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Strategy14 Aug 202612 min
Why most Nigerian-founded UK businesses fail in their third year — and what the ones that survive do differently

After nine years building businesses on both sides of the UK-Nigeria corridor, the pattern is consistent: the businesses that survive make one decision their peers avoid, and they make it before they need to. This is that decision.

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Usman Ayankoya MAPM
Founder & CEO · Hawkish Group

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