Entrepreneurship in the Mekong Region: Opportunities in Cambodia

As Cambodia is entering into the factory age, there are clearly opportunities available in providing inputs for manufacturing, in addition to investing in factories themselves. At this early stage of economic development, there is a general lack of technical capacity and therefore a wide range of needs for training, management development, consultancy and research. To be successful in one of these fields, it is likely to need a local presence and a degree of local knowledge and awareness.

Some people will want to take management classes, and a resource for learning more is http://www.businessmanagementdegree.

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Entrepreneurship in the Mekong Region: Opportunities in Vietnam

As mentioned in the previous article, Vietnam is replete with attractive and good quality natural resources which have yet, in general, to be brought to market in a consistent and timely way with added value features. Coffee, for example, has become one of the principal exports, owing to climatic features and the coffee drinking culture in the country bequeathed in part by the period of French colonialism.

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Entrepreneurship in the Mekong Region: Opportunities in Myanmar

Many if not most entrepreneurs going to Myanmar have at least half an eye on the exploitation of the rich resources still remaining in that country. Burma was famous historically for its rich deposits of jade and precious gems, as well as the hardwood forests that now appear even more precious after neighbouring Thailand has been almost entirely deforested.

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Entrepreneurship: Choosing the Right Franchising Opportunity

As mentioned in the previous article, although franchising is not in itself really an entrepreneurial form of activity, there are some occasions in which it makes sense for an individual entrepreneur to consider taking on a franchise. Given that this is the case, therefore, the question then concerns how to choose which of the various opportunities is the right one.

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Entrepreneurship: Franchising

Franchising is of course not an entrepreneurial activity in itself (unless the entrepreneur acts as the franchisor) but a stint working as a franchisee can be of benefit to some people starting out in an entrepreneurial career.

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Entrepreneurship: The Industrial Ladder

The Industrial Ladder is a term used to describe the way that most if not all economies develop through time. Initially, economies are based on agriculture, principally subsistence or hand-to-mouth agriculture with all active members of the labour force expected to participate in acquiring enough food for all the community to survive. In due course, productivity increases through better understanding of the environment and this means the community can afford to have a small number of people not devoted to agriculture. Such people can take up different kinds of work: priests, soldiers, kings and so forth.

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Entrepreneurship: Recognising Opportunities

There is an enormous number of things that we, any of us, could do in order to try to make money. These range from the sensible and rational (e.g. continue working for a salary) to the non-rational (e.g. quit our job and hope to strike it rich in Motown or Bollywood) to the downright ridiculous (e.g. seek work as a professional assassin). When we are thinking about how, as entrepreneurs, we can look for opportunities, we should begin by making a mature, informed and comprehensive list of all those things that we could, hypothetically, do.

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