Camp to create entrepreneurs
By James Kon MYBE 

Management Services will organise a business camp living the school holiday this September, bearing the theme "Empowering Brunei's Future Leaders Through Entrepreneurship". Like similar camps elsewhere, the MYBE business camp is aimed at accelerating the "process of learning, experiencing and acquiring business skills through direct exposure to a simulated real-life business environment for budding entrepreneurs of all ages." MYBE Management Services is a 100% bumiputera company that offers business services that range from business start-up facilitation and book-keeping, to secretarial and training services.

The camp will be "packed with fun and games" aimed promoting entrepreneurial skills. Participants will be youngsters between the ages of 6 to 18. The registration fee for participants in the age group of 6 to 9 years olds will be $80, while those older will have to pay $100.

The objective of the programme is to produce individuals endowed in entrepreneurial skills. This will give them the "creativity, leadership and mental toughness" needed to contend with today's technology-inclined era.

The managing director of MYBE, Pg Khairol Pg Sabtu, said 95 % of businesses fail in the first five years of their operation, mainly due to their failure to manage three major elements of business - cash flow, clients and products.

MYBE seeks to help companies to solve such problems. Apart from educating the future generation through the business camp, MYBE could also help promote entrepreneurship as a career choice among Brunei's youngsters while changing their attitude from a "looking for a job" mindset to a "creating jobs" mentality.

At the same time, the MYBE business camps may help to build new generations of successful entrepreneurs. Participants will be given the chance to try out their newly acquired business skills by taking part in the MYBE Brunei Business Camp Trade Fair at the Yayasan SHHB Shopping Complex.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin