“As an entrepreneur, there is the tendency to think that money is what gets things done,” said Olumide Adeleye, the founder of the Twim Academy in Ibadan, Nigeria, a school of media and creative arts. He has a different take on what’s required when starting a business—he launched his as a first-year college student, with $10.
“[The key to success] is just being creative,” he said. “If I had a lot of money, perhaps I would have wasted it on publicity. But by having just $10—I didn’t have more than that—I had to force myself to think of other ways of reaching my audience.”
As a freshman at the University of Agriculture in Abeokuta, Nigeria, Adeleye realized that “everybody has a need.” His peers were desperate to improve their IT and computer skills, including website design, but weren’t sure how to do so. The university couldn’t satisfy their requests, he said, so he decided to launch his own training program. Everyone he talked to was excited to participate.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2015/01/09/how-to-launch-a-company-with-10/
