10 Business Ideas You Can Start with P100,000 Capital or Less

Sometimes when I see a store being flocked by a gazillion customers (“Dolor’s Kakanin” during Christmas comes to mind), I wonder how much they will earn that day. And as I waited patiently in line to score a bilao of their famous sapin-sapin, I get lost in a daydream of having my own business (or perhaps, my own fleet of franchise businesses).

Sometimes, it generates some pretty quirky ideas. For example, a barbershop for kids where the seats are like Gundam-pilot cockpits. The sign outside will say, “Pacific Trim”.

Or I think about businesses with witty names. I saw a photo of a siomai cart in Facebook fondly called, “SioGo” or Siomai-on-the-Go. As you can imagine, the logo and theme design was heavily inspired by a “popular” local hotel. I thought it was funny.

Kidding aside, if owning a business truly excites you, we hope this massive list of business ideas can help. Let’s get started!

(Amiel Pineda is a business and finance columnist at Grit PH – where he also authored this data-driven list of the top high-paying home-based online jobs in the Philippines. This article is a guest post from the author)