Drawing examples of business success stories of common people that could be emulated in Bhutan, Success Resource, Asia’s largest seminar organizer and a million-dollar company, conducted an international workshop at the Thimphu BCCI hall yesterday.
The seminar was attended by around 100 aspiring entrepreneurs, the labor minister, Lyonpo Dorji Wangdi, representatives from government agencies and graduates seeking to join the IT sector. Richard Tan, the ceo of Success Resources and SkyQuestCom, ranked as the seventh fastest growing technology firm in 2005, presented entrepreneurship skills that can be adopted in traditional and the fast growing internet business sector.
Vivien Leow, the first female member of a million dollar club in South Asia, directed a session where each participant was given Nu 15 each. The participants then went around asking for loans. At the end of the session, some were left with no money while a few doubled the amount they had. The lesson learnt was on importance of entrepreneurship, accessibility to loans, and how an economic system works.
The seminar, initiated by BCCI to address the growing unemployment rate in the country, encouraged job-seekers to go beyond the give-me-a-government-job frame and become independent entrepreneurs. Richard Tan suggested the participants to read “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, a book by Robert Kiyosaki, which advocates financial independence through investing, real estate and owning businesses and the use of finance protection tactics. Asim Kafley, an IT graduate from Manipal University said, “The seminar has broadened my knowledge on internet business and I am convinced that we need no capital to start a business. All you need is the idea.” He repeated the lines of the main seminar presenter who said, “You don’t need to know everything to do something.”
The seminar also introduced business using the internet. “If you want to make money online, all you need to do is how to use the net, and how to send and receive emails,” said Richard Tan.
The speaker also briefed the participants on how to go about starting a business. Tenzin Dorji, a government employee said, “Given a chance, I would like invest on making a website with a collection of Bhutanese songs.”
Richard Tan said, “Today, ideas make money.”
The seminar was a supported by the Bhutan Foundation, Success Resources, and Business Bhutan as media partner.
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