The surprising reason early-stage companies fail | Christopher B.Beselin | TEDxBISHCMC Youth
Christopher’s conviction has always been that the main inherent challenges in building successful businesses from scratch are internal and takes place inside the company builder’s own mind. This conviction runs opposite to the widely held view that the primary challenges are tangible, external and hence can be clearly identified (and blamed) in the physical world. “Building businesses in emerging markets from scratch - a reflection and battle of the mind” puts us inside the mind of a serial emerging market entrepreneur; helps us to reflect and ask ourselves the right concise questions that matters as we set off on the daunting journey of building something out of nothing. Christopher B. Beselin is a Swedish company builder & investor that has been living in Vietnam since early 2012. He came to Vietnam in order to start the country’s largest ecommerce marketplace, Lazada.vn. He was the CEO & Co-founder of the business for the first three years, in parallel to being CEO for Lazada Malaysia. The group was later sold to the global ecommerce group, Ali Baba. Subsequently, Christopher B. Beselin moved on to build up a range of additional businesses from scratch within tech, ecommerce and investments, all in Southeast Asia. Apart from Lazada, he has founded and sold/IPO:d four companies – Intrepid, Fram PLC, Fram IT Development and Pangara. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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