India, Mexico to discuss feasibility to free trade pact

The Economic Times published on Tuesday 26th of January 2010, in its printed edition a very short article which is quite interesting for people like me that are in the business between India and Mexico:

India and Mexico would discuss the feasibility for a free trade agreement in May to boost two-way trade, a senior Mexican official said on Monday. A high-level joint group on economic and financial matters would have its second meeting in May to discuss the FTA among other matters, the Mexican ambassador to India, Jaime Naulart, said here. "It is at a very nascent stage and we are looking at the feasibility of such an agreement," he said during an interactive session with members of the Indian Chamber of Commerce. Addressing the members of the chamber, Naulart said Mexico saw the FTA as one of the tools to solve the country's economic problems.

This Free Trade Agreement would be a wonderful opportunity that we must take advantage of when it comes. I hope the information will be easily available soon!

The Entrepreneurship Process. Block #1

I received the link to this video through a group of Mexican Entrepreneurs in LinkedIn. It is an interview with Mrs. Silvia de Torres Carbonel, the Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at I.A.E. the leading business school in Argentina. It is in Spanish, but offer below a few notes in English in a point format.

• The Entrepreneurship process is a process started at an individual level, i.e. in the person.
• It is an attitude, not a characteristic of the person.
• It takes you to be alert for opportunities, enthused about them.
• The enterprise is born in the heart, mind... and hands of the entrepreneur. Which need to be able!
• The entrepreneur is a person that generates employment.
• Entrepreneurship is the key for generating employment, especially in developing economies like ours (referring to Argentina, but also applies to India and Mexico, of course)

A successful entrepreneur is:

1. A person that is open.
2. A person extremely flexible in the execution: we don't always have all the resources, we must get them.
3. Knows how to leadership the starting organization.
   

This is the first of 3 blocks.