Online Business Daily Digest – October 16, 2025

Here’s today’s Online Business roundup 💻. From freelancing to e-commerce, these are the key updates.

1. 4 Proven Strategies to Level Up Your EA Partnership
2. Don’t Chase Trends—Catch Them
3. 🇳🇬 This fintech is driving billions in consumer loans across Africa and staying under the radar
4. 🇳🇬 Wakanow acquires Nairabox
5. 5 Critical Mistakes New Business Owners Make After Formation That Put Their Personal Assets at Risk
6. 76-Year-Old Billionaire Ray Dalio Wants People to Ask Him Questions on Social Media So He Can Train His AI Clone
7. 1min.AI for just $79.99 – Mashable
8. Mashable – Mashable
9. 3 Custom GPTs That Make You More Money and Free Your Time
10. Driving Predictable Recurring Revenue With Customer-Led Growth
11. 🇳🇬 Too many fundraises, not enough returns: A story of African tech
12. 🇳🇬 Liz Gomiz wants Africans to own the digital tools shaping their stories
13. Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable co-workers – TechCrunch
14. Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO – TechCrunch
15. 🇳🇬 NERC approves N28 billion to DisCos for free meter roll out
16. 🇳🇬 6 strategies to grow your e-commerce business in Nigeria
17. The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff
18. A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved
19. This startup uses AI agents to place people in jobs. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $20 million.
20. Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock says the robotics company is building ‘a new species’

That’s all for online business today 🚀. Are you building a side hustle or scaling up? Share below!