If you work for an organization and your excuse your failure to start the business you have in mind for so long, to the limited time your job avail you, you have been proven wrong. According to the founder of sofreshng, Olagoke Balogun, you can actually leverage on your 9-5 job to build your business.
Balogun, who gave insight, on his Twitter handle, on how we, as employees can start and maintain our businesses. He basically made use of his business’s success story as a valid example.
Balogun, who noted that he started building one of Africa’s biggest healthy food chain while he was still an employee of an organization, he gave out advice as to how employees can utilize the financial and intellectual opportunity their current film affords them.
Read His Twitter thread
Your salary is the bribe to forget your dreams. FALSE!
My job takes all my time, I have to quit to pursue my dream. FALSE!Listen, one of the best things that can happen to an aspiring entrepreneur is working in a structured coy. Let me share a few tips on transitioning
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— Olagoke Balogun (@gkbalogs) February 4, 2019
1. START BEFORE YOU QUIT!
Please don't let your village people win!
Test out that idea, get a proof of concept, acquire paying customers, make sure you have good traction and if possible achieve or have a clear path to Break-Even before considering quitting.— Olagoke Balogun (@gkbalogs) February 4, 2019
2. MAXIMIZE YOUR TIME!
Yes, you spend 40 hours weekly on your job and if you live in Lagos add another 10 – 15 hours traffic time.
However, you have 168 hours in a week, your job takes up about 50, your sleep takes up 50, and you are still left with 68 hours to build your dream.— Olagoke Balogun (@gkbalogs) February 4, 2019
Stop whining about how "little time" you have, and start asking yourself, "How can I manage the free time I have better?"
*It's unethical to spend time on your personal business at the detriment of your employer*
— Olagoke Balogun (@gkbalogs) February 4, 2019
Stop whining about how "little time" you have, and start asking yourself, "How can I manage the free time I have better?"
*It's unethical to spend time on your personal business at the detriment of your employer*
— Olagoke Balogun (@gkbalogs) February 4, 2019
3. OUTSOURCE OR PARTNER
Starting out with a super co-founder @bimsofresh made all the difference for So Fresh, my best #business decision ever!So ask yourself
What can you do that no one else can do? Consider outsourcing or finding a partner to do the rest.— Olagoke Balogun (@gkbalogs) February 4, 2019
4. SEE YOUR JOB AS A BLESSING
Your current paycheck is probably where you'll get your first source of funding to birth that dream, cherish it.I am forever grateful for my paycheck, it gave me room to experiment and take risk earlier on.
SAVE if you are serious about starting
— Olagoke Balogun (@gkbalogs) February 4, 2019
5. STAY COMMITTED
I poured myself into work while I worked 9 – 5 (now I work 9 – 9?) and it's amazing how much I learnt about running well structured organisations.— Olagoke Balogun (@gkbalogs) February 4, 2019
I started @sofreshng 6 years before I quit my last job, after growing it to a chain of 3 stores from a small corner shop in ogba. Today, So Fresh has 8 stores across Lagos & Abuja with over 100 staff and still groiwng. pic.twitter.com/nHJPaEbnp1
— Olagoke Balogun (@gkbalogs) February 4, 2019
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