Posts Tagged ‘startup’

In order to exceed the million-dollar mark in sales within the first 18 months, some customers will complicate the your growth forecast.

Complexity is often the enemy of execution. Are you making rookie founder mistakes or are you prioritizing important items essential for running an effective startup that can scale?

7 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the Wolf of Wall Street

One of the Speakers I enjoyed 2 years ago at the Cameroon Professional Society (CPS) annual convention at Houston was the Celestin Wandji. During his presentation, one of the quotes which caught my attention was “you can never achieve anything worthwhile, if you are not willing to step out of your comfort zone.”

I most certainly concur with this. All of us want to achieve success in our lives, but the problem is we also want to remain in our comfort

Ideas are worthless! Something that has always hold me back from starting is the fear of competition. You know, “someone who is better of, with more money, network, authority or support will steal my idea”. This went for some years till I met a mentor who told me that ideas are cheap and plentiful. The original idea pitch is usually non-essential to your business success. The real question is how well you execute it!

This remind Tony Hsieh, the CEO of

Do you agree or disagree?

If you go to any school, sit in the back of Finance 101 and listen the First lesson, you will hear the professor asking her students this question: What is the trick to successful investing? The answer is pretty clear: Diversification. When you are building an investment portfolio, a simple way to minimize risk on your investment is to properly diversify so that one failed investment don’t materially impact your wealth.

Ironically, most of us do exactly the opposite with our

When I started AfricanStarters.com, I had to explain to my loving wife why I was taking so long on the family time. Then I briefly explain that it was about a platform to support, nurture, motivate and inspire starters (entrepreneurs, womanpreneur, Sidepreneur, wantpreneur, solopreneur, africanpreneur.. and all others preneurs). Her initial understanding was that I was anticorporate and anti job.

If you are having the same understanding, please enable me to clarify. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Over the coming