We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Donald Eke. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Donald below.
Hi Donald, thanks for joining us today. What sort of legacy are you hoping to build. What do you think people will say about you after you are gone, what do you hope to be remembered for?
I am building a legacy like Nelson Mandela, I am at the forefront of Africa’s development and that’s what’s important to me. I grew up seeing a cultured and educated Africa, and I want to see that before i leave the earth.
Donald, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
My name is Donald Eke, I’m the Founder/Lead Consultant of Full Moon Africa Network. I started this company because I wanted to help global and African business owners, entrepreneurs, leaders, and investors, operating or interested in the African development market achieve their vision and our common goal to drive development that will serve the global market.
To do this, we offer consultation and financial products and services to meet their professional, organizational, and financial goals.
I am proud of being an African and I want my followers to know that I am committed to promoting sustainable development at the forefront, of global innovation.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
Starting this business was not easy for me, I made many wrong decisions and mistakes which almost cost the vision. Most decisions were made out of emotions and friendship, this is a very bad state for any business owner or leader to make decisions.
I invested in a friend’s business because I saw that his business was almost closed and he was depressed and sad, this is a bad shape to invest in any business owner or entrepreneur, all the contract agreement of that partnership was null & void and you know what that means for my business.
As an investor, it is bad to invest with your heart, you must invest with your head, critically asking questions, not just about the sector of the business, but also about the business owner’s character.
Resilience is the only thing that keeps me going and chasing the vision. I went back to the drawing board, and wrote down daily and weekly goals, as short-term goals, to keep me focused on the long-term goals.
Can you open up about how you funded your business?
We all know that funding a business as an entrepreneur is hard, especially when you have no friends and a good relationship. To fund my business I knew that I needed to leverage business partners and friends that trusted me enough to understand how much the business meant to me.
To get them to believe in the vision, I was able to leverage my business development & strategy skills to develop the business to a point that I called the foundational point. At this point, we have the primary questions answered, like the WHAT, and WHY, while the HOW, is a question that must be continuously asked and analyzed, regardless, you must develop it to the foundational point where other team members can stand on to deliver their task.
After developing the business model, I approached business partners, friends, and venture capitalists, who were willing to go on the journey with me, I shared the business idea with them and approached board members who invested in the business.
This way i had the funds to run operations and build the business
Contact Info:
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