Everyone is now creating content. Everyone and their dog and 2 cats can now easily start a blog around anything from business, dating, tech, design, anything and anything. Yet, as we all know, this development has only increased the amount …
If you want to stay innovative, this is what you must avoid doing
Innovation does not start from thinking: “this is a great business opportunity, how do we cash in”. That does not work so well. Real innovation starts from “this is a serious problem and existing solutions suck! How can we solve …
One Jumia to rule them all, but will it solve the problem?
Africa Internet Group is merging all their operations under the Jumia brand. This means all startups under AIG are undergoing some form of rebranding or the other. Basically, their names are going to be changed to Jumia-something. Jovago will become …
So, who gets the credit?
I agree with people who say that we would make much more progress as a race if we did not care too much about who got the credit. When it comes to our work and things we do, we always …
Who will Mark feature next?
So, in May, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder featured Jobberman. Last week, he featured Andela, both of them are tech start-ups started by Nigerians in Nigeria. So, who will he feature next? Any spiritual, physical, economic, moral or cultural law that …
The forces that shape our destiny
I believe that there are forces that shapes our lives. Things do not just happen, life appears to be too ordered to be just a series of accidents like the Physicists would love us to believe. There is a God …
Uber steps into its 475th city
Uber has never made a secret of its desire to takeover the world. They are now rolling out services in their 9th African country and 475th city. Uber has rode on the back of technology to become the biggest transportation …
From humble beginnings and unto the biggest stages
I was excited and felt pumped up afresh to continue moving those mountains yesterday when Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook publicly disclosed that he was investing in Andela. The for-profit company (everything does not have to be a NGO, …
You need to want it bad enough
Anything you want to achieve in this life is possible, but you need to want it bad enough. If you really want it , you will get it done, else… you will find an excuse. We all know how easy …
Sleeping time is not idle time
A lot of productive people like to talk about how much sleeping is a waste of time and why we should all avoid sleeping. I do not subscribe to that view. I rather believe that if I have worked hard …