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Dear Aspiring entrepreneur, In the past two weeks, we have been biting our teeth into the importance of having a side hustle. We looked at what lessons to learn from your current job and how your workplace can teach you important characteristics what would help build your business. If you are not learning what to do from your work place right now, you are learning what not to do. So see your current job as a learning center. This week let’s delve into identification of what to do. First determine what your side hustle will be. Will it be products or services? In identifying what to do, you must not be afraid to fail. The fear of failure can cripple even the greatest of minds. In determining your side hustle experiment a lot as this is also a journey to discovering the different aspects of yourself. Making up your mind about what the side hustle is constitute 40% of the walk. Your decision should be based on your area of strength. How do you know what you are good at? Check...

Dear aspiring entrepreneur, Thank you for joining us again this week. We will continue our gist about 'setting out' on the journey of entrepreneurship. We established last week that being in paid employment is not a curse or a trap. Even while you are there, there is always something to learn. One of the best places to learn diligence and corporate governance is in paid employment.  A friend of mine who is one of the most hardworking young people I know around started out his career in a fast food and he was running a part time program in Lagos. Combining both laid the foundation for his work ethics today. You may believe you are not working in a place related to what your dream business is but trust me, there is always something to learn. Even at that, continue doing your research on your future project and plan your strategies ahead.  The best time to plan for projects is when you are under no pressure of time. All your creativity flows. While you are learnin...

Dear aspiring entrepreneur, Happy New year to you all. Welcome to another year of fruitful and productive hustle. As we start out, I want you to answer these questions truthfully. Are you ready to set out as an entrepreneur and are you ready now? Being in paid employment and being on a salary is not a curse or enslavement. As a young man, you need to make a living for yourself while you work on your passion. Starting a business in Nigeria is not a walk in the park. Except your father is ote$ or uncle dangote, it is a road as rugged as the one to heaven. So setting out without any form of training, experience or support system will just turn you into a child of anger on social media. The easiest way to gain experience and be trained is to either work or volunteer as an intern with someone or an organisation. That way, you can learn and also get paid. Also, depending on where your passion lies, try to get a job in your area of interest. That will help you horn your skills. ...

Dear entrepreneur, We are excited to welcome into the New Year 2019. Thank you so much for being an integral part of our interactions as your feedbacks and comments during the past years has helped us grow substantially and has as well helped steer aspiring and existing businesses on the right course. It is our goal to this New Year to interact with over 1000 entrepreneurs and business owners, share insights and experiences that would provide them with customized information useful in setting up a structure to achieve their business goals for 2019, and also support their institutional growth. We strongly believe that the continuity of our relationship with you as a gist partner is ladened with multiple opportunities imperative to the success of our goals. Kindly subscribe to our blog www.hustlegist.blogspot .com and follow us on all social media platforms @hustlegist for our regular series and other information. Once again, thank you for the journey so far. We b...

Today, I want to address both the employer and the employed. Our success rises and falls largely on the team we work with. make no mistake,you cannot work in isolation. You need a team to achieve your goals, they are the backbone of how well your business would strive . Have you ever experienced soliciting the services of a technically competent Naija company and the leader or members of the team are have this 'we have arrived attitude/you mee d us we don't need you' body language? All because the company has some small change o! It is said that a team can not rise above its leadership. i beg you learn how to manage a team before you become a team leader . If you have to invest time and money to learn team building, please do. It will save you a lot of headache. I have watched people who had amazing and effective teams destroy those teams based on ridiculous and foolish leadership styles. They say one style is 'divide and rule'. Hmmn. Shebi when...