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Strategy Technology and SME’s

Getting Ready for Failure/ Rethinking Failure

Edel IT Consulting

BarCamp Africa UK Founder

Board Advisor : Chillax and Egotickets

Why am I here ?

EthelCofie.com@MissEDCofie

Lean Startup Mentor

Business Strategy Consultant

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Alright!!! Lets Talk about Failure

AGENDA

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My Passion

Supporting businesses’ in their efforts to provide customers with great service/product, provide excellent customer service and make profit by providing excellent and appropriate technology solutions.

My experience spans a variety of countries including UK, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone and worked on projects like the Bill and Melinda Gates Funded Mobile Technology for Health and Ford Foundation funded election-monitoring project for Nigerian Elections.

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Albert Einstein

The failure: His teachers called him “slow” and “mentally handicapped”. He also didn’t speak until he turned 4 and didn’t read until he was 7. (That must have been extremely damaging to the soul as a kid).

The success: He won the Nobel prize in physics.

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Colonel Hardland David Sanders

The failure: Despite having the now-famous fried chicken recipe, he was rejected 1008 times before a restaurant took it in. 1008! Oh and he also went to all 1009 restaurants on his own by driving his van and sleeping in it.The success: You see it yourself today. KFC is a worldwide brand in the fast food industry and the finger-licking good chicken is here to stay.

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J.K. Rowling

The failure: At a point in her a life Rowling was nearly penniless, depressed, divorced and had to raise her child on her own. She was also on welfare back then while writing up the manuscript of Harry Potter. Adding to that, 12 publishers rejected the manuscript.Success: She created Harry Potter, a global brand estimated to be worth $15 billion today

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Videos

http://youtu.be/A2Df3eMSWYM

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http://youtu.be/2O46_AH9z60

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