Tolu Babalola

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Trouncing the Recession like an Upstart!

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 6:42 pm
This brilliant post was written by Donna Fenn, I highly encourage you to pick up her book Upstarts! Small business owners are typically an optimistic lot, even in the face of dismal economic conditio...
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Advise For New Entrepreneurs: Outsource!

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 11:43 pm
I read a book some years back while in college. At the time I couldn’t understand why my professor ( Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Chemical Engineering) would ask us to read it and wri...
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Why Having A Job Compliments Your Startup Dream

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 8:41 am
Image by mauricesvay via Flickr I have read many posts and heard alot of casts where people talk about quitting their day jobs or dropping off school to build their start-ups, that’s cool and a...
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Startups Must Network Early And Effectively

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 8:15 am
Image by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid via CrunchBase Every start-up shares the same primary objective: Get lots of people to join my service/use my product. It’s always the same regardless of ...
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Why Unemployed College Grads Should Channel Their Inner Entrepreneur

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 11:05 am
Last spring, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment among 18 to 25-year-olds was a staggering 16.1%. That was grim news for college grads, plenty of whom headed straight to grad sch...
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What we can all learn from failed startups

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 12:13 pm
These days it seems like startups are springing up everywhere every single day and it’s a bit tiresome really to take it all in. All of a sudden myriads of people want to start companies, they d...
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Social Media Lessons For Startups

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 12:55 am
Social Media and Web 2.0 has really swept across the internet community like wild fire and the effects it’s had are remarkable. When I decided to start building my start-up, I knew my main obsta...
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Your To-Do List Before Venturing into Business

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 11:41 am
Usually the beginning of an Entrepreneurial journey is the conception of the idea. It is what follows after that determines how successful your business will become however. Every business is unique i...
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StartUps: Start Marketing Months Before You Launch?

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Sep 9, 2009, 8:23 pm
Many young entrepreneurs are guilty of starting a Marketing campaign only after they have launched their product or their website has gone live. I have come to learn that it is a better idea starting ...
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A Good Mentor Is A Must For Every StartUp

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 11:22 am
At this stage of development, my start-up is starting to take shape and things are finally beginning to fall into place. A section of the site will contain videos that cannot be downloaded or embedded...
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Why Many Gen Y Startups Fail

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 12:35 pm
This is a post I have been working on for quite a few weeks now and only just concluded that it’s got enough information and ready to be shared. Each day I stumble on myriads of blog posts about how...
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Eleven Questions with Brazen Careerist Penelope Trunk

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 2:42 pm
Many people just know you as the awesome blogger and power woman behind Brazen Careerist, can you let us a little into the world of Miss Trunk? I like to think that each of us working on the same stu...
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Anatomy of a winning 'Elevator Pitch'

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 10:53 pm
I was once told that if I can’t explain my company and what it does in a sentence or two at most, then I have no idea what the company does. Ever since then I have tried to fit most of my ideas and ...
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Startup in Focus: IdealPitch

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 12:06 pm
I recently came across this website called IdealPitch and thought I needed to share with other entrepreneurs. I am personally not so big on VCs but if you’ve been involved in a start-up in the past,...
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The gen y entrepreneur's Achilles' heel

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 14, 2009, 4:13 pm
I was just thinking about the things that really fire up young entrepreneurs these days and decided to pen down a few. There are quite a few things that certainly warm my heart as a gen y entrepreneur...
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As a young entrepreneur, you must learn to sacrifice?

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 14, 2009, 3:43 am
I was debating whether to tweet this or make in into a blog post, but i decided that 140 characters won’t do justice to what I intend to share. I have only just started work on my latest start-u...
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Is it your business? then you are to blame.

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 11, 2009, 7:04 pm
Did you say that you meant well and it wasn’t your fault? That you couldn’t be in 10 places at the same time and that you had no clue it was happening in your company? I doubt people will accept t...
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The Timing Is Never Right

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 9, 2009, 12:49 pm
Is there really a perfect time for one to start a business? I ask myself that question a lot and always seemed to come up with the same answer. I have never had to explain my reasoning until yesterday...
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When is it time to put your startup dreams on hold?

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 4, 2009, 7:52 pm
One of my favorite quotes reads: “If you always wait for the perfect conditions, you will never get anything done”. I have always lived my life with these words at the back of my mind. I mean back...
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How to successfully bootstrap your startup

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 2, 2009, 4:43 pm
Image via Wikipedia Many entrepreneurs constantly face the battle for cashflow and a lot of times, money (the lack of it) is the reason why start-ups fail even before they’ve started. I have read m...
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Gen Y Start-up in focus: UltimateIntern

Tolu Babalola posted an article on - Aug 1, 2009, 10:50 am
When I first entered college, it wasn’t long before I heard the words “internship”. I would hear that word all throughout college and how important they were. My name is James and ...
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