Emerging Opportunities and Exciting Business Lessons with John-Paul Iwuoha
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
John-Paul is a business transformation specialist who helps entrepreneurs start, grow, and turnaround businesses in Africa. In 2018, LinkedIn recognized him as a Top Voice on startups and entrepreneurship.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Africa is one of the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world.
2. Most successful businesses in Africa are working on the margin side. Africa is enormous in volume too. You can use both to maximize your profit.
3. Doing what you love to do will not get you to success. Along the way, you have to do something you do not like and want to do.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! J-L-D here with an audio master class on Africa. |
| 0:09.0 | Emerging opportunities and exciting business lessons. To drop these value bombs, I have brought |
| 0:15.5 | John Paul, you or her on the mic. He is a business transformation specialist who helps entrepreneurs |
| 0:22.2 | start grow and turn around businesses in Africa. In 2018, LinkedIn recognized him as a top voice on |
| 0:28.7 | startups and entrepreneurships. In Fire Nation, we'll be talking about why. Why you need to keep Africa on your radar, |
| 0:35.7 | the most interesting business opportunities in Africa right now and in the near term future. The biggest mistakes people make |
| 0:42.7 | when they try to do business in Africa and so much more when we get back from thinking our sponsors. |
| 0:48.7 | Grow your business with online courses by jumping into Thinkifix 5-Day course challenge today. Over 5 days, you'll hear from inspiring speakers, including myself, |
| 0:57.7 | who will walk you through the whole process so you'll know exactly where you're headed. Sign up for this free challenge today at Thinkifix.com-slashfire. |
| 1:04.7 | That's THINKIFIC-KI-FIC.com-slashfire. |
| 1:09.7 | Flippa is the world's leading marketplace to buy and sell digital real estate, including websites, e-commerce stores, |
| 1:15.7 | SaaS businesses, apps, and other online businesses. Get access to a free instant valuation plus insights on how to improve |
| 1:22.7 | sellability for your business at flippa.com-slashfire. |
| 1:27.7 | John Paul, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something interesting about yourself that most people don't know. |
| 1:36.7 | What's up Fire Nation? I'm almost on fire, not literally. I'm very excited to be here. It's been seven years since the very first time I listen to entrepreneur on fire and I've never really missed it. |
| 1:48.7 | I'm really excited to be here. One thing I have about me that most people don't know is I think this started at 10 years old. |
| 1:59.7 | That was the first time I came across the term ambidextrous. I got to find out that it's used to describe the ability to use both hands. |
| 2:09.7 | The ability to use both hands, the right and the left hand. It took me down a rabbit hole all these years because interestingly, I'm sure most people don't know. |
| 2:17.7 | Maybe just about 10% of the population is left handed and there are very many exciting, interesting people who are left handed. |
| 2:24.7 | But what actually struck me was the way left handed people have been treated over time. I'm naturally right handed. |
| 2:31.7 | I thought it would be cool to be able to use both hands because I was right in the bucket list of things I should be able to do by a certain age to be an interesting person. |
| 2:40.7 | I thought it would be nice to be able to use the two hands. But then it got me down this rabbit hole. I started to discover a couple of things. |
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