Meet Maryam Adebola-Salami
Maryam is a multipotentialite with 15 years of experience building successful businesses across diverse sectors, including fashion, IT, health, branding, marketing, and children’s personal care. With a Mini MBA in Business Development Strategy from the Metropolitan School of Business Management, UK, she now runs a consultancy focused on empowering women to achieve financial independence—an approach she believes is vital for true empowerment and reducing domestic violence in her community.
As Founder and CEO of Mobaby Care, Maryam has secured over $25,000 in grants and earned recognition through prestigious programs such as the Cherie Blair Foundation’s Road to Growth, Orange Corners Incubation, and Unicorn Accelerator, where she was valedictorian. Her goal is to build a globally impactful business that fosters meaningful careers and empowers women, contributing to SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth.
Here Is Her Session On How To Make Your Business Investor Ready
What Is An Investment?
An investment is an asset or item acquired with the goal of generating income or appreciation. Appreciation refers to an increase in the value of an asset over time. When an individual purchases a good as an investment, the intent is not to consume the good but rather to use it in the future to create wealth.
An investment always concerns the outlay of some resource today—time, effort, money, or an asset—in hopes of a greater payoff in the future than what was originally put in.
First 3 Things You Must Have To Make Your Business Investment Ready
- CAC business registration
- Corporate Bank account
- Audited bank statements
Next Things You Should Have Include:
- Viable products that is:
Accessible, Affordable (to your target audience), Usable and Valuable. - Socially viable : Social media and Web spaces
- Customer Testimonials
- Personal Brand (A face behind the business)
- Business/Company Profile
- Product Catalogue
- Transaction documents (a detailed invoicing software that shows your daily, weekly or monthly transactions to validate your financials). This is usually done by an accountant in conjunction with your financial records.
Questions
Q: How can one register their product and what are the requirements?
A: You are registering your business not the product.
Q: How does one find out about these opportunities?
A: You can find them on the CAC official website (cac.gov.ng)
You can follow Maryam on Instagram https://instagram.com/themade.woman