Mistakes are inevitable, really. You will make a mistake, today, tomorrow, and probably throughout your lifetime. Why then do we punish ourselves when we do? Why do a lot of us not learn from the mistakes? How do you bounce back from mistakes?
The High Growth Africa Summit is exclusively dedicated to teaching entrepreneurs how to build, scale and fund high growth businesses in Africa. Organised by Ingressive and Starta, this summit gathers the top entrepreneurs, investors and stakeholders from Africa, Silicon Valley and Europe to discuss how to build, scale and fund high growth businesses […]
Recently, we attended an event and different buzzwords flew over our heads. Words like invention, innovation, disruption and very recently “innovention”. So we thought to talk about it. Many people have coined words around innovation. Most of these words are to explain and buttress the significance of innovation to the […]
Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development, Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. However, I’m beginning to suspect this assumption may be wrong. WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? It’s […]
Hi Afropreneurs, Last weekend was quite interesting for us, first we hosted Audu Maikori at our Monthly Startup Grind Lagos Meetup and I joined my first book reading club (I noticed I don’t read anymore). Audu Maikori is not just a lawyer, he is an entrepreneur that changed the terrain of […]
Woohoo! Happy New Year!!! 2017 is already looking like an exciting and productive year. What is your watchword for this year? Mine is ‘do‘, no more excuses, just get things done! I’d love to know yours, please share in the comment section or on Social Media. Opportunities abound, and it […]
It’s 2017! Happy New Year!!! There’s been a lot of talk during recent days, in the press and on social media, about how awful 2016 was. On a political level, there were random changes that brought the Political unrest In Gambia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopa, the social unrest […]
A lot of people want to become freelancers because they don’t want to be bogged by the regular 9-5 cycle but they fail to realize that freelancing isn’t easy, you can’t just sit at home and expect work to come to you. Freelancing doesn’t start when you quit your job, […]
Hello Afropreneurs, As entrepreneurs we have all encountered difficult clients at one time or the other, if you haven’t you will soon. How do you then handle them? Is the Customer always right? Should you always bend to the needs of the customer/clients? Here are key points from our conversation: […]