Justin Welsh 📸 Justin Welsh (self-described as ‘the diversified solopreneur, building his one-person business to $5M in revenue’) has just shared his eight best guesses on the creator economy headed into 2024:1. Top performers across the board will recognize an opportunity to make more money and have a much larger impact building their own brand & business than working for someone else. This will accelerate rapidly in 2024.2. At the same time, many people who have been spinning their wheels as creators for a few years (and failing) will give up and ditch social media altogether for mental health improvement.3.…
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Nigerian, Zed Etentuk (Founder, Zed Grills), has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest barbeque marathon by an individual. Etentuk grilled for 90 straight hours, beating the previous record held by Jan Greef who had achieved 80 hours of barbequing, in partnership with Char-Broil, LLC. Greef’s record took place in Columbus, Georgia (USA), in April 2014, and was dedicated to raising funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. As at the time of this report, Etentuk had hit the 94-hour mark.
Eleora Ogundare (Founder, Eleora Beauty) 📸 Eleorabeauty.com Eleora Ogundare founded Eleora Beauty Inc. in response to the health challenges she was faced with. Born with sickle cell anemia, Eleora went through an excruciating stem cell transplant, as well as chemotherapy, which caused her to lose her hair. Despite successful intervention for her illness, having to live with hair loss caused Eleora’s self-confidence to plummet. But she dug deep, and instead decided to turn her challenges into action that would benefit anyone suffering the same dilemma as she had. 🎥 @eleorabautyinc With the help of her mother, she created the Eleora Beauty,…
Mohamed Gawish (Founder & CEO, iSchool) iSchool, an Egyptian startup that teaches programming to children of elementary to high school age, has secured $4.5m in a funding round led by Capital Ventures Wave, an Irish venture capital firm. The round also included UK Capital OneStop, Webit Network Investment, and Capital Oraseya, the investment arm of Dubai’s Integrated Economic Zone Authority. Team iSchool Founder & CEO of iSchool, Mohamed Gawish, said in a Facebook post that the funding will enable iSchool expand into six new markets in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as to scale up its technology…
Ejiro Akpokodje (Founder, Drister) 📸 EjiroAkpokodje Ejiro Akpokodje is an international student in the UK who has first-hand experience of the challenges faced by migrants and foreign students when it comes to accessing credit. He says: “It’s a common hurdle: you arrive in a new country, eager to establish yourself, only to find that your lack of local credit history forms a barrier to essential financial services”. And Ejiro is actively tackling the problem. He has just announced the early stages of his startup Drister, whose objective is to provide a solution that ensures students from around the world as well…
Edith Chekwube Ezema (Plant Scientist and Organic Farmer) 📸Edith Ezema Africa has 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land, with the agriculture sector accounting for 35 per cent of the continent’s GDP, while employing more Africans than any other sector. So why does the continent spend a staggering US$78 billion of scarce foreign currency on food imports each year, with some countries such as Zimbabwe, Guinea and Sudan exceeding 100 percent of their annual foreign currency receipts? As countries across sub-Saharan Africa grapple with the challenges of sustaining high levels of economic growth, plunging commodity prices, and the effects of climate…
Wissal Ben Moussa (Founder, Sand to Green) Sand to Green Co-Founder & Chief Agricultural Officer, Wissal Ben Moussa, is well-known for her Moroccan startup which says it can transform a patch of desert into a sustainable and profitable plantation in just five years. Following an article about Wissal, published by The Africa Business Index, Gautier de Carcouët (Co-Founder & Chief Finance Officer) at Sand to Green) proudly corroborates: “Behind this portrait, Wissal is also: 👉 An extraordinary agronomic success, with the creation of a productive farm run using agroecology at the gateway to the desert, where nothing grows. 👉 dozens…
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For her: The Sweetheart Carryon The vintage-inspired Sweetheart Carryon cabin luggage will glide gracefully with you through your journey, while refining your look from door to door. Its crisp white and tan body opens to lift your spirits with a botanical print of foliage, flowers and birds. Demure on the outside, passionate on the inside. Price: $850 For him: The Rimowa Cabin Twist One of the most iconic luggage designs of all time is now available with a twist. The RIMOWA Original Cabin Twist in silver and brown is made from high-end anodised aluminium, accented with eye-catching colour-matched details, such…
Toyin Sanni (Founder & CEO, Emerging Africa Group) Despite global economic upheavals and statistics that show a nose-dive in funds available to startups in Africa, these Venture Capitalists, who announced their funds early in 2023, continue to be bullish about opportunities in the African tech sector: Source: Afridigest • Aduna Capital – Surayyah Ahmad Sani, Sanusi Ismaila• Afri-Venture Capital Company – Nasir El-Rufai• Black Ostrich Ventures – Ajani Windsor-Areago• Emerging Africa Group (Emerging Africa Technology Fund) – Toyin F Sanni and Toni Sanni• Plesion Capital – Ben Finlay