Business networking as an influential business community for Thai start-ups.

Abstract

This research paper aims to initially explore the influences of business connections from attending entrepreneurial related business seminars, respecting the sake of early-stage entrepreneurs or start-ups and strengthening a more effective entrepreneur performance. The study will merely bring up and cover the influences on the early-stage entrepreneurs who are here sometimes called start-up and whose businesses are newly emerged to the marketplace and their business plans are modeled to new creative ideas accordingly. The study also points the aims to the understanding of business networking accumulated from the business seminars in which facilitators in the programs can give some impacts on start-ups in Thailand. The study’s results revealed that there are three dimensions derived by a business community which includes business direction, competitiveness and benchmarking. Attending seminars more or less provide a benefit to the start-ups. Yet, in order to gain those three dimensions, the start-ups need to embed themselves into a healthy business community where they are able to present their business’s highlighted resources and ideas. As well as, the final results show that the start-ups need to continuously build their interesting entrepreneurial profile and social existence in order to be able to call more attention from other talented start-ups and being in a healthy business community.