World Bank unveils $16 billion Africa Climate Business Plan

The World Bank Group today unveiled a new plan that calls for $16 billion in funding to help African people and countries adapt to climate change and build up the continent's resilience to climate shocks.

7 reasons your business may be stagnant

Business stagnancy is a negative that every enterprise builder should prevent or conquer. It is undesirable and could be energy sapping. When a fellow is running round in circles without progress, life experience becomes brutish.

A few possible causes of stagnation and suggestions on how to guide against them would suffice at this juncture.

Reforms in emerging economies ease start-up

Emerging economies quickened the pace of their business reforms during the last 12 months to make it easier for local businesses to start and operate, says the World Bank Group's annual ease of doing business measurement.

Doing Business 2016: Measuring Regulatory Quality and Efficiency finds that 85 developing economies implemented 169 business reforms during the past year, compared with 154 reforms the previous year. High-income economies carried out an additional 62 reforms, bringing the total for the past year to 231 reforms in 122 economies around the world.

Take charge

It is not old news that poverty is vicious. However, there are principles; though not new, but nonetheless can lead to achievement of wealth if applied right. These principles need to be reinforced and re-examined constantly as there is a thin line between success and failure, and when you stop to increase, you start to decrease.

Snail farming

Snail meat has been severally affirmed to be a most safe and nutritious delicacy. In these days of increased coronary complications and other health implications, snail producers are certain to hit it big because more people are shunning beef or red meat.

6 Reasons Why Entrepreneurship is Cool

The earth was originally designed to function on entrepreneurship. If you trace the history of our world to its foundation, folks then were all doing their thing. They were farmers, shepherds, hunters and the likes. Becoming employees is a later phenomenon that exploded after the industrial revolution (1760-1850).  

US Raise $1 Billion for Entrepreneurs

The United States of America has raised over $1 billion new investment as start up capital for upcoming entrepreneurs around the world. 

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (2nd R) take part in a roundtable with young businesspeople at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the United Nations compound in Nairobi, Kenya July 25, 2015. Photo/REUTERS - See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/what-next-after-global-entrepreneurship-summit#sthash.XphbLeAr.dpuf

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (2nd R) take part in a roundtable with young businesspeople at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the United Nations compound in Nairobi, Kenya July 25, 2015. Photo/REUTERS - See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/what-next-after-global-entrepreneurship-summit#sthash.XphbLeAr.dpuf

President Barak Obama gave this revelation at the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit –-

40 Low Start-up Businesses That Can Make You Rich

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Bed Bugs Invade Nigerian Varsity -Unilag Hostel -Opportunity for entrepreneurs to build and operate private hostels

Students of one of Nigeria’s flagship citadel of learning, the University of Lagos -Unilag are currently under attack. The invaders, though not human are nonetheless, formidable. Bed bugs have taken over more than half of the rooms in the Biobaku Hall –a male hostel of the school.

Sample Business Plan For Cleaning Business

  

Executive Summary

The commercial cleaning subsector of the Nigerian economy is still growing. We believe that with the growth of the service outsourcing model in the country and with few well organized players in this important sphere, XYZ Cleaning Services is well poised to add real value to the business in a way that would create a win-win possibility for the customers, the environment and our shareholders as well as other stakeholders.

Commodity Prices to Remain Weak Despite Slight Rebound in Oil Price

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2015 –The World Bank is nudging up its 2015 forecast for crude oil prices from $53 in April to $57 per barrel after oil prices rose 17 percent in the Apr-Jun quarter, according to the Bank’s latest Commodity Markets Outlook, a quarterly update on the state of the international commodity markets.

7 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs

7 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs

Habits, your conduct or what you do on a regular basis ultimately defines a character. Character on the other hand to a large extent, determines the result an individual would command in given contexts.

Some have argued that entrepreneurship is a calling, while others insist the practitioners require a special set of attributes. The following are traits common in successful entrepreneurs.    

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How to Manage Multiple Businesses

Focus used to be a key word in the enterprise field in about a decade or two ago. Now the norm is multiple streams of income; even a book with the same title was written by Robert G Allen. Take a look at the great entrepreneurs around us; they all own and manage multiple businesses –Sir Richard Branson with over 400 concerns, Warren Buffet, Aliko Dangote –the richest man in Africa, and you may please include your own additions.

10 Things That Can Make Entrepreneurs Happy

A wise person has submitted that "Life is too short to be lived in a boring and joyless form." I totally agree. Probably more than other people, entrepreneurs need a bigger dose of happiness because of the tedious nature of the process in creating wealth and employment for their societies.

Although happiness is by choice, some conditions, to my mind would create germane atmosphere necessary for enterprise creators and managers to be happy and by extension, function maximally.  They are listed below in no particular order: 

How to Conquer Cash Flow Problem

Cash flow is king in any business. Minus it, the enterprise growth would be stunted, and fold-up might be inevitable. For these reasons and more, the importance of proactive and strategic management of cash flow to a business entity cannot be over emphasised.

So how then can business owners surmount the challenge of no or insufficient cash flow?