By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

ON THE ONE HAND, the entrepreneurs here included “bored engineers” who wanted to have some fun and money, and overachieving students who hope to create a Facebook-like service that would help match students with their college or course using the idea of crowd-sourcing.

On the other hand, you also have more mature firms like Ascendant Technologies, which has been in stealth mode for the past two years and is now ready to “go to the next level” with the patient information system it developed.

So far, the ideas presented during the second half of the elevator pitches involved business ideas related to e-learning, e-health, and
e-government.