A tale of two startups

Story, story…

Yes, you have to say “stoooooorryyyyy”.

Is Hotels.ng pushing a good culture?

Yes.

Personally, I had nursed a silent hope that when technical-oriented founders start getting funded, we may begin to see some interesting developments in the tech-related small business environment here in Nigeria. (dodging the use of…

Dear Product Manager, start from the experience, not the tech

Coming from an engineering background, I spent most of my first years as a bumbling PM championing the building of some core tech, then hope we can put an effective customer experience around it. Then I came across this…

And now, my watch has ended. Thank you Interswitch.

When I joined Interswitch (the first coming) in 2006, I was a guy with an objective. I felt “the internet” was coming to Nigeria and I wanted to be on the forefront of creating services that fit very well with the coming wave. I dare say…

Just like FMCG, banking needs distribution

For the past nine months, the plumbers of OnePipe have been hard at work putting…

Dear Product Manager, it doesn’t end when you launch

I have been lucky to get a chance to be at the frontline of a few product launches. In all of them, for the products (or releases) that did well, I noticed a pattern.

12 months a startup — Here are lessons I’m taking into the future

This tech talent exodus from Nigeria, how we go do?

In the last 8 months or so, I think I may have heard more than a few rumours/reports of Nigerian developers, designers and other tech talent moving to Europe and the middle east. Now, it’s hitting closer to home. Few of my colleagues have…