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I write this piece on a day which marks the 45th anniversary of that famous speech by the late civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King (jnr), delivered at the Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C.i have a dream that one day sons of slaves and sons of slave owners will……………45 years after, that dream is […]

USA Today writes about Kase Lawal of CAMAC International:
This particular entrepreneur’s story has become even more relevant for me today as I think about what model of entrepreneurship I plan to pursue. It is evident that one has to find a way to develop a unique competitive advantage. A melding of the unique knowledge […]

The three secrets of wise decision making are courage, creativity, and balance in the management of complexity. The courage to be rational faces up to complexity in order to get the problem solved; creativity adds to complexity in order to achieve a more complete understanding of the problem; and balanced judgment evaluates complexity in […]

Remember Jack Welch, the long-time Chairman and CEO of General Electric, has been hailed as the greatest business leader of our era and deservedly so? Here are some advices from him in the book,‘ 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch’ by Robert Slater

Happy Reading!!

Accept change. Business leaders who treat change like the enemy will fail […]

When you think about the impact natural or human-caused disasters can have on your business, consider your most important resources:

Human Resources

If you are the sole proprietor of your business, then you obviously need to protect yourself and your customers from possible injury in the event a disaster occurs. In small and mid-sized businesses, you need […]

There’s a kind of war going on inside the owner of every small business. It’s a three-way battle between The Entrepreneur, The Manager, and The Technician:

THE ENTREPRENEUR

The entrepreneurial personality turns the most trivial condition into an exceptional opportunity. The Entrepreneur is the visionary in us. The dreamer. He lives in the future, never in the […]

MyC4 is an online community which provides a dynamic platform to create and support new enterprises and commercial innovation in Africa.  The vision of the site is to end poverty, and MyC4 has a strict selection process which identifies entrepreneurs looking to develop companies that provide healthy economic prospects for growth.  The screened entrepreneurs then […]

The African Entrepreneur
Basil Enwegbara
Culled from Tech-IT

When most African countries became independent during the 1960s, joining the political class was more appealing and rewarding than going into the private sector. So highly educated Africans did not hesitate to go to where the money and the prestige were. It was only those who could not […]

“In the Age of Revolution, it’s the incumbents against the insurgents, the old guard versus the vanguard, the hierarchy of experience clashing with the hierarchy of imagination.”

I read a book written by Gray Hamel, Leading the Revolution and I can say, the book is an eye opener

According to him, we now stand on the threshold […]

Hope is Africa’s rarest commodity. Yet buried though it is amid the despair that haunts the continent, there is more optimism today than in decades. Francisco Mucavele found hope last September when an armored steel Casspir rolled over the hill and began to blow up the land mines contaminating Mozambique’s rich soil. Olga Haptemariam acquired […]

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away, products were responsible for the fate of a company. When a company noticed that its sales were flagging, it would come to one conclusion: its product was starting to fail. Now things have changed. Companies don’ t blame the product, they blame the brand.

It isn’ […]

2nd April 2008
Honourable guests;
Officials;
Ladies and Gentlemen.
 
If I had a grand wish to make this morning, it would be that all my schedules were cancelled and I could be in Lagos with this distinguish audience. Please pardon me believing that I have tried as much as I could but to no avail.
I would declare this morning […]

Am glad I was born on October 14,1983. God bless that dark night . Thank God I was born in Nigeria - Africa at the dawn of her emergence.Think about it Ghana just found oil, Inflation is down to the single digits, GTBank raises  bonds in Europe, Telecoms is producing millionaires in Nigeria, Globacom is […]

Until she hits you, you’ll never know how mighty China is. Last year I  bought three flash drives and all the three crashed in a space of two months , they were obviously imitations., then suddenly it hit me that providing  reliable flash drives would be a good  business since there had been a lot […]

Springwise and its network of 8,000 spotters scan the globe for smart new business ideas, delivering instant inspiration to entrepreneurial minds from San Francisco to Singapore. Time to start the Next Big Thing!
What is Springwise?
Springwise scans the globe for the most promising business ventures, ideas and concepts that are ready for regional or international […]

Putting his career on the line at the age of 43 — he quit his job at British Telecom to start his own company.
He also started mobile phone operator Celtel which is in 14 African countries. Cashing in and now rich beyond his wildest dreams, he now has his own foundation.
CNN’s Todd Benjamin caught up […]

Africa’s youth are the ones who will create the business that have
strong civic ties. These youth entrepreneurs will not only create
businesses which will fund projects aimed at eliminating poverty, they
will create businesses that attack the challenge of poverty directly. …..
On BusinessFightsPoverty , Kristina blogs about Top30Under30.
Read the full post at […]

9:28pm.
Monday.
April, 200+8.
We have finally activated this space!
Top30Under30 is out to recognize, reward and promote entrepreneurship among Under 30’s in Africa.Young Entrepreneurs are a Growth Engine for Emerging Economies. Young entrepreneurs are vital to economic prosperity. They carry the future of their nations on their shoulders. Accordingly, they need connections, training, mentorship, finance, business support and […]