President George Weah of Liberia has conferred the award of “Distinguished Service Order of the Republic of Liberia” on some Army officers from Nigeria. According to Mr. Weah, the officers were instrumental in developing the Armed Forces of Liberia.

You can scale this to Police, Law and other disciplines. In Gambia, everyone hailed the Nigerian who crafted their Constitution which seemed really great during one of their transition phases, after a president who lost an election decided not to leave office.

Simply, across all dimensions, Nigerians do great things outside Nigeria but when at home, it seems …. You see ENDSARS and the pains from the Police, yet the UN keeps giving the Police awards for exemplary service around the world. We see the military sometimes as not playing fair (cases in point: Odi, Orlu, etc) and yet Liberia is honouring them. We have a Constitution which everyone agrees is not working, yet a Nigerian crafted a really good one outside.

In a southern African country, a Nigerian is responsible for the stability of their currency. I met this guy in Kenya a few years ago (he goes with a local name of this country even though he is from Abia state). He has kept that damn currency stable, even when Naira keeps obeying unnecessary gravity.

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President George Weah of Liberia has conferred award of “Distinguished Service Order of the Republic of Liberia” on some Nigerian Army senior officers at the nation’s 65th Armed Forces Celebration.

The Director, Army Public Relations Officer, Onyema Nwachukwu, a brigadier general, in a statement on Saturday, said the award was in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the growth and development of the Liberian Armed Forces.

Mr Nwachukwu said that the Liberian President made the presentation during the 65th Armed Forces of Liberia Day Celebration held on Friday at the Barclay Training Centre, Camp Johnson Road, Monrovia, Liberia.

He quoted President Weah as saying that the Liberian government gave the awards annually to individuals whose outstanding contribution had significantly impacted the growth and development of Liberia, its armed forces and humanity.

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Comment 1: The starting point is, if we deploy the same people doing all the exploits in other places here, will they be able to replicate same? It’s a difficult question to answer, because our terrain is different.

The second point is, can they get the level of support they get in those places here? A difficult question, because the level of distrust among various tribes is very dizzying, forget the noise and sophistry across social media, we can be a handful when special interests get into the mix.

As for writing a constitution, almost all the constitutions since 1960 had Ben Nwabueze’s fingerprints in them, how many legal luminaries out of continental Africa is finer than Nwabueze? So, give and take, we could easily get Africa’s finest to help us with workable constitution, but again, we are a handful…

The funny thing is that, all the people angling to lead Nigeria can’t really fix the land, because they are already compromised, that ethical blindness always weighs heavily when it comes to making a call that could transform a generation, meaning that they will chicken out.

Nigeria is not at the level where you tout ‘strong institutions’ as the solution, no, you need STRONG human, in character and moral excellence, not mean face.

Greetings. I sent an email to our members last night. If for any reason you did not receive it, please click, read and watch  the video. We apologize for the noisy session on Zoom yesterday. It was all my fault; I shielded myself from it as I spoke (my laptop was muted). I have made a new video, and merged with the portion where we recovered.

But interestingly, just making that mistake and releasing the Week 1  live session video to the public have resulted in a jump in registration! Possibly, some people have watched it and decided to join Tekedia Mini-MBA. So, there is a positive to this!

Indeed, we have picked a potential way to market our product: explore making all Week 1 public, including the courseware, cases, etc. The number of new registrations per 12 hours skyrocketed when we sent that apology email to global Tekedia Institute database.

Again, I apologize for the rowdy session last night.. We run many Zoom sessions here, and Eyitayo, Arinze and our team members have always delivered. But yesterday, I blew it. That will not repeat again.

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A key part of valuation is explaining your revenue model and potential financial growth, to bring in investors and partners to walk the journey with you. Part of this also includes your annual revenue at that point (even if you are not yet profitable). Now, what happens if you do not have revenue yet? How do you do a proper valuation of your business and present it in your pitch in the best way possible?

For pre-revenue startups, here are some things you can consider and maybe leverage when reaching a valuation for your business.

Leverage your management team

Even if you don’t have a product in the market yet, if you can get sufficient data on market trends that show your solution could be highly needed, then you have something. This is an indicator as to the market potential of your product or solution and can do a lot for you especially when you don’t have all the revenue numbers to crunch. Remember that investors do not only invest based on the milestones achieved but on the potential of what your product could become.

For instance, if you have sufficient data showing that there is a huge gap or challenge in a specific sector, that is costing them lots of money; and you also show how your product can solve that problem at a fee that they would be willing to pay, it will suffice in place of established revenue streams. This is more so for early-stage startups.

Realistic Financial projections

That you do not have revenue already should not be a reason to walk into any pitch without solid financial projections, preferably done by experts. If you have a solid solution and business, then experts should be able to come up with financial projections that can be both real and impressive. There is no need to exaggerate facts to impress investors. Keep in mind that those that are aligned with your business goals will not be afraid to put their money into it.

The point is that you can leverage on other things you have to make up for what you don’t. A proper combination of your management team, systems, realistic financial projections based on market trends, and so on, will do the trick for you. If you need to bend a little to accommodate that investor you want, without necessarily compromising your structure or overdiluting ownership, do it.

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