StartupSouth, an entrepreneurship ecosystem development project focused on the South-South and South-East region, has partnered Wish FM in Port Harcourt for a roundtable entrepreneurship education programme.
The business roundtable radio show is a 30-minute entrepreneurship education programme. Experts in micro, small and medium enterprises from across Nigeria will be invited weekly to discuss Nigeria’s entrepreneurship.
Tomi Davies president of ABAN and co-founder, Lagos Angel Network, will be teaching different aspects of starting and running a business on the show.
Part of the show will be used to showcase and promote businesses from the StartupSouth network in the forms of quick interviews.
Uche Aniche, convener, StartupSouth and founder Havilah &Hills, said the aim of the partnership is to ensure that people learn how to start and grow their businesses as well as be informed on available financing options.
Aniche stated that a dedicated portal will be provided for listeners to ask questions and get feedbacks.
He noted that the roundtable discussion will focus on issues and topics which include Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Validating Ideas, Team Building, Introduction to Selling, Introduction to Finance and Accounting Tools, Unit Economics and Access to Finance as well as Pitching, among others.
The show will initially run for a year and would be aired 9am daily.
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