Inspiring Words To Women Entrepreneurs
It's important to know why you are doing what
you are doing. I believe focus is very key. There's
a quote on my door at home that says "build a
fortress around your focus". It's very easy to get
distracted so be deliberate about guarding your
focus. Also you must keep learning. Once you
identify what you want to do, continue to hone
your skills so that you can remain relevant, and so
that you can grow. Hone your business skills, your
interpersonal skills, and also for creative, hone
your creative skills.
Abimbola Osunkunle is a Nigerian, with over 10
years experience as an entrepreneur. Cornucopia
can be reached by email:
[email protected]
ASY SOLAR
Co- Founder: Nthabiseng Mosia
Location: Sierra Leone
Business: Solar Energy
Easy Solar Ltd is a Sierra Leone based
social venture, that makes clean energy
affordable to those off-the-grid by offering
solar-powered devices on a “rent-to-own”
financing structure, enabled by embedded
Pay-As-You-Go technology and mobile
money. Sales and payments are tracked in
real-time on an online platform, allowing
for the creation of credit scores and remote
customer support. As a last mile distributor,
Easy Solar reaches customers underserved
by the grid through an extensive network
of community-based agents, making clean
energy both affordable and accessible.
What Is The Inspiration Behind Easy Solar?
Born in Ghana and raised in South Africa, I
am a Pan-African at heart who is passionate
about building homegrown solutions to
the continent’s most pressing development
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challenges. I was cognizant from a young
age about the centrality electricity has in
daily life as South Africa's national grid
would occasionally go down in my home,
leaving my family and I scrounging around
in the dark. While I’ve been fortunate enough
to enjoy mostly decent electricity services,
I've also become acutely aware, through
my travels around the continent, that many
Africans (in fact two-thirds) lack access to
electricity and are still using toxic, expensive achieve by switching to our products.
On the entry level product alone, a small
lantern, customers can expect to save $280
over the product’s lifetime, while a basic solar
home system with light, mobile and radio
charging capacity can offer lifetime savings
of more $900. Households can either reinvest
this income into more life-improving devices
or redirect it into investments in education,
improved nutrition or entrepreneurial
endeavors.
"While I’ve been fortunate
enough to enjoy mostly decent
electricity services, I've also
become acutely aware, through
my travels around the continent,
that many Africans (in fact two-
thirds) lack access to electricity
and are still using toxic, expensive
lighting alternatives." Inspiring Words To Women Entrepreneurs
Never apologize for wanting to seat at the
table and pursuing your dreams. Courage
and perseverance in entrepreneurship are
everything. It's not going to be easy and
that's not necessarily because you're a
woman, that's because entrepreneurship is
not for the fainthearted. Being a woman can
make it harder, and that means you have to
a doubly thick skin.
Nthabiseng Mosia is a Sierra Leone
entrepreneur, finding affordable clean solar
energy solutions for Africa through solar
technology. Easy Solar can be reached by
email; [email protected]
lighting alternatives. These influences
inspired me to pursue a Masters in Energy
Finance and Policy at Columbia University
in 2014, where I met my co-founders and
subsequently started the company.
What Makes Your Brand Unique From
Other Competing Brand?
Easy Solar’s value proposition is built on the
savings households and small businesses can
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