The SME Boutique Women’s Exclusive Club which involves Biola Alabi, Tara Fela Durotoye, Stephanie Obi, Chika Uwazie, Co-Creation Hub amongst others has fixed August 6, 2016 as its application deadline for the Business accelerator competition - Scale UP!
If you aren’t here yet, here are some reasons why you should-
1. Girl Power:
SWEC is an exclusive club for Lagos based female entrepreneurs who are
seeking business growth and personal development opportunities. Through
its member-based group structure, SWEC is committed to providing key
opportunities for female entrepreneurs to succeed. That’s why we are
choosing 12 lucky members who join SWEC before the 6 th of August to
join our 4 month Business Plan Accelerator Competition- Scale UP! At the
end of the competition every woman selected will have a business plan
and strategy to scale up their businesses
2. Facilitated sessions with established business owners:
Established business owners such as Biola Alabi, Femi Longe, Tara Fela
Durotoye, Chika Uwazie, Stephanie Obi and a host of other influential
business leaders will provide intensive capacity building sessions in
areas of corporate governance, business strategy and design, marketing,
leading self, business integrity, finance and accounting for small
businesses and a host of other business development topics.
3. Opportunities for innovation, collaboration and creative thinking:
SWEC is an ecosystem for female entrepreneurs based in Lagos. We have
partnered with Co-Creation Hub-Nigeria’s first open living lab and
pre-incubation space designed to be a multi-functional, space for
entrepreneurs and investors to catalyze creative social tech ventures.
Members of SWEC and competitors will be able to take advantage of some
of the opportunities afforded by CC Hub.
4. Media exposure for your business:
SWEC has also partnered with Naija Start-ups, a leading start up
community in Nigeria. All participants in the Scale Up competition will
be part of the Naija Start-ups directory and receive media exposure on
their platform. In addition to this, SWEC has also partnered with
various media platforms such as BellaNaija, Guardian Woman, Exquisite
magazine, Genevieve Magazine Online, Pulse and Naija
Info, competition participants will receive free media exposure through
some of these platforms as well as through our social media networks
5. Sector Specific Mentors:
We know female entrepreneurs need one-on- one support and the advice of
established business owners within their sectors to expand their
networks and help them test their ideas. That’s why we are providing
one-on- one sector specific mentorship for all the participants who take
part in our Scale Up Competition.
6. Seed Financing for Winner:
We know financing can be a challenge for entrepreneurs. That’s why we
will be providing the winner of the Scale up competition with seed
financing to support their business development efforts. We will also
ensure that all participants who complete the entire programme have
investment ready business plans which will also them to access funding
from other sources.
Please apply if you meet the following criteria
1.
Women owned/co-founded business duly registered by the Nigerian
Corporate Affairs Commission. Please note that for co-owned businesses
only female founders will be eligible to participate in the capacity
building and mentoring portion of the programme.
2. Business must have been in operation for at least 6 months
3. All business sectors are welcome to apply.
The
SME Boutique Women’s Exclusive Club Business Accelerator Competition-
Scale UP application form takes less than 10 minutes to complete and can
be downloaded via this link: http://goo.gl/forms/SqUwzro59m5D0r1v1
Deadline for applications is 6 th of August however female entrepreneurs can apply to join SWEC at anytime
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