Strive Learning is closing early-stage founders business skills gaps and helping them build thriving startups in Africa.
Current Status
The solution is currently validating for prototype build with impressive expression of interests from corporate and government agencies. The virtual masterclass learning is planned for take off in January 2025. And the textbook written for African students in universities and colleges is planned for publishing by January 2025. Afterwards, the mobile learning application is planned for launch by March/April 2025.
Market
Strive Learning Ltd targets Africa's 27.6 million undergraduate students, 70 million failing early-stage Startups, and over 35 million graduates without jobs for the past 5 years. Government Ministries and Development Agencies, Corporate businesses funding Entrepreneurship skills training and Early-stage Startups. The e-learning market is valued at $7.2 Billion in 2020 and projected to grow at 11.5% CAGR to $13.3 Billion in 5 years to 2028. The e-business learning market is projected to grow to $17.6 Billion by 2029.
Problem or Opportunity
SOLVE™ business learning solution provides clarity to business coaching and learning to make building a startup smart, methodical, motivating, and fun for founders to close early-stage founders skill gaps driving over 80% failure rate of startups within 3 years of business launch.
Solution (product or service)
Our business learning solution SOLVE is designed on its name acronym to develop smart business skills modules that clarifies the critical skills set and processes of building and growing startups successfully just as the school mathematics equation formula BODMAS or PEMDAS helps average students in high school solve Mathematics successfully.
SOLVE brings structure, methodology, and clarity to business learning and make building and growing a startup smart, memorable, motivating, and fun for early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs to build thriving startups.
Competitors
Some of the key players direct competitors are: Coursera Tekedia Udemy Global startup accelerator programs Including these Best Business Schools for Entrepreneurship e-Learning in Africa 1. Lagos Business School (LBS), Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria 2. Gordon Institute of Business Science, Pretoria, South Africa. 3. Strathmore Business School – Strathmore University, Kenya 4. Henley Business School, South Africa 5. American University School of Business, Cairo, Egypt 6. ESCA Ecole de Management, Morocco 7. Graduate School of Business, South Africa 8. University of Stellenbosch, South Africa 9. Wits Business School, South Africa. 10. Milipark Business School, South Africa 11.Akweshi Entrepreneurship University, Ghana.
These competitor existing learning solution lack coaching/learning presentation structure, coherence, and clarity thereby limiting students and founders cognition, competence, confidence, and capacity to build and grow startups successfully and sustainably.
Advantages or differentiators
SOLVE learning modules is designed on disruptive learning presentation that brings structure, methodology, and clarity to building and growing startups successfully and helping early-stage founders to build smart startups generating recurring sales right from business launch. This is the value proposition of SOLVE business learning solution which is lacking among the competition.
Finance
Strive Learning Ltd revenue stream are as follows: (1). Virtual masterclass learning; (2). Business consultancy/Advisory services; (3). E-book publishing/Mobile learning applications download. Strive Learning operating cost structure is $3.7 per unit production for both retail and corporate wholesale accounts.
Business model
Our business model is subscription based for B2C, B2B, and B2G. Our channel comprises social media streaming sales and delivery, youtube and website.
Money will be spent on
Office renting, building SOLVE mobile learning app, marketing and business development expenses.
Strive Learning Ltd anticipates and plans for business / operating risks such as:
1. New disruptive innovation technology in learning driven by Artificial Intelligence.
2. Poor sales.
3. High operating costs.
4. Ineffective strategy execution.
5. Lack of innovation in coaching / learning offering and poor client service.
6. Political crisis resulting to social insecurity.
7. Failure of Internet delivery infrastructure.
8. Inefficient management and staff team
9. Poor staff reward system.
10. Poor fit between strategy plans, objectives, goals, and execution
Incubation/Acceleration programs accomplishment
Misk Startup school Acceleration for African Entrepreneurs. .