During the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of Americans faced layoffs, pay cuts and reduced hours, leading them to search for new, creative ways to make money. For some, that meant turning to a new, lucrative source of income: the side hustle. To start a side
A few days ago, I wrote, “Legends have it that most of the wealth displayed during the burial came through donations from men who Obi Cabana supported in their entrepreneurial journey. As I have written in Harvard Business Review, the Igbo Apprenticeship System remains a vehicle to accelerate wealth creation
Today, it’s never been easier to set up an online business, regardless of your professional background or previous entrepreneurial experience. With low start-up costs and instant access to a global audience, there is a lot to gain and not very much to lose. To put
More than 400 donated cows. $100,000 diamond pendant. 24-karat gold sunglasses by the House of Lunettes. Close to 70 private jets. Hundreds of the most expensive luxury cars. Wines costing N3.5 million served. A burial so affluent that the host quipped: the burial “would make
Jake Kenyon, founder of Kenyarn Credit: Jake Kenyon Sometimes it takes a major life event to push you in the right direction. Last April, I spent my 29th birthday battling Covid-19 in my bedroom. I had to take time off from my full-time job as
Your first step is to design your LinkedIn profile to attract high-quality leads, creating a profitable, inbound lead channel. By Kahl Orr, the founder of Rise, a digital agency that builds high-performing custom websites and apps for some of the fastest-growing brands. As a digital agency
The past year has undoubtedly demanded pivots and change in more ways than anyone could have imagined. Businesses were catapulted into endurance mode with a singular focus: survival. As new survival methods (and messaging) became the norm, entrepreneurs fell into a pattern of using their
Image Credits: Shogun E-commerce marketplaces continue to play a major role in how consumers buy goods online and how retailers show off and sell goods to those consumers, accounting globally for 47% of all e-commerce sales. But today, one of the startups that has built technology to
BaaS firm Synctera launched in December. The company’s vision is for fintechs to be able to use the platform to launch financial products like ledger and ACH. While some older BaaS platforms are wedded to a single partner bank, Synctera wants to offer fintechs options to work
An extremely new dimension of leadership for the industrialist. Yes, Abdul Samad Rabiu, the Chairman of BUA Cement Plc, has announced a share bonus gift, from his pool of shares, for employees of the company worth almost two billion Naira for their hardwork. And