Dear Everyone, One thing I keep saying and will continue to say is how social media can easily distort the picture of entrepreneurship. Most of the time, we prefer to share the good stuff rather than our failures and frustrations, because good stuff makes us feel...
Dear Entrepreneur, Don't forget to be grateful. Don't forget to recognize the good times. Entrepreneurship is one heck of a roller coaster ride. One day you are happily celebrating an achievement and the next day something goes wrong and you begin to wonder what the...
Dear Entrepreneur, Please finish your degree. Don't fall for the college dropout misinterpretation. Don't drop out of school yet. The whole "You don't need a degree to be successful because Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and now Jay Z and co dropped out of school and...
Dear Entrepreneur, Don’t forget to think seriously about the big picture. Your vision; where you see your venture many years from now. It is easy to get caught up in the day to day running of your startup that you forget to give very serious thought to the big...
This post was inspired by Brett Fox's post Dear Entrepreneur, When you are starting out, you need a fanatical team. One key factor which determines whether your startup will succeed or fail is your team. You are either working with the right people or you aren't. When...
Dear Aspiring Entrepreneur or Professional, Here's a thing or two about asking people to mentor you. Know Your Goals. Before you ask someone to mentor you, please know what your goals are and how that mentor can help you achieve them. One common trend I see among...
Dear Entrepreneurs, Stop following hype and living for vanity metrics. The advent of social media has made it very easy to deliberately or unconsciously project an image of yourself which could be misleading or different from the reality of things. Sometimes, it may...
On February 28th, in my 2nd Twitter Chat, I was a guest on Tentmaker Ghana’s Twitter Chat talking about turning an idea into a business and recounting my experiences. In this post, I have compiled the questions I answered as well as my responses to the questions I was asked. So here we go!
Financial challenges are among the most concerning hurdles when starting up your own business.This is where startup accelerator programs can help you.