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Small businesses: the importance of knowing your market

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By James Caan Guardian Professional , 11-06-2014 Entrepreneurs often ignore the need for market research, but knowing that your product is commercially viable is the difference between a successful business and a hobby. Market research can be essential in building a successful business. So you've had a lightbulb moment and come up with a business idea. Now you need to ask yourself a simple question: "'Will my idea work?"

Décentralisation: Yaoundé II implémente le développement de proximité

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Par Jean Francis BELIBI, Cameroon Tribune, 17-06-2014 La commune vient de procéder à l’installation de 29 de ces structures sur l’ensemble de son territoire. Favoriser une citoyenneté active par laquelle les individus deviennent acteur et auteur dans le développement de la municipalité ; créer les conditions d’une véritable expression des habitants et générer des modes de coopération et de concertation entre habitants, élus locaux, institutions dans l’élaboration et la mise en œuvre des politiques publiques locales ;

Richard Branson on Why Creativity Grows With Experience

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At almost every established company, there are employees who have been around for such a long time and are so good at their jobs that everyone else has a hard time imagining the business functioning without them. They know every client, or they’re expert at getting things done, or when a problem comes up that no one else knows how to solve, they can remember a solution that worked once, a long time ago, and will do the trick now.

How to manage maternity leave in your small business

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By Mark Williams, Guardian Professional , 1 7-06-014 As long as you plan ahead and it is well managed, maternity leave need not be a problem for your company New arrival: SMEs should start to plan ahead as soon as they are told of a staff pregnancy. Photograph: Hugh Threlfall / Alamy "Managing maternity leave is a challenge for all employers,

13 Best Practices for Building Solid Small Business Operations

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By The Young Entrepreneur Council , Small Business Operations, 16-06-2014 Running and scaling a business will always be challenging. But having a solid foundation of smoothly operating practices underlying your company can make it much easier. To find out how successful entrepreneurs were building their operations, we asked 13 founders from Young Entrepreneur Council ( YEC ) the following question: “As a business owner, what do you feel is most important when it comes to building solid small business operations?”

My Biggest Failure? Failing to Recognize Failure

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By Robert Moore, boss.blogs.nytimes, 16-06-2014  Anyone who has picked up a business book, attended a panel discussion or read an entrepreneurship blog in the past several years has probably learned about the virtues of “failing fast.”

Bills On Agreements, Protocol Before Senate

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By Emmanuel KENDEMEH, Cameroon Tribune, 16-06-2014   The President Marcel Niat Njifenji chaired the June 13, 2014 plenary sitting during which the three bills were tabled. Two days after the opening plenary sitting of Parliament for the June 2014 ordinary session on June 11, 2014, Senators were once more in a plenary sitting on Friday, June 13 during which three government bills were tabled for scrutiny and adoption. The plenary sitting was chaired by the President of the Senate, Marcel Niat Njifenji. Cameroon-Morocco Investments

Journalists Acquire Innovative Financing Tools

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By Godlove BAINKONG, Cameroon Tribune, 16-06-2014 Members of “Presse Eco” on June 12, 2014, sharpened skills on the mechanisms of raising funds from the capital market. Economic affairs journalists in Cameroon, members of a network, “Presse Eco” are now edified on the technicalities and reasons behind raising money from the capital market (Stock Exchange) to feed the State treasury for the financing of growth-induced projects. This follows a one-day capacity-building workshop on their honour organized Thursday June 12 by the Directorate General of Treasury of the Ministry of Finance on the theme, “New Mechanisms of financing the State treasury.”

6 Things Sports Can Teach You About Success

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By Beth Brooke-Marciniak, 10-06-2014 What do you get when you bring together an all-star panel of women Olympians and business leaders, and ask for their advice to women athletes who are looking to get ahead in the business world? You get one great insight after another, as we recently learned at a webcast for the EY Women Athletes Business Network. The webcast, “Playing to win: lessons from women athletes and leaders,” was held in March 2014 in celebration of International Women’s Day.

Entrepreneurs: Significant, Consistent Job Creators

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By Maria Pinelli,Forbes.com, 06-04-2014 The global economic recovery carries on — sometimes feeling like a full recovery, sometimes not, depending on where you are in the world. But one big source of encouragement for me — in the past three years, it has yet to let me down — is the rate of job creation among our EY Entrepreneur Of The Year ™ winners. This creative, hard-working and often unconventional community of high achievers is once again doing its share to help raise the standard of living in the countries where they operate.

Creative Entrepreneurialship - 3 Steps To Turn Talent Into Self Employment Cash!

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By Deborah Catherine Nelson   Thanks to the PC and the World Wide Web, everyone now has the opportunity to become successfully self-employed. It is amazing how these tools have revolutionized everything. How can you take advantage of these tools and the marketplace to turn your talent into cash? Although it is fairly simple to do so, it is not easy. Making the transition from getting a regular paycheck can be challenging for many. Many of us have been raised and trained to think that the legitimate way of making a living is to go to college or a trade school and get a job.

Spirit of the Entrepreneur

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Passion These 5 characteristics will take you far as you start your business.  You hear it all the time from famous entrepreneurs: Long before they were running multimillion-dollar companies, they were flexing their entrepreneurial skills by selling lemonade on the corner, building gadgets in their garage or hosting weekly college beer pong tournaments. It seems that behind every successful mogul is a kid who grew up knowing they were born for business.

Coopération Cameroun - BAD: augmenter les chances de réussite des projets de développement en Afrique

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Sous la présidence du Ministre Emmanuel NGANOU DJOUMESSI, les travaux de l’atelier régional de sensibilisation et de renforcement des capacités sur l’atténuation des risques en Afrique, ouverts le 10 juin   ont pris fin ce 11 juin 2014 à l’Hôtel Hilton de Yaoundé . Cet atelier  cible pas moins de 50 acteurs des secteurs public et privé impliqués dans les projets d’infrastructures, ainsi que les opérateurs des marchés des capitaux :

Partenariat Cameroun-FAO : Un recensement général sur l’élevage et l’agriculture en gestation pour soutenir le secteur rural

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Le Ministre Délégué auprès du Ministre de l’Economie, de la Planification et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, M. YAOUBA ABDOULAYE a reçu en audience le jeudi 15 mai 2014, une mission du Fonds des nations unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) que conduisait M. Paul NGOMA KIMBATSA. Au menu des échanges : la préparation d’un recensement général sur l’élevage et l’agriculture au Cameroun .

Projet d’aménagement de la route Batschenga-Ntui-Yoko-Tibati-Ngaoundéré : le Gouvernement en quête de financements

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Le MINEPAT a organisé une réunion d’information et de sensibilisation des Partenaires Techniques et Financiers hier lundi 09 juin 2014, à Yaoundé, dans l’optique de susciter leur adhésion  pour la mise en œuvre du projet. Cette opération de charme en direction des partenaires au développement a consisté en la présentation du projet aux plans technique, socio-économique dans le cadre de l’aménagement du territoire.

L'effectuation et ses 5 clés pour créer : la fin des créateurs d'entreprise super-héros

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Par Valérie Talmon, business.lesechos.fr, 26-02-2013 L'effectuation, c'est une nouvelle manière d'envisager la création d'entreprise. Une méthode, 5 principes-clés et un message central : après le créateur « super-héros », vive le créateur de terrain ! Comment font les entrepreneurs pour créer et surtout pour réussir ? C’est la question que s’est posée une chercheuse américaine, Saras Sarasvathy.  Ces travaux commencent à faire parler d'eux en France grâce notamment à un entrepreneur aujourd’hui professeur d’entrepreneuriat à l’EM Lyon, Philippe Silberzahn.

The Startup Hierarchy of Needs

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By Josh Linkner , forbes.com, 12-06-2014 In 1943, esteemed psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed his now-famous Hierarchy of Needs, which has withstood the test of time as a well-accepted framework for the way we think, interact with others, and survive accordingly. The hierarchy is structured as a pyramid, with the bottom representing our most fundamental, basic needs as humans. Once those have been met sufficiently, then we are able to figuratively “move up the pyramid,” into other categories.

Behind the rise of entrepreneurship

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By Sophie Wade , FortuneMagazine , 12-06-2014 Technology, funding and cultural developments are stimulating new business ownership. It has been a laggard recovery thus far, but the economic outlook shows interesting potential. A combination of developments in technology, financing and corporate culture is behind the rising power and leverage of small companies.

Vers la vulgarisation du « made in Cameroon »

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Par Sorèle GUEBEDIANG , Cameroon Tribune, 12-06-2014 La présentation et l’appropriation du plan national de développement au cœur d’un atelier jeudià Yaoundé. Conscient du rôle majeur que la propriété intellectuelle joue sur le développement des économies des pays émergents, le Cameroun a mis sur pied un Plan national de développement de la propriété intellectuelle (PNDPI), couvrant la période 2014-2018.

La bourse des matières premières en vedette

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Par  Assiatou NGAPOUT, Cameroon Tribune, 12-06-2014 L es étudiants de l’Iric ont fait un zoom sur cette institution jeudi à Yaoundé à l’occasion de la quatrième édition des Rencontres internationales de la finance. 20 ans déjà que la filière Banque-Monnaie-Finance internationale (BMFI) existe à l’Institut des relations internationales du Cameroun (IRIC). Pour célébrer l’événement, l’Amicale des étudiants de cette filière en a profité pour organiser la quatrième édition des Rencontres internationales de la finance.