15 Hard Lessons from 15 Years of Building in Nigeria
This is not a motivational book, because motivation fades by Monday morning. These are the fifteen things that cost me fifteen years to learn, written down so they’ll cost you an afternoon.
The Lessons You Cannot Google
Most people building in Nigeria learn the same lessons, and nearly all of them learn each one the expensive way, after the partner has gone, after the money has gone, after the year has gone.
I learnt mine building websites as a teenager, running agencies, growing communities across Africa, and marketing music that’s now past a billion streams, with no investors, no shortcuts and no blueprint.
The book is those fifteen lessons in the order I wish somebody had handed them to me, so you can read in an afternoon what took me fifteen years to live.
These are the hard lessons. The ones nobody tells you when you are starting. The ones that only land when you have lived them.From the back cover
What The Fifteen Were Tested Against
None of it is theory, because every lesson in the book was paid for inside these numbers, and the festival side of the work has picked up two World Culinary Awards along the way.
What Is Inside
Five Of The Fifteen
The first five, in the order they’re meant to be read, because the order is the point and the first one is the hardest.
Who It Is For
The Details
- 15 Hard Lessons from 15 Years of Building in Nigeria
- Kevin Eze, known as Xclusive Pikin
- Digital book, PDF
- 45 pages, fifteen lessons and a bonus
- English
- 978-978-68-8772-2
- Free during the launch window
- Selar
Questions
Is the book really free?
Yes, for the launch window, and you get it on Selar at no cost, because when the window closes it goes on sale, so the free edition is the one to take now.
What format is it?
A 45-page digital book, delivered as a PDF you can read on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, with a few pages that are meant to be written in.
Who is it for?
Anyone building something in Nigeria, or somewhere that works the way Nigeria works, where the playbook you read about was written for another market. Founders, artists, creatives and the people who run things for them.
Is this a motivational book?
No, because motivation fades by Monday morning, and these are the lessons that cost years to learn, written down plainly so they cost you an afternoon instead.
Will it be on Amazon?
An Amazon edition is coming, and until it lands the Selar edition is the one available, and it’s free.
The Lessons Will Find You Either Way
The only question is whether you pay for them with fifteen years or with an afternoon, and while the launch window is open, the afternoon is free.