Profil of Cameroonian Entrepreneurs

PROFIL OF CAMEROONIAN ENTREPRENEURS
1 Name of the company
2 Location
3 Branches
4 Date of creation
Motives behind the creation (to be employed, to catch an opportunity, to increase end-of-
5 month income, to improve my status, to take care of my family, to satisfy my parents,
others…)
6 Status before the creation (What were you doing before the creation?)
7 Date of creation
8 Starting capital
9 Source of starting capital
10 Major activities
11 Secondary activities
12 Position in the organisation
13 Number of employees at the start
14 Number of employees now
Attitude towards employees (Paternalistic, working relationship, try to know more about
15 the employees and their problems, friendly, strict, very strict, understanding, caring, rough,
etc). You can choose more, you can add
Behaviour before the creation of the business (Arrogant, timid, optimistic, pessimistic,
16 recalcitrant, calm, hardworking, slow, fast, dormant, active, passive, aggressive, fighter,
quarrelsome, etc.). You can choose more, you can add.
Behaviour now (Arrogant, timid, optimistic, pessimistic, recalcitrant, calm, hardworking,

17 slow, fast, dormant, active, passive, aggressive, fighter, quarrelsome, etc.). You can choose
more, you can add.
18 Major external obstacles facing the business
19 Major internal problems encountered in running the business
20 Plan for the children
21 Succession plan in the organisation
22 Political affiliation
23 Social affiliation (Do you belong to any particular social group? If yes, which one (s)?)
24 Perception of Cameroonian employees by the entrepreneur
25 Socioeconomic status
26 Name of the entrepreneur

27 Address
28 28. contact
29 Date of birth, age
30 Gender (Male and Female)
31 Religion
Relationship with the tradition (Practice the tradition, admire it but don´t practice it, reject
the tradition, other…)
32 Nationality/race
33 Tribe
34 Main language
Other spoken languages
35 Family status
36 Number of wives
37 Number of concubines
38 Number of children within marriage
39 Number of children out of the mariage
40 Number of children under the custody apart from the biological children
41 Education Primary, High School, Secondary, College, Universities.
42 Different schools attended

43 Highest Educational certificate obtained
44 How do you qualify yourself as an entrepreneur? (Fighter, gentlemen, others: …
45 Personality: optimistic, pessimistic, envious, trusting, stingy, sharing
46 STATE WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THE FOLLOWING CIRSCUMSTANCES
47 You hear that your employee is constructing a house
48 Your shop is sealed
49 Your employee buys a new car
The car he bought is bigger than yours
50 Your relative working for you is creating many problems in the business
51 Your girlfriend or boyfriend works in your organisation
52 Others …
ONIAN ENTREPRENEURS
CITY TELECOM
PETITE MACHE ODZA YAOUNDE
Three branches in yaounde in diferent quarters
2020
As an entrpreneure, first is to be independent and own my own business, to be self

employed, to improve my standard of living, to be able to improve and employ others so
as to improve their standard of living too
I was into buying and selling then I worked with an enterprise after a period of time I
gained my expirience and having saving enough capital, I started my own enterprice
2020
3million
60% of my capital is from savings and 40% is from a loan
here we sell, starting from the latest electronics and testing and we do delivery,
we repair and assemble all kinds of electronics
director of the organization
the relationship I have with my employees, depends on the time. Starts with being
professional and then friendly when need calls for and we try by all possioble means tobe
on the right track with each other so as to make our working environment favourable for
business
before the creation of this enterprise, I was very ambitious and very optimistics and I
gave all my hardwork in other to achieve this, the key is know what you want and give
your best efforts and at the end you will have your reward
my behaviour now have not changed I still have the same mind set and I am still a fighter
ambisious and always ready to achieve more.
competition from other enterprices
lack of constant electricity
to provide for them and give them good education and make sure guid them to build
their own lives
my plan for the sucession in my organization is not yet fully developed but I will likely
hand over everything to my son
yes CPDM
yes I belong to a veterane football group, black stars of odza
cameroonian employees are rising to meetup with the demanding skills for their
organisations
middle class status
city telecom
PETITE MACHE ODZA YAOUNDE
65786602
25/06/1991
male
muslem
Admire it but don’t practice it
cameroonian
baayangam
french
non
married
one wife
non
non
non
high school
non
ordinary level certificate
I am a fighter, this is because am still struggling and still ambitious to gain more and be
more succesful
ambitious and trusting, my clients trust me to give them the best of my products and on
time whenz they need the products
first verify from him/her where the income is coming from
if my shop is seal,first you have to verify why and who, to seehow its going to be arranged
for the opening of the shop but my shop cannot be sealed because I pay all what am
supposed to pay on time
he/she will be questioned and see how and where the income is coming from
he/she will be questioned and see how and where the income is coming from
first , there is no relative in business, except he or she has the skills for it and if he or she
is disturbing,look for a way to bring him to oder and if it doesn’t work, then I have to let
him/her go and employ someone.
am married and sometimes its hard before my wife comes here. In business, you don’t
just employ because its family , you employ because the person is compitent to make
good profit and has the skills to run the organization
and I like to be succesfull in everything I do so I am very deciplined and punctual too.

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PROFIL OF CAMEROONIAN ENTREPRENEURS

1 Name of the company

12 Position in the organisation

13 Number of employees at the start

14 Number of employees now

Behaviour now (Arrogant, timid, optimistic, pessimistic, recalcitrant, calm, hardworking,

19 Major internal problems encountered in running the business

20 Plan for the children

21 Succession plan in the organisation

24 Perception of Cameroonian employees by the entrepreneur

26 Name of the entrepreneur

29 Date of birth, age

30 Gender (Male and Female)

38 Number of children within marriage

39 Number of children out of the mariage

41 Education Primary, High School, Secondary, College, Universities.

42 Different schools attended

44 How do you qualify yourself as an entrepreneur? (Fighter, gentlemen, others: …

45 Personality: optimistic, pessimistic, envious, trusting, stingy, sharing

46 STATE WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THE FOLLOWING CIRSCUMSTANCES

47 You hear that your employee is constructing a house

48 Your shop is sealed

49 Your employee buys a new car

The car he bought is bigger than yours

PETITE MACHE ODZA YAOUNDE

Three branches in yaounde in diferent quarters

As an entrpreneure, first is to be independent and own my own business, to be self

we repair and assemble all kinds of electronics

director of the organization

lack of constant electricity

yes I belong to a veterane football group, black stars of odza

middle class status

Admire it but don’t practice it

first verify from him/her where the income is coming from

and I like to be succesfull in everything I do so I am very deciplined and punctual too.

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