Apply for the Intel Growth Academy (a 3 Month Accelerator) program 2016 for Nigerian Tech Startups

Get mentored by seasoned industry experts, get connected to value chains of select multinationals and hack your product/service to achieve growth.

Growth Academy is a 3 month accelerator for new and existing tech startups in Lagos/Nigeria to grow their businesses into profitable and sustainable enterprises. Selected businesses get product innovation support and access to the value chains of big industry partners to rapidly scale their user base.

The program is in three major parts

Training & Mentoring

Growth Hacking

Market Linkages

Demo Day: The final part of the program will be dedicated to preparing for the pitch sessions. Each team will undergo ‘how to pitch’ training and demo pitch sessions with the CcHUB Incubation team. Demo day gives startups the opportunity to share their solutions with members of the public, the media and possible investors. The focus of Demo Day will be on showing how they have progressed in the 3 months and future growth potentials

 To Apply go Here

Eligibility

 10 amazing tech startups that fit the following criteria:

1 Have a minimum of 3 people on the team

2 Early stage startup (Has generated revenue)

3 Startups must be committed to rapidly scaling their solutions within the three (3) months of the program

Participating in the program gives you access to mentorship, hands-on business advisory support and connects you to prospective investors, customers and the media.

Mentoring Program

• Business skills are essential for every entrepreneur; ability to interact, negotiate, build relationships and make a profit
• One on One mentoring by seasoned experts in the techosystem
• Hands-on structured training to support product development cycles (scoping, research, usability engineering, development, testing & feedback loop etc) with Intel’s engineering team

Growth Hacking

• Product innovation to rapidly unlock customer segments
• Insights from marketing & sales gurus across industries
• CcHUB’s MxLAB team will also provide tailored user experience & usability testing support to each team

Go-to-Market Campaign

• Linkages with customers & suppliers of large organisations for direct value addition
• Support go-to-market strategies (advertising & digital marketing with proven brand management organizations) of each startup

• Application closes
  11:59pm, 18th February 2016

 To Apply go Here

Apply for the Kaduna Startup and Entrepreurship

The Kaduna start-up and entrepreneurship programme is a massive job creation campaigned initiated by a tripartite relationship, between the Kaduna state government, the Bank of Industry and Kaduna Business School.  The goal is to engage about 4,500 eligible young men and women resident in the state to pursue productive enterprise development initiatives.

The Programme is structured as a 10 + 2 week arrangement where qualified candidates go through a world-class programme equivalent to an Entrepreneurship Diploma plus access to finance.

Initially there is a 10 – week intensive training followed by a grand examination which leads to a 2 – week access to finance training and accessing the loan. Candidates are initially issued with an interim statement of result and subsequently will be issued with an ENTREPRENEURSHIP DIPLOMA, If they run the Business successfully for 18 Months.

All Interested and Eligible Applicants are to register online from KADSTEP website via the following link http://kadunastep.com/apply-now-2/ For more information on eligibility please check KADSTEP FAQ http://kadunastep.com/faq/

After Registration Applicants are to Apply for KADSTEP loan by putting down their Viable and Innovative Business Plan on KADSTEP website through the link that would be sent to every applicant after registration.

All Business Plans would by marked by a computerized business plan program and verified by KADSTEP consultants. Successfully candidates would receive an invitation to proceed to Kaduna Business School for Training.

A 10 – week intensive training followed by a grand examination would follow immediately after the selection process has ended for each batch.

Only candidates that attain 2.75 GPA and above after the 10 weeks training will be assigned mentors and allow to apply for the Bank of Industry loan.

Finally successful candidates would be given their loan to start-up.

Effects of Sharing Personal Secrets on Social Media

It baffles me how people put their secrets and private information on social media as if they will be awarded a prize.
It is equally disturbing that people freely write about their minutes by minutes /day to day activities with details and picture on social media. Information that should be known only to family members.
Personally I feel it is not right.
If you disagree, lets hear your reasons...

Raising Capital for a genuine Business

There are a lot of folks with fantastic Business Ideas but their challenge is always how to raise capital for their business.


Banks are not lending especially to startups except existing businesses.


Meanwhile, so many rich people have wayward children that squander their money while others are looking for capital as low as 20,000, 50,000.


What is the way forward?
Let's share.

Paypermail is it a scam?

A lot of people have been lamenting over lost payments, delayed payments, no payments, dubious transactions, etc and I begin to wonder it pay per mail a scam or is it that folks are not patient enough to make genuine income?
or could it be that they are too desperate to earn genuine income?


Let's talk folks.

Apply for Pat Utomi at 60 Business Plan Competition

The CVL (Centre for Values in Leadership) is receiving application s for Pat Utomi @60 Business Plan Competition organized in partnership with the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of Pan Atlantic University. The business plan competition is organized to commemorate the 60^th birthday anniversary of Pat Utomi- Founder/CEO of CVL.
The thrust of the competition include:
To encourage entrepreneurs to cultivate the culture of developing business plans as starting point of their business.
To reduce the challenges of failure in startup businesses.
Selection Criteria:
Application is open to both new and existing enterprises
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are highly favoured
The application of local content in terms of production input/personel for manufacturing or service businesses respectively will be major advantage.
The product/service must be environmentally friendly
The enterprise must have high growth potentials and employment opportunities.
The applicant must not be more than 35years.

• First Prize: N1,000,000
• Second Prize: N750,000
• Third Prize: N500,000

Winners will also have a unique opportunity to pitch their ideas to a group of highly placed distinguished personalities at a luncheon to make the celebration.
Click  here download the application form.
Application closes on 2.00pm on Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Completed application should be emailed to edc@pau.edu.ng
Winners will be announced on February 2, 2016 at CVL YouthEntrepreneurship and Leadership Submit taking place at Lagos Business School.
This is good money for many start-ups and existing entrepreneurs out there

Sterling Bank Next Big Business Idea Competition

The “Meet the Executive” campaign is a Social Media Initiative geared towards encouraging and supporting small businesses and budding entrepreneurs.
Our goal is to bring to the fore the creative, innovative and brilliant ideas housed by Nigerians with a focus on developing their ideas, giving them life and structure. With up to N6m worth of grants available, participants jostle to be short-listed among the final number that will defend their business plans/ideas before a select panel of top Bank executives, judges and venture capitalists.
To participate in this competition, visit http://sterlingoneworld.com/sterlingbank-meet-the-executives/


You will need to submit a business plan.



Deadline: February 10, 2016