The meetup was spearheaded by PayrollHero’s own senior developers Suman Mukherjee and Piotr Banasik, both core members of PayrollHero’s talented dev team.

The first half of the meetup was dedicated to learning more about “backbone”, as presented by Suman. He tackled subjects like the conditions in which backbone may be used to single page web apps and a few workaround in backbone. He also gave some good practices, tips and suggestions in the use of JavaScript and showed a practical example of how PayrollHero has used backbone for its features.

Our head developer, Piotr Banasik, capped off the meet-up with a discussion regarding Chef for automating server set-up and deployment.

The talk aimed to provide peer developers, especially our own PayrollHero developers, an overview of the usage of Backbone.

The agenda proved to be fruitful as members of the audience expressed their gratitude stating that it was a great help since they were not quite familiar with some workarounds, documentations, design patterns and good practices regarding backbone.

After the talk and a pizza dinner, the guests were given a tour around the office and some could not help but admit that they were quite impressed with PayrollHero’s Kanban boards, strategies and procedures. They marveled at the office set up and some were given a demonstration of some of PayrollHero’s functions.

Though they were not present for the meet-up, representatives from Amazon Web Services also dropped by to have a quick tour of our office.

The night ended well as developers and tech geeks alike mingled and engaged in various discussions regarding their current learnings and their insights.

(So cheers to another successful meet-up and we are looking forward to seeing more of you soon.)

PayrollHero One Of Top 15 Companies In BCIC New Ventures Competition

The BCIC announced the other day that PayrollHero was one of the top 15 companies in the BCIC New Ventures Competition.  There were over 100 companies in the competition and BCIC choose 15 as the top 15 companies and then had a mini pitch competition to add an additional 10 companies leaving only 25 companies left.

The final 10 companies moving on to Round 3 of the competition have been announced and they are (in alphabetical order):

  1. Backyard BC
  2. ESL Explorer
  3. Mazza Innovation Ltd.
  4. MyBestHelper
  5. NaviDent Technologies Inc.
  6. Shared Desks (AppQii Technology Inc.)
  7. SterileCare Inc.
  8. Then.ly Network Inc.
  9. WTFast
  10. ZellChip Technologies Inc.

These companies join the fifteen Round 3 companies previously selected and listed below alphabetically making a total of 25 companies in Round 3.

  1. 3D Gateway Solutions Inc
  2. Big Mama Student Services Ltd
  3. Contract Tailor
  4. EVT Power Inc.
  5. Kairama Inc.
  6. MediaCore Technologies Inc.
  7. MobiSafe Systems Inc.
  8. NeuroMash
  9. NFC Interactive Inc. (Formerly Smart Button Technologies Ltd.)
  10. PayrollHero.com
  11. Pixton Comics Inc.
  12. Pug Pharm Productions Inc
  13. semiosBIO Technologies Inc
  14. Twothirds Water
  15. Warranty Life

PayrollHero Pitches in Singapore At Echelon (video)

PayrollHero was chosen by Echelon at one of the “Top 10 Startups in Asia” and invited us to pitch with 9 other companies at their big tech conference in Singapore.  We attended the conference had a booth in the demo pit and pitched PayrollHero on stage in front of a full house.

We revised our pitch a bit from the Jakarta event the week before.  Check it out below, let us know what you think:

SocialHRCamp; Keynote

I was invited to speak at tomorrow’s Social HR Camp as the opening keynote to kick the event off.  An honor to be included especially amongst the fantastic line up of speakers they have scheduled for tomorrow.  My quick opening talk is all about social media and the HR world.  Here is the overview:

Camp Kick-Off: “Let’s Get Revved Up”—Stephen Jagger
How is social media impacting business today, and in the future? Why does business need to care, particularly HR? What are the lost opportunities if organizations are not strategically leveraging social media? Book author of highly popular “Sociable” and perpetual entrepreneur (newest venture is PayrollHero.com) Stephen Jagger will set the tone for SocialHRCamp Vancouver attendees.

What is SocialHRCamp?
“SocialHRCamp explores how Human Resources professionals around the world can leverage social media to create and generate unparalleled business value.  This is not a typical conference where you spend most of your time being spoken at.

SocialHRCamp allows YOU to be an active participant in shaping the “UnConference”—be as active as you want to be.  From passive audience member to leading a session on a topic related to HR and social media, the experience is yours to create.

Social media is not a fad—with 800 million+ Facebook users, over 175 million Twitter users, 4 billion YouTube views every day, and the impact of other platforms like LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+ and many more, the opportunity for HR to tap into this audience is enormous.

Whether you’re new to social media or an expert, SocialHRCamp is for you.  You will be able to customize your Camp experience based on your skill level—beginner, intermediate and advanced.  Not only will you learn from others, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with your peers and showcase your talents and interests in an impactful way.”

Interested in attending?  Here is the full agenda… hope to see you tomorrow.

Founders Dinner: Vancouver, BC

I have been attending a “Founders Drinks” event every 5 or 6 weeks in San Francisco at Thumbtack.com co-founder Jonathan Swanson’s condo for the since the start of 2012.  It is a get together of some of San Francisco’s movers and shakers in the technology industry.

I have enjoyed the events so much that I decided to bring the concept to Vancouver as a way to bring together some of Vancouver’s technology leaders.  The other night was our second dinner where we did a catered meal at BuildDirect’s swanky new offices downtown Vancouver.

This months guest list included…

James Mazur co-founder of AfterMyDeal.com
Matt Friesen co-founder of Wantering.com
Nick Molnar co-founder of Wantering.com
Olivier Vincent founder of CanPages.ca
Andrea Shillington founder of BrandsForThePeople.com
Christian Cotichini co-founder of Make Technologies
Jeff Booth co-founder of BuildDirect.com
Tony Wind co-founder of Crystal Reports
Jason Billingsley co-founder of Elastic Path
Chris Breikss co-founder of 6SMarketing.com
John Blown co-founder of 6SMarketing.com
Harry Yeh co-founder of Comet Computing
Basil Peters M&A Advisor
Kris Krug Photographer
Stephen Jagger co-founder of PayrollHero.com
Rob Banks co-founder of BuildDirect
Michael Stephenson co-founder of PayrollHero.com

 

ON3 Pitching Competition: PayrollHero Wins

PayrollHero took part in a pitching competition in Manila, PH a week ago for ON3 Business Plan Competition for the NCR and Southern Luzon Region at the Meridian International (MINT) Business Arts and Technology College.  Two PayrollHero team members Tin Sanchez and Margarita Dumlao presented the business to the judges against a few other Philippine startups and PayrollHero was chosen as the winner! That is the second competition that PayrollHero has won in the Philippines this month.

Echelon 2012 – Philippines Satellite; Payroll Hero Wins!

Payroll Hero was selected to take part in the Philippines Satellite event last night as part of the Echelon 2012 Technology Conference that is coming up in June 2012 in Singapore.

What is Echelon 2012?
Echelon 2012 is a two-day, double-track event on June 11-12 with over 1,100 delegates, a startup marketplace of up to 50 startups and various workshops. Echelon 2012 will be the biggest ever edition of Asia’s best startup event. It will discover Southeast Asia’s best startups on an all new scale.”

Echelon 2012 setup a 6 city tour to “hunt for the most promising startups in Asia” and Payroll Hero was chosen to participate in the Philippines event. The startups chosen to pitch where;

1) Guestlist.ph – an online guest listing service and nightlife social networking site

2) Collabspot – an online project management tool based on Kanban boards

3) Bolooka – an e-commerce website generator

4) Payroll Hero – payroll generation in the cloud for web and mobile

5) Mobile9 – And open, local and social app store

6) Paybilis – Bill collection and payment service

7) Infinte.ly – a central hub for small business owners to manage their web presence

The pitches were judged by Mohan Belani of e27, Jay Fajardo of Roofcamp, Simone Brunozzi from Amazon Web Services, Ben Gillenwater from Research In Motion and Miguel Paraz who is a mobile consultant.

Each startup did a fantastic job pitching their business but in the end, the judges choose Payroll Hero as the winner!

Asia Bridge Forum Taipei – “Business Revolutions in the Cloud”

Payroll Hero co-founder Michael Stephenson was on stage at the Asia Bridge Forum in Taipei speaking on a panel about “Business Revolutions in the Cloud” to Entrepreneurs Organization /Young Presidents Organization members from 16 countries.

Joining Mike on the panel was the Simon Huang the Chairman of WPH Holdings which the largest electronics distributor in Asia, David Siu a VC from Hong Kong and Koki Uchiyama a Japanese internet pioneer. 

(Michael Stephenson)(Pictures courtesy of Julia Chen)