FATE AEP

About the program

FATE Foundation’s Aspiring Entrepreneurs Program (AEP) is Nigeria’s longest-running pre-incubation program for aspiring entrepreneurial leaders looking to grow and build successful and sustainable businesses. To date, the program has graduated over 5,348 entrepreneurs across 16 states in Nigeria and counting. With a diverse spread of Alumni across all major sectors and industries in Nigeria, the AEP was our first flagship course that provided much-needed knowledge, tools, and support the understanding of the fundamentals of building a business to effectively generate income for themselves, create jobs and also contribute to Nigeria’s economic development.

The AEP emphasizes a future-ready curriculum and program support structure for individuals looking to grow and build successful local and global businesses, even in these challenging times, for individuals looking to grow and build successful local and global businesses. Hence the theme “Building the Future”.

What we’re looking for?

Our target participants are aspiring entrepreneurial leaders who:

• Have innovative minds;
• Looking to validate their Product and Service prototypes;
• Are interested in building sustainable business models;
• Desire to build effective structures & business processes;
• Want to expand their revenue generation capacity; and
• Are desirous of value-adding jobs and impacting their sectors and value chains.
• The program leverages the expertise of our C-level professionals as faculty members, who are experts in their various industries within different landscapes in the entrepreneur ecosystem.

Learning process

The curriculum is designed to offer an all-inclusive set of courses that addresses all the key tools needed in starting and running an effective business.

The program goes beyond teaching theoretical conceptions and frameworks to provide practical hands-on application in the current business realities through developing products and services that are market-driven.

These sessions are facilitated by various giants of industries across the entrepreneurial value chain, with its learning structure that includes a combination of interactive class sessions, workshops, case studies, and group activities.

Course structure

The FATE Aspiring Entrepreneur Program (AEP) will take place twice a week for 8 weeks for the weekdays and once a week on Saturdays for weekend classes for 12 weeks using cutting-edge classroom management tools. Lectures will be delivered in modules that afford participants the flexibility of time to run their businesses or jobs, while they participate in the program. The core part of the program will include the following modules:

• Ideation & design thinking
• Business Modeling
• Effective Marketing &Sales
• Finance Fundamentals
• Managing People
• Nuts &Bolts for your Business
• Managing &Growing your Business
• Technology &Digital Growth

As the classes progress, participants will be working on developing their plans and making immediate improvements in their respective businesses where necessary.

Key Program Benefits

• Hybrid Facilitator-Led Sessions
• Workshops and Seminars
• Guidance to Develop Your Business Plan
• Case Studies of Leading Businesses
• Pre & Post Session Activities
• Books including the 7 Set Nigerian Entrepreneur’s Handbook
• Three (3) months Mentoring Support from FATE Foundation
• Business Advisory Support from FATE Foundation

Who can apply?

To be eligible, you must:

• Be a minimum of 25 years old
• Be a Computer Literate
• Have at least an O-level Certificate