Many of this generation were born at a time when banking meant waking up early enough to walk into a bank branch to access finance-related services. Those were the analogue days when one needed to be a salary earner in order to have access to bank services. Payments were done with
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Rapidly changing business environments are giving organisations around the world reason for concern, with Protivity revealing the top operational risks for managers and executives in 2020. With ever-present concerns over cyber threats, increasing market disruption, and the rise of artificial intelligence, the potential for unwelcome surprises vividly illustrate the reality that
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Most successful entrepreneurs have indeed created a new product, but most people who claim to be inventors have a hard time starting a business In my work with new startups, I often find people who believe that the terms “entrepreneur” and “inventor” are interchangeable. Yet I find a big difference between
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Google has announced a fund of $1 million for Google.org to support new and innovative ideas in the sphere of privacy, trust and safety in order to make online access across sub-Saharan Africa safer for families, and especially children. The ‘Be Internet Awesome programme’ is being launched in South Africa,
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Future Africa Fund, an angel fund for African startups is investing $50,000 into 20 startups each year to help them scale and serve Africa’s booming enterprise and consumer markets. Co-founded by Iyinoluwa Samuel Aboyeji, Nadayar Enegesi, Olabinjo Adeniran, and Adenike Sheriff, Future Africa started as an online community in deep conversation
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6 Ways To Build Strong Business Judgment. Succeeding in business is hard enough, so why make it harder with even occasional repugnant behaviour? Time and again, over my 30-year career, I have seen how people who are easy to work and rally around with have far more successful careers than curmudgeons. The
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Nigerian youths have been discovered to utilise mobile money services mostly on Internet subscription. GeoPoll, in a recent study to examine how African youths in six nations were engaging with financial services, noted that other top purchases with mobile money were airtime purchase, pay TV subscription and gambling. In the report entitled,
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Collaborative innovation definitely has its benefits. Whereas at first, it may seem intuitive, it is actually not so simple and straightforward to integrate your innovation practices with another company through collaboration. According to Akyuz and Gursoy, collaborative innovation can be defined as “the process of managing the interaction and collaboration of
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From two separate reports, we take a look at how some African countries compare in terms of their startup ecosystems and respective investment sizes. StartupBlink gathers data of registered startups, accelerators, and coworking spaces from its community and partners such as Crunchbase and SimilarWeb to track both momentum and trends within
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Earlier this month, Nigeria’s Finance Act 2019 was signed into law, drawing net positive commentary from key stakeholders. I believe the Finance Act is the best thing to happen for Nigerian startups in a long time. It is a bold attempt at fashioning fiscal policy while updating and clarifying problematic provisions
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