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Hey Tomiwa
Hope you are doing well
I’d like to share our latest blogpost with you. Please let me know what you think.
>>>10 tips to launch your startup faster
Richard Branson was headed to the Virgin Islands for a romantic interlude. But his flight got canceled. So, he chartered a private flight, despite his lack of money to pay for it. Here’s how he described what happened next:
“I picked up a small blackboard, wrote “Virgin Airlines. $29” on it and went over to the group of people who had been on the flight that was cancelled. I sold tickets for the rest of the seats on the plane, used their money to pay for the chartered plane and we all went to the Virgin Islands that night.”
Get the idea? Go ahead and sell something. Anything. 10 tips to launch your startup faster
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INTERESTING STUFF YOU SHOULD SEE
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Techcabal’s Radar AMA this month is happening today with Dave McClure, founder and Managing Partner of startup incubator and venture capital firm, 500 Startups. This session is a ramp-up towards the first Geeks on a Plane tour to Africa8 that’s taking place this month. If you are interested, add to your calendar here.
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PRODUCT AND SERVICE WE RAVE ABOUT
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Working from a restaurant or your own living room gets tiring very fast.
If you are interested in working from a space that connects you with like-minded individuals, you should take a look at Sinet Hub.
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WHAT WE FIND INTERESTING
Awesome articles we think you should read
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If you are selling insurance to pre-schoolers, you can’t simply open shop without the proper documentation and licenses – while claiming to disrupt the industry. Or if you are opening a digital bank (like Lydia in Nigeria), you need the right papers from the Central Bank. How to scale a business: 10 best practices.
Ideas are a dime a dozen, but success only comes through action. If building a successful business was just about having the best ideas, we’d all be living large right now. Having the idea is just the beginning of the journey. But there’s more to successful entrepreneurship. A lot more. Being a successful entrepreneur is not only about ideas.
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STARTUP TERM OF THE WEEK
Important terms you should know whilst running your startup
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Network Effect
During Network effect occurs when a product or a service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it.
This is the key dynamic behind many successful software-based companies. Understanding network effects not only helps build better products, but it helps build strong defense against competitors.
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TOOL OF THE WEEK
Software tools that will make your life easier
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Canva puts the power to make an engaging graphic design within anyone’s grasp.
It has hundreds of free pre-designed layouts, elements, fonts and image styles that make it possible to design everything from a great Twitter header to a flyer for your business. It’s completely free. There are some premiums up for sale, but you can always work around these.
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