Yesterday 23 Feb 2017 I joined a Start Up and Angel Event at Raintree. It was good to see the new startups and young entrepreneur in Cambodia. I can't help but compare myself to them. I know it's not a healthy thing to do by comparing yourself to another, but I can't help. The young entrepreneurs have done a lot of things, met a lot of people from investors to fellow entrepreneurs. Some of them have secured thousands dollar of funding as seed money to expand their business. I am in a 8-to-5.30 job and not sure where my life is heading. I've listened to the pitch of Bookmebus (a mobile platform to buy bus ticket), Mediaload (online media provider) and Codigate (IT solution).
Networking
On to networking, I don't know why I still can't find the courage to go speak to experienced and senior people. I just didn't have the confidence. I only managed to talk with a few friends and some new people. I've talked with many young entrepreneurs. Some of them were like only 20. Well, I just want to talk with them about their business ideas and vision, but I also get the impression of expectation from those young entrepreneur. I did not speak to them with the intention of funding their business or anything. I wanted to speak with the foreign expats dressed in suit and tie, but I just couldn't find the courage to do, as I know that I have almost nothing to help them.
Play and Relationship
I'm pretty active with my life actually. That's one of the positive thing that I can be proud of. I do a lot of cycling, swimming, table tennis, football. I also went to many events lately. Doggy Day, Acoustic event, Scholar Library event, alumni association anniversary. I hope to bring my own dog to the event sometime soon hopefully. Also tried different types food - Middle eastern, French, Japanese. I hope we can explore more food places together: Mexican, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Korean and join more events together: Farmers Market, Food Festival, Music Festival, Movie Festival and travel to new destination whether it's local or international - Kampot, Koh Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thai.
I'm thinking of joining Kizuna festival this Sunday. Also I'm traveling abroad M to join a business conference as well, which I am very excited to contribute and meet other professionals from all over ASEAN. I hope to build good relationship with them, as I didn't seize full opportunity of such events in the past.
Where do I go from now?
This part of life is called "Struggle" - struggling between choosing what kind of job to do or starting your own company. I think for now I would concentrate on working first to get more experience, meet more people and save more money. Also I don't have this groundbreaking idea for a business. What I can think of right now is a mobile platform to connect dog owners to dog service providers, from dog salon to dog walking. Also this mobile platform can help find a date for their dog as well. Another hot industry right is financial technology (Fintech). Well, I need to do more research on this hot sector.
But for now, my prototype for the work that I want to do is to become an investment manager within the next 5 years. So I hope do more investment evaluation, study more industries, learn more about deal structuring. I also look forward to talking with finance people in private equity and venture capital.
I promise to update this blog with another post next week. Will try to update what has happened in my life on a weekly basis.
Until next time.
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