Entrepreneurship: Tips for success

Project developers and startups promoters are involved in a training Workshop at Empretec in Yaounde since June 8.

Patrice Tokam Foka dreams of poultry farming. The future entrepreneur wants to turn his small farm into a poultry complex. He imagines a mini-consortium which as part of the production is intended for food animal production and another for marketing.

Since Monday, he refines his strategies by participating in the Empretec Seminar-Workshop opened in Yaounde. "This workshop could help me since I want to get out of informal and develop a larger project," he said. The tools made available during this training are based on the behavior of an entrepreneur. "From there, I can acquire more skills to succeed in my plans," he explained.

Like him, Thierry Nyamen, general manager of a food company sat on the benches of the school of entrepreneurs. "It would be a mistake to believe that if you are already an entrepreneur, you no longer need certain concepts. This workshop is extremely important for young people and for those who are already established, "said the entrepreneur. Sometimes we asked ourselves many questions according to the evolution of the company "And do not always answer technical or financial, but rather managerial", he concludes.

Mariette Moulongo, coordinator of the Technipole Sup-Valor and trainer was of the same opinion. "Generally, entrepreneurs arrive with preconceived ideas. It's over the exchanges that they discover their weaknesses and leave with other realities. "

Indeed, learning is to provide participants with behavior to succeed. These are, according to the coordinator, the ability to seek business opportunities, endurance, search for quality and efficiency, the ability to set goals, confidence and ease in to make contacts.

Empretec is a micro development program, small and medium enterprises based on capacity building and sharing of experiences. Participants will be placed in situations through simulations, role plays, case studies.

The representative of the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts (MINPMEESA), Arsene Roger Bidzogo Mbia opened the proceedings. According to him, the goal is to "contribute to the development of a dynamic private sector and promotion of innovative and competitive SMEs."