Entrepreneurship can be a tough and long journey for many people. Some get lucky and succeed the first time. For any entrepreneur, the route from idea to established business is a long and winding one.If you want to startup a successful business, come learn how.
In this session, founders of promising Nigerian startups and businesses who started here in Lagos, scaled their business outside Lagos or attracted international investors will come share their experiences and provide insights on how you too can.
Hear Inspiring stories from entrepreneurs,the backstory of how they made it, the hustle, Challenges and some of the biggest lessons they have learned.
A social networking event for meeting great people passionate about entrepreneurship and small business development over a nice chilled drink! Launched in Paris – Drink Entrepreneurs is ramping up, now in 40 cities (Paris, London, Brussels etc ).
DrinkEnterpreneurs is an event which is designed to fill this identified void, by creating the most relaxed/informal environment for driven and motivated entrepreneurs after close of business of any given day, once a month, in order to enjoy meeting great people over drinks and music.
It aspires to support gender equal entrepreneurial ecosystems by empowering women to engage with entrepreneurship, whether as founders, funders or team members
Connecting women to inspiring role models and an opportunity to discuss what it takes to launch and scale a new business venture
For early stage startups, customer strategy can be daunting: there may be limited data into customer behavior, low customer understanding of untested products, and resource constraints due to competing priorities. However, customer strategy does not have to be time-consuming or academic. Customer strategy drives product-market fit early on and can be a key competitive advantage down the road. During this session, we’ll walk through a customer segmentation and lifetime value analysis as a way to develop your customer strategy. Our objective is to equip you with the tools to perform this yourself in the near future, and continuously.
We will also be announcing Accion Venture Lab’s Company Builder initiative which will recruit potential founders to utilize learning from this workshop as they identify, validate, and launch promising fintech business models serving lower income Nigerians
We will also be announcing Accion Venture Lab’s Company Builder initiative which will recruit potential founders to utilize learning from this workshop as they identify, validate, and launch promising fintech business models serving lower income Nigerians.
The global space sector has seen a massive resurgence over the past five years, that has repositioned the industry and galvanized global interest. From renewed thrust from public sector players like NASA, to private sector innovation from Space X and Blue Orbit, the increasing scientific and economic benefits to participating countries are undeniable. Newspace – the commercialization and inclusion of private sector actors in space endeavors – is largely responsible for this.
Thus, there has never been a better time for Africa’s space ambitions, and for Nigeria’s participation, STEM advancement, and entrepreneurial inclusion. The advent of lower-barriers-to-entry, due to technologies such as the CubeSat, and global bottom-up innovation programs, are spurring greater access to tools, expertise and funding mechanisms, required for success.
This illustrious panel includes space authorities and thought-leaders, leading the charge towards Nigeria’s future space activities. The talk will discuss the potential opportunities and where the sector must concentrate efforts and resources to best maximize gains. It will share ingredients required for success, as well as what success should look like. Key focus areas include:
Startup Showcase is a fun and easy way to discover interesting startups in Lagos and meetup with their founders and representatives. From Fintech startups to Fashion and Retail, come discover the latest Kid on the block.
Startups generally have limited resources and to succeed, the limited resources need to be properly optimised.
In this workshop styled session, you will learn about the various experiments across marketing channels and product development that offer the most efficient ways to grow your business.
Good press usually brings more inbound traffic to your business. However, quite often startup founders believe they require an expensive PR Firm or agency to help achieve this. This session provides information about how to get press coverage for your startup while working with a startup budget.
The retail and ecommerce industry in Africa is currently buzzing. Join an incredible line-up of guest presenters for a fast-paced talk on inspiration, insights, and lessons learned in the ever-changing world of innovation in retail and ecommerce landscape in Africa
If you’ve ever wondered what your valuation would be if an investor presents you a term sheet, then this event is for you. It is organised in collaboration with Dekar Edge, a fin-tech company primarily dedicated to preparing startups for capital investment, and would be facilitated by Tobi Fatimilehin (CFA) and Bisade Karunwi.
Topics to be covered include:
Maya Horgan Famodu is a Nigerian-American who is committed to promoting entrepreneurship in Sub-saharan Africa. She is an ecosystem architect, driving growth and development in sub-Saharan based startup ecosystems. She is also the founder of Ingressive, an investment group that backs top African Tech and leads corporate and venture capitalists to do business and successful navigate West Africa.
Amongst several ventures before starting Ingressive, Maya worked in private equity research, consulting with businesses looking to enter the West African market and supported global advancement initiatives with Steve Mariotti, Founder of Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship and brought companies including YCombinator, 500 startups, New Relic, USAID, GitHub and Techstars to Nigeria to meet local tech ecosystem, then invest in deals.
This meetup will also feature Jonah Ulebor, who will be speaking on "Becoming A Strategic Entrepreneur" in our Learning Curve Section.
Purchase tickets here: https://paystack.com/pay/Startupgrindlag-ticket
The Silicon Africa group has been around for about 5 years and provides an online community where leaders of the startup and tech ecosystem in Africa discuss and share Ideas.
However, from time to time, there is a need for an offline meeting. This event provides an opportunity for networking and discussion about the startup and tech ecosystem in Africa.
