Dear Entrepreneur

On April 2 2019 Jason Njoku a Nigerian entrepreneur tweeted about how entrepreneurship abuses and consumes us if we let it. This is nothing but the truth. Entrepreneurship isn't glamorous at all and often it affects our mental health. However in contrast to Njoku's opinion I believe there is true happiness in entrepreneurship if we share our pains mistakes worries failures and shortcomings with other like-minded entrepreneurs and receive feedback and help from them and grow from there. In a bid to achieve this I started a podcast for entrepreneurs called Dear Entrepreneurs in April 2019. Olamide Akomolafe a colleague and I anchored this podcast in Accra Ghana from April to July 2019; recording eight episodes within three months. In each episode we talked about our experiences as entrepreneurs the good the bad and the ugly in order to encourage other entrepreneurs going through tough times. We garnered hundreds of listeners from Nigeria Ghana Kenya Canada Germany United States and Mauritius but had to discontinue the podcast unfortunately after the eight-episode as Olamide and I flew out of Ghana and began living several timezones apart. In December 2019 I somewhat rekindled the podcast as I began posting across my social media profiles a series of open letters to entrepreneurs. Since then I have written and posted hundreds of open letters to entrepreneurs like myself. All letters begin with Dear Entrepreneur... and closes with With love Chidi. In March 2020 I decided to collate all letters already posted online and to be posted into a book called Dear Entrepreneur. It should serve as a devotional for entrepreneurs looking for a companion along their entrepreneurial journey. They will be 366 open letters from January to December; a letter for each day including February 29 for the leap years. My hope is that you start your day by reading one of the letters and it helps you put everything into perspective.