A letter to fellow and aspiring entrepreneurs
Indigenous Funding Options for Nigerian Startups Shock statement: Apple, Facebook, and Amazon were once startups, but are now among the top 5 biggest business names in the world, bigger than Shell, Mobil, or General Motors. BlackBerry was also a startup but I won’t bother to tell you that story… How many people have a BlackBerry on them? A show of hands [no hands]…this paints the complete picture of where that company is. Startups “A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and it does not guarantee success,” says Neil Blumenthal, co-founder, and co-CEO of Warby Parker. “I will say a Startup is an idea, that if well incubated can harness funding from diverse sources and ultimately become a stable business.” According to Harvard’s Business School, a Startup has to answer these questions....
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