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You Need These Five Things To Become a Successful Startup Founder

You don’t want to join the ranks of failed startup founders. The truth is, that club is much easier to become a part of than a lot of wannabe entrepreneurs realize. They make the mistake of not counting the costs

How to Turn Your Hobby Into an Income Generating Business

Many people detest their jobs. They find ways to feign illness and take sick leave when the opportunity presents itself, literally fly out of the office as soon as it’s 5 PM (in some cases, much earlier), and count the

Nigeria’s Tomato Business: Emerging from the Red?

Tomatoes haven’t always been a part of the average Nigerian’s diet. First cultivated in South America, they were spread throughout the world by roaming European colonists. Today, tomatoes are a necessary ingredient for many West African dishes. Because tomatoes have

Seven Signs You Are An Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs are a standout species. It takes more than the average person’s approach to risk, opportunities, and creativity to thrive in the sometimes turbulent world of business; those who dare to take the entrepreneurial path and make something noteworthy out

Five Ways To Get Your Business Noticed

What’s the point of running a business if the revolutionary product it makes or the fantastic service it delivers are barely known to the world beyond the walls of the building from which it operates? Can it even get anything

Five Reasons Why Your Business Isn’t Growing

Hacking business growth isn’t rocket science- at least, not when it comes to laying out possible obstacles to achieving growth and coming up with solutions. The actual process of implementing the right solutions may be somewhat complex, but it’s usually

Six Things You Should Never Leave Out Of Your Business Plan

You wouldn’t dare set out from a seaport to a location ‘on the other side of the water’ without having some sort of navigational tool and at least a good idea of where you’re headed. But many aspiring entrepreneurs think

Five Ways To Reduce Business Costs

If there’s one thing that businesses in Nigeria have in common, apart from the fact that they’re in Nigeria, it must be the struggle to cover the cost of staying afloat without getting sunk by debt , or in the

Six Questions You Should Ask At a Networking Event

You can make your next networking event more than just an exhibition of repetitive questions or an extravagant celebration of small talk. This article shows you how. Perhaps you don’t regard yourself as a talker (let alone a vivacious chatty

Websites we Love: Wakanow.com

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step, they say, and that’s how wakanow.com came to be. Founder of wakanow.com, Obinna Ekezie, had no idea when he was enrolled in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1999 that

How a Startup Can Prevent Early Stage Collapse

For all the excitement that surrounds Nigeria’s booming startup culture, only a few of the new market disrupting revolutionary ventures (if they’re what they claim to be) actually survive long enough to make a mark on the economic landscape. The

Five Proven Ways to Make Your Business More Profitable

First off, please read the following quote carefully: Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable. -James

How To Get Your Business Out of Debt

It’s easy to get hooked by debt. Overly optimistic expectations about revenues may inspire entrepreneurs to take up a loan or purchase large supplies on credit. Emergencies may shoot into the fray, forcing usually prudent business owners to seek out

What It Takes To Build A World Class Business

The really successful, globally recognized brands aren’t finding their way into people’s lives simply because they’re so big. They are what they are because the people running them are dedicated to making their company work, and because the systems and

Story! Story! When Will Brands Finally Get This?

There’s a reason so many of us flock to the movies or spend hours reading novels – it’s because we love to get lost in a good story. If you ever listen to a good conversation, you’ll notice that a

Art and Business is Like Rice and Stew

Art and Business are two elements that every creator of artistic content (movies, comedy, drawings, music etc.) must blend together to be successful. It is one of the hardest things to do as we constantly see people struggle and often

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