One can utilise one’s own skills and imagination to build up a viable business. Such is the case with entrepreneur and inventor Asidu Abudu who has dreamed up inventions of mechanical devices to make and now has emerging as a successful venture.

Asidu Abudu sits in his workshop surrounded by gadgets of odds bits and pieces. This is his mechanical playing ground, where inanimate and discarded objects are brought to life with his inventive hands. Since a child, Asidu has dreamt up inventions in his sleep and gone to work making them the following day.

Turning his hobby into his business venture, he has found that there are many resourceful uses for his objects. Focusing on the needs of people, like those who have lost limbs in war and are now incapable to feed themselves with their own hands, he has made devices that will help them manage in real life. This can be seen with his feeding instrument that spoons food into the mouth of the disabled person using it.

There is much study and hard work that goes into Asidu’s work and he spends most of his time making new inventions and experimenting in his workshop. Considering the possibilities of the business, he has started taking a more marketable approach, figuring out where his devices could be put to use on a larger scale as a more commercially profitable venture. This is why he came up with the idea of security devices for people’s cars connected to the mobile phone.

We learn from Asidu that if you want to turn your hobby into your business, as an entrepreneur you need to put all your time, energy and hard work into it. Getting something off the ground is not an easy task, but is possible with determination and ingenuity.

Adopted from the Africa Report