BEATING THE ODDS.

 Upclose with Enoch Kofi Boateng.

Nana Boateng, Entrepreneur


It has almost become a cliché among university graduates complaining about unemployment in Ghana. But that is not the case with Enoch Kofi Boateng (Nana Boateng), a member of  code57 Entrepreneurs and CEO of NaBoat Group of Companies. We were privileged to interview him on our Entrepreneurship Wing Online Platform and we discovered interesting revelations about his journey as an Entrepreneur. Have a good read.


P.K: Kindly tell us about who you are and what you do.....

NB: Basically, I am Enoch Kofi Boateng that's my real name...Along the line I switched to Nana Boateng that makes me feel like an African and a King😅

Nana Boateng is a Private Tutor with a demonstrated history of working in the teaching field. Holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Banking and Finance, from the University of Professional Studies. Currently the CEO of Naboat Groupe, Operations manager of TrainGh and Head of strategic planning for Vintage Africa.

P.K: Tell us about NaBoat Groupe and what it entails

NB: Naboat Groupe is a conglomerate of 5 business focusing on Agriculture, Real Estate, Technology, Fashion and Philanthropy.

The subsidiaries include Naboat Apparels,Naboat Farms Naboat School of Technology,Naboat City and Naboat Charity foundation.

P.K: Awesome ! Are all of these in operation .? And if yes how do u manage these subsidiaries ?

NB: Nope,we are laying the bricks one at a time...At the moment we have started Naboat Apparels and NabCreatives...As time goes on, NabCreatives will be coined under Naboat School of technology.

P.K: When did you start Naboat Apparels and Nabcreatives ?

NB: November 2018.

P.K: Tell us a bit more about NaBoat Apparels  and Nabcreatives ...and why u started them.

NB: NabCreatives....God bless Nana Twum, one great friend of mine. he introduced Photoshop to me and how is making money from simple designs. I developed interest for it and one thing that kept me moving was consistency.. I became so much interested and consistent to the extent that i don't feel comfortable if I haven't design a day. I kept learning new stuffs and practicing new things always. 

Note: I was just introduced to the software but I made YouTube my tutor. I haven't regretted learning the skill of graphic design.

NaBoat Apparels.....the story behind this brand is interesting....

It has always been my dream of having a fashion brand. I saved some money and bought fabrics to a tailor friend to make nice shirts for me. I embroidered my brand name on the shirt and wore it to class one day. It caught people's attention and boom ! a started business.

That very day I had 3 people showed interest and the rest they say was history. 

P.K: Looking at the time you started , you were still in school right .? How did it affect your academics as a student and at the same time an entrepreneur ...? 

NB: Yes please...School birth the entrepreneurial mindset. It didn't really affect my academics. I was very strategic. I didn't get time to study because I  had to get things working and business running..so what I usually did was to join a Study group to learn.

Studying with the group did a lot of magic, I listened more and talked less.

NB: Awesome ! What 3 things have you learnt so far starting and running a business of your own ...

NB: Self confidence, Consistency

& Focus.

P.K: Starting a business while in school or waiting till you finish school ....Which according to your experience is better ..? And why ?

NB: Starting while in school is better...You get to meet so many people to support you. Guess what, there's a great market there too.

P.K: You are the CEO of your own company, How does it feel like being your own boss ...?

What are the pros and cons ....?

I feel there's a great task for me to achieve. It hasn't been an easy journey...staying up late into the nights, facing rejections, sometimes living on an empty pocket, loneliness etc.

I have also learnt some soft skills along line and have met new people as well.

P.K: From your experience ....would you advice a young aspiring entrepreneur planning to start a business to get a hands on experience with an established company first before starting his own ..? So he/she doesn't get surprised with the realities of running a business ....? Or u say it can be learned  in a book ...?

What's ur take ..?

NB: Reading a book and not practising what the book says is cos 90 (0)....it can be learnt in the book though but learning from someone is fine.

Let me use myself as an example.

I learnt design on YouTube but there were things I had to meet someone to teach me.

P.K: What are some of the realities or problems u would face when starting a business?

NB: Financial problems

You will fail so many times

People won't believe until you have started.

People won't support you until you have started.

You will face series of rejections

However, Believe in God, Believe in yourself, embrace consistency, Focus and always show results rather than saying.

P.K: What's the future for u as an entrepreneur ..?

NB: To inspire the world with my business.

P.K: Any book you'll recommend  on Entrepreneurship ..?

NB: Books by Dale Carnegie ( How to win friends and influence people)

Brain Tracy ( Psychology of selling & Eat that frog )

Robert kiyosaki ( Read all his books to learn more about money )

Napoleon hill ( Think and Grow rich) .


I believe you have learnt something from this interview...? 

Don't forget to Share with  us what  you've learnt in the comment box ....


Yours fruitfully, P.K Quaye, The Enthusiast.


#thecode57effect #Africanentrepreneurs #changemakers. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

POPULATION CONTROL: Is it a tool of the rich?

Image
  As the world population reaches seven billion people, the BBC's Mike Gallagher asks whether efforts to control population have been, as some critics claim, a form of authoritarian control over the world's poorest citizens. The temperature is some 30C. The humidity stifling, the noise unbearable. In a yard between two enormous tea-drying sheds, a number of dark-skinned women patiently sit, each accompanied by an unwieldy looking cloth sack. They are clad in colourful saris, but look tired and shabby. This is hardly surprising - they have spent most of the day in nearby plantation fields, picking tea that will net them around two cents a kilo - barely enough to feed their large families. Vivek Baid thinks he knows how to help them. He runs the Mission for Population Control, a project in eastern India which aims to bring down high birth rates by encouraging local women to get sterilised after their second child. As the world reaches an estimated seven billion people, people lik...
Read more

LITTLE THINGS THAT MATTER

Image
  -By Silent Beads Before I started writing this story, I counted the number of rules we’ve set for ourselves since we got married. Hundred? Two hundred? Maybe more. I don’t remember. We didn’t write them down so it’s hard to remember. The truth is, if we wrote them down, we would have needed a hundred yards of paper to be able to write everything down. Each day comes with different issues and each issue demands a new rule. The funny thing is, we don’t remember the existence of most of the rules until someone breaks them. This is how the first rule came about…I was at the kitchen cooking when my husband joined. I had fresh fish, salted fish, and mɔmɔne on display. He tried to help with the cooking. A few seconds later, the scent in the kitchen changed. The scent started innocuously and got deadly by the second. I thought the scent was coming from the salted fish or the mɔmɔne. I smelt all of them and they were good. Not knowing my husband had farted. The smell was so bad it stayed ...
Read more

INTO FEAR AND OUT OF FEAR.

Image
Fear No Man Clothing™   The best stylists with an eagle eye for fashion, popularly known in showbiz circles as Kulaperry,  CEO of Kulaperryoutlook shares his journey with us in preaching against fear through fashion. Have a good read ! Code57: There's a lot to be known about a man who preaches fearlessness through Clothing. Do u have any personal experiences with the enemy called FEAR? Kulaperry: First of all, what is fear? Because if I should say... my personal experience with fear is what has made me who I am. Because I met fear, I was born into it, then I defeated it and I became Kulaperry. Because at the end of the day whatever was fear to me, became my base of elevation. Code57: Awesome, how have you been able to defeat fear? Kulaperry: In defeating fear is more or less what you fear, so as a matter of fact I have to watch what I fear. What is at the other side of fear? That was my curiosity, so my curiosity was to know what was at the other side of fear. In doing that, I...
Read more