The key to growth
Many people think growth is key to expansion, but actually, expansion is the key to growth. You will start growing when you make expansions moves. You do not have to keep waiting until growth forces expansion (it does happen, but …
81 million people waiting for you
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has announced that the number of internet users on the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) networks has increased from 76,322, 802 in 2014 to 81,892,840 in January 2015. According to the data, that is …
Career and Calling
It is the spirit of poverty that gives you a career instead of a calling. When we talk about calling, it is not only pastors and evangelists that are called. God also calls people as business men (Boaz), technologists (Bezalel), …
If you are busy
If you are busy, or rather if you always appear busy, then you really need to get organised, become more efficient and if it all fails, review your workload. Get more organised: the more organised you are, the easier you …
Throwing more money
Anytime we hit a challenge at our business, our first response is to throw more money at it. You need more people to know about your upcoming conference? Simple, let us buy more ads and that should fix it, right? …
Fear killer
I recently thought deep about the overwhelming fear. The fear that stop us from taking the next step. One thing is that at some level, every time we say no rather than move forward is due to fear, whether you …
Why so serious?
I know many people see business as this boring, monotonous life that has to be done in order to put food on the table. That is the way they think a business should be run and they are right afterall, …
Tech moves slowly
In an alternate universe, Nigerians did not have to wait for nearly 72 hours and stay up all night waiting for elections results. The results are been collated in real time, once a person thumb prints his candidate of choice, …
Konga, Jumia and Nigerian Ecommerce
I do not think any conversation about ecommerce in Nigeria can be had without making a mention of Konga and Jumia, widely regarded as the pioneers of ecommerce in Nigeria and rightly so. No Nigerian ecommerce venture has gone this …
Another reading
I have learnt the practise of re-reading materials I have read, understood and comprehended before. I also watch certain movies I love so much over and over again. The amazing thing I discovered is that with every time I read …