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AGS Lightbox Session: Systems and Processes: How to Structure your Business to Scale

It's a new week and another unique learning experience with the AGS Lightbox Session.

This week, Tracy Diamonds will be educating us on 'Systems and Processes: How to Structure your Business to Scale'.

Either as an entrepreneur or an employee, we can all agree that working either no structure in place can have some very negative effects on the growth of a company or start-up.

For continuity and ease of workflow, it is pertinent to build workable processes and systems that will direct the flow of your company even without the presence of certain individuals.

This session is an absolute MUST if you plan on creating your own business or would like to help your company put in structures that will add to your own experience.

Tracy is the founder of Saint Tracy Enterprise and ran her business like every new entrepreneur without knowing exactly how things should be done, but knowing there was a need for her products.

However, the business began to grow and everything internally was out of place.

She had to pause and get the solution to organizing her Business, the knowledge which she will now pass along.

Tracy has run 2 successful businesses for over 10 years, attended courses at Lagos Business School, and also Tara Fela Durotoye master classes on structure,

Join us by 8 pm this Thursday to get some of these gems.

If you know anyone who will benefit from this session, they can join the AGSTribe by downloading the app and subscribing for either N5000 monthly or N50000 per annum.

Ramadan Mubarak to all Muslims.

Business

#Akwaaba – Twitter’s first Africa office will be in Ghana

The announcement was made through a tweet by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey where he thanked the president of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo. The tweet also included a link to a post on Twitter’s official blog written by Kayvon Beykpour, Product Lead at Twitter, and Uche Adegbite, Director, Product Management, Global Markets. Read more…

The Ramadan fasting

Muslims in Nigeria join their counterparts in the rest of the world today to begin the Ramadan fasting, at probably the most trying times that such a yearly ritual will ever take place. Read more…

Bitcoin And Crypto Braced For Near-$100 Billion Coinbase ‘Boom’ As Bitcoin Price Suddenly Soars

Bitcoin has shot toward its all-time high of almost $62,000 per bitcoin over the weekend as the cryptocurrency market gears up for Coinbase to go public. Read more…

China forces Jack Ma's Ant Group to restructure

China has forced a sweeping restructure on the Ant Group so the financial technology firm acts more like a bank. Read more…

Appzone raises $10m in Series A to extend its banking technology across Africa

Appzone, a Nigeria-based company that builds technology for banks, has raised $10m in a Series A round. Read more…

Banks earn N216 billion in E-banking income amidst threat from challenger banks

Nigerian banks raked in a sum of N216.52 billion from their e-business earnings in the year 2020. Read more…

DPR revokes 32 refinery licences, says Dangote plant 80% complete

Thirty-two refinery project licences issued to private investors in the country have become invalid in the past three years, according to the Department of Petroleum Resources. Read more…

Rwandan startup Ampersand raises $3.5M, largest-ever e-mobility investment in sub-Saharan Africa

Last week, Ampersand, Africa’s first electric motorcycle company, secured a $3.5 million investment from the Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF). Read more…

Households, businesses can apply for N50bn COVID-19 loans – CBN

The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that households and businesses affected by the COVID-19 can now apply for loans under its N50bn Targeted Credit Facility. Read more…

Microsoft makes $20bn bet on speech AI firm Nuance

Microsoft Corp plans to buy a tech firm known for helping to develop Apple's Siri speech recognition software in a deal valued at $19.7bn (£13.3bn). Read more…

Social

Daunte Wright shooting: Officer 'mistook gun for Taser'

The fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in the US city of Brooklyn Center in Minnesota was an accident, the police chief has said. Read more…

The Battle Lines At Philip’s Funeral Take Shape: Prince Harry, Now In Windsor, And Prince William Post Tributes To Their Grandfather

According to reports, Philip's two best-known grandsons posted tweets within a short time of each other on April 12 in proper protocol order, William first, Harry about a half-hour later.  Read more…

Macaulay Culkin welcomes 1st child with girlfriend Brenda Song

Culkin names his daughter after his late sister who died in car crash. Read more….

Normalize paying upcoming talents and treating them with respect - Debo Macaroni tells filmmakers

The comedian has shared his ordeal with film producers when he first joined the Nollywood industry. Read more…

AGS Quote of the Day

“You don’t know if you’ve built something of enduring value until you’re tested.”

Alfred Lin, Partner at Sequoia