Adeniyi Kolade sets record with first entrepreneurial board game, Entrump6, in Nigeria

If you are a fan of Chess, Scrabble and other board games,
then the launching of the first entrepreneurial board game, Entrump6, in Nigeria by Adeniyi Kolade
should get you excited.

Mr Kolade has taken entrepreneurial thinking, impact and
strategy to a new height with the invention and launching of his latest game
and first entrepreneurial board and card game, Entrump6.

Mr Kolade, who is a young entrepreneur with passion for ‘gamifying’
anything and everything, launched his fourth game at the Alexander Brown Hall,
University College Hospital, Ibadan Oyo State.

Speaking on the theme, Promoting Entrepreneurial Thinking For Impact
And Profit, Mr Kolade stated that Entrump6 is a board and
card game, designed to promote entrepreneurial attitude for both impact and
profit.

He added that achievements to an entrepreneur can be either
in terms of profit or impact, or both as the case may be.

“For the business entrepreneur, the primary goal is to make
profit through pursuit of opportunity, while for the social entrepreneur; the
primary goal is to make impact through problem solving and value creation.

“Entrump6
is a board and a card game designed to promote entrepreneurial attitude for
both impact and profit. It is logically crafted to demonstrate entrepreneurship
realities with respect to attributes of, and challenges faced by entrepreneurs
within the entrepreneurship ecosystem, and largely, traits exhibited by successful
entrepreneurs.

“Support for entrepreneurship is a crucial strategy for
national transformation and economic development through problem solving and
opportunity finding respectively. Entrump6 is an entrepreneurship-based game
designed to project these realities,” Mr Kolade said.

Keynote speaker, Mr Timi Olagunju, who is also a technology lawyer
stated that Nigerians have always been people of entrepreneurial mindset,
added that lack of system, which involves government policies, is the bane of
impactful entrepreneurial mindset.

“Beyond just sciences, we need people that will add the
A-factor into STEAM; the A-factor is the Art and that is the creative parts of
us, which drives ability to see a problem and create a solution out of that
problem and create wealth.

“Wealth in this context can be profit or impact. This is an
opportunity to see someone, through his skills and talents of being able to
create a game to solve a problem, which is the lack of entrepreneurial mindset
in young people. This is important to the growth of Nigeria and Africa as a
continent.”

Also, Opeyemi Adebari, a research assistant at Centre for
Petroleum Energy Economies and Law (CPEEL), enthused that representing
difficult things with simple logic gets her excited, which is what Entrump6 is
all about. “I’m optimistic that through ‘gamification’, difficult things, would
be not only easier to learn, would be result oriented too.”

Mr Kolade has also designed games like Cool Tour, to promote peoples knowledge, places and product; Prompt Card, designed to aid prompt and
managerial reasoning; Scripstars, a
bible board game and Entrump6, to
promote entrepreneurial thinking.