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Seun

There will be sleepless nights.

You’ll glance at the clock in your office, read 4:38 AM, and swear that the sun set only a half an hour ago.

You’ll lie in bed, tossing and turning, because you have no idea how you’re going to start bringing in revenue before you run out of runway.

You’ll promise yourself a good night of sleep before your investor pitch the next morning, but lo and behold, a mix of too much stress and too much caffeine keep you awake well into the wee hours of the morning.

There will be difficult conversations.

You’ll feel anxious, humiliated, and ashamed after a client chews you out for a half-hour on the phone. You will think it’s your fault. It probably will be.

You’ll walk into a negotiation and realize, too late, that you were woefully unprepared. You will pay for that lack of preparation. For months.

You’ll realize that despite how much you like him and despite that he has a family, you need to fire your favorite employee. It will hurt to do it. He will never see you the same way.

There will be challenges you think you can’t overcome.

You’ll stare at a to-do list that should take a month when all you’ve got is a week. It will feel like there’s no way to get through it.

You’ll feel sweat drip down your brow every time you look at your income and compare it to your expenses. You will not know what to do.

You’ll lose your last client when you’re down to your last dollar. It will feel like you’ve lost everything.

And at some point – it may be early in your career, it may be late, but it will happen – you’ll watch everything you’ve worked for crumble.

You’ll watch months or years of work fall apart.

You’ll watch your business fail.

You’ll watch your dream die.

It will be the hardest thing you ever go through.

But in that moment, you decide if you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur.

Either you will give up, move on, and find a real job.

Or you will keep going.

It’s that simple.

Because guess what: no matter how many puff pieces you read about the Elon Musk’s and Jeff Bezos’s of the world, that’s not what it takes to be an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship isn’t about the money, the highs, or the successes. It’s not about being on top of the world. That’s easy.

What sets successful entrepreneurs apart from the rest is their ability, their willingness, to keep going. Even when everything has been lost.

You want to know what it takes to become an entrepreneur? Ask yourself this:

When I’m at my lowest, when I lose everything, when I’m penniless, have no connections, have no prospects, have nothing –

Will I take the easier path? Will I find someone else’s dream to join? Will I say “well, I tried my best” – and be done with it?

Or will I keep going?

To become an entrepreneur, you don’t need a bunch of capital. You don’t need a massive network. You don’t need a high IQ. Hell, you don’t even need to be all that smart.

But you do need to do one thing.

When everything is lost and you see no way forward, you have to make the choice to keep going.

You must find a way.

And that, my friend, is a hard, hard thing to do.

But if you can do it, you have everything it takes to become an entrepreneur.

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I no even fit knee down for bill gates, i no go bend sef, i go just shake am normal.... Wetin dey make people behave like this, i no understand

Me: 51%
Oya Lie and Die

Ideas are worthless... What matters is execution

Mehn see Tesla keke o
Abi Kesla ^^

sureteeboy:
That's what happens when Nigerians wouldn't take anything serious for once. A video blogger will infringe on innocent interviewees' privacy and make mockery of them on social media all with the aim of expanding his subscribers

You need to watch the series "Who is America"

This life sef don tire person...

Another Congress....

sparkle6:
A 14year old programmer is quite a good thing, but software company jobs demands more than just knowing codes. Team work, oratory, ability to give out matured opinions, ability to interprete the software market are all included. So the kid needs to grow up to responsibilities which of course is a gradual life process.
Instance a kid with knowledge of backend and frontend dev and and 40yr old with only the knowledge of backend are up for a job. who do u think will get the job? the 40yr guy has more experience.

I actually said that because there is a 14 year old working for google. My emphasis is on the fact that it is more about what can do or have done rather than paper merit

CharlesJok3r:
@Ezechinwa, is it necessary\compulsory for one to have a B.SC in comp-sci before seeking for employment in most IT firm in lagos as a programmer.

Nobody gives a shi.t about certificate in programming, if you are good, you are good. Even a 14 years old boy can dust your as.s with better codes

You look 31 years madam

Support buhari syndrome (SBS)

Wetin be all tha craw craw for her leg

SolutionMee:
So good things like this can still come out from Nigeria

I doubt

Maybe the girl edited the About Us section of an open source script

Under the supervision of a full stack web developer

Lol... Ur bad belle no get part two.... I still doubt sha say those girls na coders....