Tag: entrepreneurship
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The Myth About Lack of Startup Capital – 3
Now let’s come to the employee. It sounds funny that while the job seeker is complaining of lack of start up capital, the employee joins the chorus. Where will the capital come from when you consume your capital every month? Many employees do not know that their salary is their capital. When you use money…
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The Myth about Lack of Start-up Capital – 2
Now let’s assume someone could not get his or her act together while in the University and all opportunities to accumulate seed capital no matter how minute has been frittered away. What about the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)? All youth Corpers have two sources of income during the service year – from their employers…
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From University Dropout to ICT Millionaire
By DAYO OKETOLA Wande Adalemo dropped out of Olabisi Onabanjo University to actualize his dream of building an Internet service company, which is now worth N1bn. He tells DAYO OKETOLA how it all started and what other young Nigerian entrepreneurs can learn from his journey. The Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Oxygen Broadband Networks, Nigeria’s…
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Building Trust With Every Action
As the internet proliferates and more and more business activity takes place online, the opportunities are growing as well. While the great “tech bubble” of the 90s may have scared many away from the opportunities available in the world-wide-web, many more have realized that the bubble was just that, a bubble. The opportunities exist; they…
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The Spirit of Entrepreneurship
The first thing that seems to come to mind when thinking about entrepreneurship is going into a profitable business to make money. At the heart of entrepreneurship is making your unique contribution and creating jobs. Both go hand in hand. One fantastic end product of entrepreneurship is finding your core and growing as a person.…
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Financial Freedom: Can We All Be Entrepreneurs?
Can we all be successful business owners, becoming employers rather than employees? Is it wrong to be an employee? The answer to both questions is NO. We cannot all be entrepreneurs in one go, leaving existing companies employee-less. It is not going to happen, for many reasons. Having a dream does not mean quitting your…