The African Enterprise Institute introduces its Entrepreneurship Support Program for entrepreneurs and young people living in selected qualified communities of Nigeria, Africa and the Caribbean. Our program provides support for community based entrepreneurs to expand beyond the community to offer their goods and services to markets across the nation, across the continent of Africa and subsequently across the World. We support young people accepted into our entrepreneurship support program with grants and scholarships for trainings and guidance in business startup, capital raising, business sustainability and executive management trainings. We also adopt the most promising entrepreneurs from each of our qualified communities into a more exclusive enterprise development program which includes direction, guidance and support for global market penetration and global capital access.

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Entrepreneurship Support Program Part 1

1. Entrepreneurship Strategy series (FREE) courses for selected people or entrepreneurs of a given community. 50 licenses for youths and women.

  • Get the youths selected to register, follow and like our social handles.
  • Identify a partner in the community with a computer if required ( cybercafés, business centers, exam centers.)
  • They can take the course online

2. Select 3 outstanding entrepreneurs, from those that took the course. Selected for further support, based on drive and ideas.

3. Offer the 3 entrepreneurs selected the following:
* StartUp Nigeria series
* Becoming a Champion study package.

Entrepreneurship Support Program Part 2

5. We can support a further number of entrepreneurs in the community into the second stage of ESP for :
a. Paring with our Super Mentors
b. Funding of their qualified eligible business ( especially if chosen from our listed options of “Community Enterprises” )
c. Market penetration
d. Community Economic Ecosystem parts 1, 2 3 ( new businesses set up and funded, community enterprises, micro merchants, community vendors etc.)

6. Funding and support in business is available for an additional 250 entrepreneurs not previously selected in the original 50. If they get certified and take the courses. However the additional 250 will need to be funded by Community philanthropists, companies operating in the community or Diaspora members of that community. We will work together to find the funding partners for this. Once they are trained then they are inducted into the ESP Community Economic Ecosystem part 3 which includes funding for businesses and enterprises in selected fields. The new 250 are funded for the ESP as a bundle N50k each.

7. Once new 250 have been selected and funding partners are secured working closely with the ANCHOR, then the same step process 1 to 6 will follow.

PROGRAMS

The Entrepreneurship Strategy series is a bundle of courses that provides students, young would-be entrepreneurs and professionals seeking a new career in entrepreneurship, a comprehensive in-depth understanding of the meaning of entrepreneurship, its history over millennia and how entrepreneurs are driven by passion to impact lives and solve problems. The ten module series also goes into the true meaning of strategy and how strategy can be designed to fit any entrepreneurial venture.

The course will guide you through the painstaking process of business startup in various high growth disruptive 21st century industries including but not limited to technology, medical fields, trade, construction, fashion, beauty, entertainment, real estate, energy, oil and gas, renewables etc.

Dr Nick Okoye, serial entrepreneur, in association with the African Enterprise Institute of Washington DC, United States of America, has designed a full-fledged “Becoming A Champion” study package for all young people, aspiring entrepreneurs and business executives seeking to operate at peak levels and to accomplish monumental achievements. The study package provides an opportunity to study and learn from Dr Okoye’s in-depth experiences and expertise in enterprise growth and development, project design and funding as well as national development strategy. The study package constitutes material for developing the right mindset for leadership and entrepreneurship, it includes daily, monthly and annual tactics for success, personal improvement strategies for professional and business people as well as national development frameworks, for communities, states, regions and Nations, which are required for building an entrepreneurial nation of successful entrepreneurs. In addition, Dr Okoye shares the sophisticated strategies he and his team adopted to grow several enterprises he has led or supported to become mega business enterprises and conglomerates today.

The Enterprise Institute is constantly expanding its collation of super mentors, to narrow the gap between the most wealthy, most successful people of African descent and the inspiring young people of African descent who need, a hand up, and not, a hand out. Our young people need access to opportunities to explore their talents, create their own wealth and we make that happen by giving them access to global skills which guarantee them opportunities of the 21st century.

Nothing seems to be more important for the future of work and future of opportunities than that ability to gain 21st century skills that are in HOT demand. In fact, many corporations are skipping the requirements for College and University degrees and opting instead for certifications in specific skills that are required and that are in demand nationally, continently and globally.