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…
The paramount skill a PM needs is the ability to influence people. Talk people into jumping off a cliff on your behalf. To commit long hours to an idea or initiative that may or may not work. And when it…
You know how… when you were 21, you were not afraid to pack a bag and move to another city to pursue an opportunity you were not quite sure of? But now that you are (maybe) older, you are…
“Our product is going to kick ass because we have more features!”
“If you give me more features, I can increase revenue”
E-commerce is so 2015. This year, fintech is the new e-commerce. Something new (or two, or three) is launching every month. Overall, this is a good thing. I suspect the motivations for those launching products or companies will…
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…
Story, story…
Yes, you have to say “stoooooorryyyyy”.
I would not lie, I have been struggling with what to feel about these two stories that came up recently. You see, I’m a complete romantic for sheer hustle and grit. When I see examples of this, it just…
Companies are vehicles through which individuals hope to impact the world, create something that hopefully outlives the founders and makes them rich in the process. Ideally. Not counting all the portmanteau and Ghana-Must-Go vehicles created by Nigerian…