The Bulletproof Entrepreneur™

Adekunbi starts her entrepreneurial journey at the tender age of 9 years , when she noticed that there were few quality greetings in the city where she attended boarding school compared to her hometown Lagos. She then smartly decides to buy the cards and sell them at school at a decent profit margin . Many years later as an undergraduate, she realized that with graduation fast approaching she did not have the necessary skills required to make her an effective employee. She then proceeds to pound the pavement in search of an internship opportunity. Upon encountering resistance and confusion from potential employers, she realizes that several companies were unaware of the power of internships.  Her epiphany coupled with several long months spent developing her business plan, she launches her company while still in school. Today, her company has helped train and place over 300 students in several small and medium scale companies as short term interns. With several interns being retained on a full-time basis post engagement. Through Sesewa's efforts the problem of rising youth unemployment (90% of college grads are jobless 1year after graduation) is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Her goal is to reach the students while their still in school, train them on the necessary soft skills required to keep their jobs and help them locate the best matched internship positions that will enable the young careerists become better professionals in and outside the workplace.

Victor starts his entrepreneurial journey by putting together computer systems in exchange for transportation fare. With little experience and the aide of a friend  he launches an indigenous technology company  to service the growing demands of the Nigerian market. However, cash flow problems, project scope creep and undisciplined operations leads him down the path for 7 years on a failed project. He eventually joins a new telecom company at the early stage of Nigeria's information technology boom and learns about the industry, finance, project management and other requisite skills.  He eventually relaunches his prior failed business and today operates a successful pan African technology company from Ghana.

Oo goes from launching two failed startups, one with Buffer App co-founder Joel Gascoigne to launching a SAAS business in Nigeria. Along the way he's been credited with almost single handedly building up the tech ecosystem in Lagos, Nigeria. Through grit, determination and old fashioned hustle he's building a new business that is changing the face of call center operations.

aith goes from unemployed internet marketer to rejecting two job offers to eventually starting her own perfumery business" LA FAME ACCOUTRE" . With little capital, poor packaging and lots of hustle she was able to drive sales by targeting wedding souvernirs as a primary distribution channel. She now helps mentor students interested in the perfumery business and is growing her business with several new distribution channels and products.