KZ Businessman’s Road to Success Passes Through USA
Have you ever thought of starting your own business? The answer is: YES INDEED! But you don’t know how to start your own business, you don’t have a business idea, or maybe you dont know the market. Moreover, you have no knowledge in laws, taxes, credits, supervising entities, and another list of the weird expressions. But no worries, the KazSocial editors will help you to find confidence in yourself and believe in yourself.
Some people come up with amazing ideas on how to make money, such as selling an air from different cities in the canned goods. Other people just simply do a business on a success of the other big companies. A good example of such business is ZAGG company who sells a protection films for different touchscreen devices like iPhones, iPads, etc. Dont worry if your business idea is just simple or crazy, all you need is a good marketing plan and investors who’ll invest money in your start-up. Below you can find a useful link where you can find investors for your startup:
Istartup.kz – the web site for investors, startups and many other good tips for your business in Kazakhstan
Community on VK for people who have great ideas for business
project for providing support to young business and startups
company that is involved in many startups
medianovak.co
In this article you can find the answers to your questions, inspiration, and confidence. You will understand that the most important thing is to believe in yourself. I would like to share a story of a great success. I was super lucky to get a chance to interview a respectful businessman from Kazakhstan, the founder of the first ever Software Association in Kazakhstan: Azamathan Amirthaev. Many thanks to Azamathan that he found some time for the interview with us during his visit to Washington D.C.
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Azamathan can you please tell our readers about your background?
Hi everybody. My name is Azamathan. I studied at Specialized Republic Physics and Mathematics Boarding School, then I went to the Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications and I got degree with honors. During my studies I was always participating at International Mathematics Competition among technical universities. After the bachelor’s degree I decided to study finance, thus I finished Kazakh National Agrarian University in the major of economic and finance.
Azamathan can you tell our readers about your first experience in business? How did you start?
My first experience was with a retailing business. I remember that I was 13 years old when I started to sell the clothes in the market. To be honest, I was trying to sell everything: bread, the flour bags, etc. Thus I got an experience in the trade business. When I graduated from the board school, I understood that I have more time for business and I started to think which area to go to work. And I decided to provide a computer repair service. The business was going very well and I was able to save some money for the future investments. All the money which I have saved I invested to the business and ideas. Thus I bought the printers and opened small bookstores in each University. Also I bought the karaoke equipment and set up it in the parks and crowded places. I offer people affordable prices, thus we got a lot of the clients. For example one song for karaoke costed 50 tenge, which is less than one dollar.
I am impressed by your story, it sounds like you were working hard since you were 13. Please tell us what happened after? Before the interview, I looked at your biography on the internet and I know that you have your own Software Consulting company now. So could you please tell our reader how you came up with the idea to establish your own IT company based in Kazakhstan?
When I graduated from the university, I already had experience in selling and business. And I decided to open up my own company. Thus, in 2001 I opened my first company - KazNewTech. We started to develop the technical equipment of the second line of unified system of electronic document management of government agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan. We created united corporate information systems for local government offices (Zhambyl, Kyzylordinsk, South-Kazakh regions and ENU named after Gumilev).We got very lucky, while the company was developing, the President of Kazakhstan issued a law for automating all the Government Agencies, in order to improve the performance, and teaching the Government Employees new computer technologies. This is why our development was very demanded and we had many clients. In 2003, we completely finished the implementation of the program document for government organizations. We have successfully coped with the project in a short period of time, our work has been approved by a special commission. All together gave a big boost to the development of the company and business. In 2005 I was invited to be an Information President’s advisor of AO National Company “Kazakhstan TemirZholi”. Overall, during my carrier I was developing myself in the following directions:
IT security, IT consulting, Auditing, and conducting examinations.
Scheduling business processing: SAP, ORACLE
World vendors, server’s hardware
Developing Kazakhstan’s software
Developing software in Kazakhstan and automating business processes
Computer Technologies and networking, IT networks and service maintaining