This Entrepreneur Who Failed At Two Startups Succeeds In His Third Named Eelspace & Has Trained Over 900 Students

Technological Entrepreneur, founder of Eelspace, David Orok has gone down memory lane in his Entrepreneurship journey.

David who has failed in tiwo start ups finally succeeded in his third startup named EELSPACE.

Read his post below as shared on LinkedIn:

While starting out as an entrepreneur in 2016, poverty sat me down one hot afternoon in my one-room apartment and said to me “Young man, I will deal with you” 😁

I thought it was a joke so I just laughed it aside. I launched my first startup in 2016 to recycle waste lead from spoilt car batteries into organic solar panels but the startup failed within one year.

I decided to launch another startup in early 2017 to help university students easily find study materials, download textbooks, and get community assistance from other scholars when working on their assignments. I called it Rockyshelf, but it wasn’t rocking anything 😄 instead it failed within one year.

And then on January 18, 2018, I launched EELSPACE as an online directory to help freelancers find co-working spaces nearest to them and easily book from our web app.

We made just N250 (<$1) in 365 days. It was at that moment that I remembered what poverty told me and fear gripped me really well but I wasn’t moved.

Do you know why?
There is only one thing no one can take away from me, and that is my hunger to succeed. It is intoxicating and I love it.

Even with the failures of the past, I kept going on and kept pivoting EELSPACE from one business model to another just to survive the “valley of death” and it worked.

But in the past 7 years, I have since discovered why I failed in my first two startups.

It was because as a startup founder with little or no traction, I also had not many technical skills and so I always outsourced the development of my startup’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and ended up paying huge amounts of money to build a product that might not work.

And so early this year I convinced the team at EELSPACE to launch a training called Nocode Africa training where we teach startup founders and technical talents how to build MVPs (Mobile and Web Apps) without writing codes.

This allows them to fail faster and test their idea immediately without second-guessing the possibility of succeeding.

In the first cohort of Nocode Africa training by EELSPACE , we have 900+ students of which more than 40% are startup founders who are currently learning how to build MVPs for their startups without writing a single line of code.

Source: David Orok | LinkedIn

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