It takes a village to raise a child!
I was surprised the other day when my presentation at an event was abruptly stopped by someone who asked the question..” What do you mean you are still a startup? The TechVillage has a community of over 200 people and
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(This article was originally published on my personal blog. You can find it here.) I recently got featured in iAfrikan, a really awesome publication in sub-saharan africa. Here is the article: In my journey to find out more about African startups,
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Starting up is hard! It really is, and most people don’t understand how difficult it is to create real value. The fragility of early stage ventures in their ambitious quest to create some sort of value. I think it is
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I came across this video last night. It is about a little boy trying to break a board by any and all means necessary. The instructor taught the child how to do it, from the fighting stance to the downward
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I haven’t posted anything in a while for a whole lot of reasons, the most important being that, I have come to a point where all that I have learnt over the past 5 years of “starting up” is coming
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I love my on-demand services. They are a lazy man’s dream. No need to plan ahead; no need to even move. Yet, I’ve heard more and more anecdotes about how the quality of on-demand services has plummeted recently. Despite all
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The chicken and egg problem for Startups Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to work on a variety of entrepreneurial ideas and startups, ¹ most of which either failed to take off or took off and abruptly
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Starting up is hard! It really is, and most people don’t understand how difficult it is to create real value. The fragility of early stage ventures in their ambitious quest to create some sort of value. I think it
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So most entrepreneurs i have met almost always talk about how they need capital in order to startup, which is understandable given that very few have the resources to go through the traditional “bootstrapping” that we all so love to
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This was originally posted by Paul Graham and points out some of the issues that first-time founders take lightly. “One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it’s better to make a
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