Strive Learning is closing early-stage founders business skills gaps and driving Startup success in Africa.
Current Status
SOLVE business learning solution is prototype currently being tested for market validation. The solution has been assessed as good and meets the recently reviewed Entrepreneurship business learning modules by the National higher education curriculum regulatory agency.
Solution prototype built with few Customer retail sales recorded and to go to market launching a virtual business learning masterclass and hiring 8 Business Development Specialists recruited to drive corporate sales across the states and regions in Nigeria.
Market
Strive Learning Ltd targets Africa's 17.6 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 $2.2 Billion in 2020 and projected to grow at 11.5% CAGR to $3.3 Billion in 5 years to 2026. The e-business learning market is projected at $1.6 Billion by 2026.
Problem or Opportunity
We are closing Entrepreneurship Business Skill Gaps of early-stage founders driving high failure of Startups resulting to increasing rate of youth unemployment, poverty and crime . Most of African Universities and Colleges Entrepreneurship business learning curriculum does not equip young graduates with important skills to Startup and succeed in business.
Solution (product or service)
Our business learning solution SOLVE is designed smart business skills modules that provide structure, coherence, and clarity in coaching presentation to help young graduates, professional sole-preneurs - doctors, pharmacists, educators, lawyers, tech builders, and small business owners - technicians, plumbers, electricians, bakers, etc.
Our solution SOLVE help the target customer learn smart and build better thriving ventures from ideas to growth scaling.
Competitors
Some of the key players direct competitors are: Coursera Tekedia Udemy Startup Accelerator prorams 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
Our solution is designed on disruptive new business modules design and learning presentation developed on letters to produce an exciting acronym. The original acronym EVLOS is revered to produce the name SOLVE which represents the learning modules of practical skills sets and tasks required to build scalable solutions and thriving companies from Ideation to Go to Market. Each letter of the acronym represent a structured, methodical and coherent startup build process to growth scaling processes which makes learning smart, structured, methodical, motivating, and motivating for founders to build thriving startups. This is SOLVE value proposition.
Finance
Strive Learning Ltd has three revenue streams as follows: (1). Online learning (A) Individual / Retail client - $50 per trainee subscription. (B). Corporate / Business Wholesale - $100 per trainee subscription. (C). Curriculum design consultancy, (D). Ebook publishing. Our cost structure is $6.7 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. .