Building webstores for global reach.

ALEX Lam is one of the young entrepreneurs you are always reading about.

Only 23, and having worked for just a year, he decided to start his own business, Integricity Corp Sdn Bhd - which among others, builds webstores, or fills virtual supermarkets with a host of products.

A major difference between him and many other young entrepreneurs deciding to chase their dotcom dreams is that he is not entering the industry when either the hype or capital is abundant.

And rather than knocking on the doors of the various venture capitalists to get funding to scale up very quickly, he is opting for the tried and tested method of building up a business organically, from internally generated funds.

"I always wanted to start up something of my own. …