Mindpreneur

In light of the recent economic downturn, development strategies that create new jobs and support the growth of businesses are of greater need than ever. Microenterprises play a critical role in this quest as they account for a larger share of newly created jobs. However, only a fraction of these start-ups survive for more than two years or even develop into the high-growth firms.Amongst the biggest barriers to their sustained growth are lack of access to training, development support, and access to funding.    The “Youth Ignite” Project (under the Bank of Industry’s (BOI) Microenterprise Finance Program) seek to address these challenge by supporting 1 million entrepreneurs to create 5 million jobs over the next 5 years.Microenterprises will be provided training, single-digit interest loans and ongoing support during the course of the 5 years.  Entrepreneurs are required to do the either of following:    Consider ways people conduct busin...

An Entrepreneur is an individual who establishes and manages an enterprise. Some features of an entrepreneur are explained below;  Self-Confidence:  The entrepreneur believes in him/herself and not of fate. The entrepreneur sees obstacles or difficulties to achieving goals as challenges which must be faced squarely. The entrepreneur maintains a high level of emotional stability in the case of difficulties and the entrepreneur is not afraid of making decisions.  Risk Taking:  An entrepreneur must calculate the risk involved in the business being undertaking, assess situations and focus special attention on the risk involved. The entrepreneur takes reasonable risk which provide reasonable and challenging changes of success. He or she should not be afraid but take responsibility for the outcome of his or her decision.  Goal Orientation:   Entrepreneur m ust be persistent, persevering and determined. Every entrepreneur should set measurab...

9 Tips For Getting Started Business of Your Own Business is part and parcel of our lives and in one way or the other we run business. As an entrepreneur, it takes more than ordinary idea to turn your dream into reality. In other words, to turn your passion into commercial enterprise you have to get it more prepared. According to Rob Yeung, being an entrepreneur requires no special training once you have idea and determine to carry on the task.  The following are the 9 tips that require of you to get your financial dream into reality.     1. Develop Your Passion It is a great and strong emotion that pushes you on the track. It is an intense that gives you will and ability to do. So in line with this, it goes with finding what you have interest in. This will help boost your morale and will give you courage to do more as it gives you happiness. What am trying to say here is that, don't run a business you do not like or you didn't find it enthusiastic. Do ...

   The National Orthopaedic Hospital , Igbobi is located along the ever busy motorway (Ikorodu Road) in Lagos celebrating 71 years of achievements this year. With this, the institution as the first and the largest centre in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa for the management and rehabilitation of Orthpaedic, trauma and accident cases is recruiting to fill the following vacant positions below: 1. Senior Health Attendant Deadline: 14th December, 2016. 2. Motor Driver Deadline: 14th December, 2016. 3. Craftsman (Refg & Aircon) Deadline: 14th December, 2016. 4. Graduate Pharmacist Deadline: 11th January, 2017. 5. Craftsman (Masonry) Deadline: 14th December, 2016. 6. Craftsman (Carpentry) Deadline: 14th December, 2016. 7. Craftsman (Electrical) Deadline: 14th December, 2016. 8. Craftsman (Painting) Deadline: 14th December, 2016. 9. Craftsman (Mechanical) Deadline: 14th December, 2016. 10. Craftsman (Plumbing) Deadline: 14th December, 2016. 11. Graduate Physiother...

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) was launched by President of the United States Barack Obama as a signature effort to invest in the next generation of African leaders. The need to invest in grooming strong, results-oriented leaders comes out of the statistics: nearly 1 in 3 Africans are between the ages of 10 and 24, and approximately 60% of Africa’s total population is below the age of 35. Who will empower and lead these young Africans? Who will shape the future of business and entrepreneurship, civic leadership, and public management? In order to answer these questions, YALI promotes three models designed to identify and empower young leaders: the YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship, YALI Network and now the establishment of Regional Leadership Centers across Africa. Supporting this progress, the Accra Regional Leadership Centre (RLC), a part of President Obama’s Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI), will offer an innovative and game changing leadership train...

On January 1, 2017, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) will begin accepting applications for the third round of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The Programme is the Foundation’s 10-year, US$100 million commitment to training, mentoring and funding 10,000 African entrepreneurs.The application portal will be open until midnight (WAT), March 1, 2017. Entrepreneurs must complete the online application and selection is on a rolling basis, so early application is encouraged.The Programme is designed to identify entrepreneurs that have the potential to grow their businesses and collectively generate 1,000,000 new jobs, that can contribute at least $10 billion in additional revenues to the African economy., The success of 2015 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs reflects the impact of the Programme, including:1. Momar Mass-Taal (Agriculture, Gambia) turned his $5,000 seed capital into $1.2 million in revenue2. Bukhary Kibonajoro (Education & Training, Tanzania) used the mentorship and tr...