Today’s business world is a fast-paced and intriguing one. Trends change faster than the speed of light and businesses need to play catch up to a lot of disruptive business innovations and technologies in order to stay on top of their industry game.
20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more and this is barely due to funding problems, but rather overlooked basics like
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•business planning
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•intensive market research and investigation
•location and marketing analysis
•expansion research and pitching for investment
In 2014, a report created by the GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) showed that sub-Saharan Africa had the highest number of people involved in the early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA), with Zambia and Nigeria leading the world rankings. Indeed, Africa is a virgin hub for business innovation, growth, and development, but a lot of entrepreneurs are unable to withstand the pressure of the business world because they venture into business with inadequate skills and knowledge on how the business world today really works.
At Grindstone Global, we are passionate about raising growth-minded entrepreneurs and high-performing employees in today’s rapidly changing business economy.We are not a fund or an incubator; we are a company that builds companies. We believe that great companies begin by training great entrepreneurs and as such, we are excited to give entrepreneurs in Africa and the world at large a chance to take our Mini-MBA courses at a tuition-free cost from now till the end of the year.
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Grindstone’s Mini-MBA courses give both current and aspiring entrepreneurs knowledge, key skills, and practices needed to make both themselves and their companies great. We have over 200+ alumni around the world emerging from our entrepreneurship course programs to build amazing businesses that continue to scale in the Africanbusiness world.
Our Mini-MBA course covers crucial business and entrepreneurship topics like
•Product Development
•Pitching your business for Investment
•Business Management and Leadershipand
•Getting Started In Business, a course for aspiring, seed, andearly-stage entrepreneurs.
As part of our goals to raise growth-minded entrepreneurs and business people in Africa and around the world, we have waived the tuition cost, originally valued at $250, to enable entrepreneurs to have access to this comprehensive and life-changing business development Mini-MBA. Entrepreneurs who sign-up and register for any of our courses between now and 30th November get free one-on-one advisory services from Bloop Global Consultancy.
Interested applicants can sign-up on www.grindstone.bloopglobal.com/courses.
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