The One Skill that will Stop you from Being Replaced By Robots
The single most important skill you will ever learn is in itself an oxymoron. It is dependent on your ability to vanquish procrastination and achieve something today with view to tackling the unknown that comes tomorrow. As I’ve written previously it requires the drive to…
4 Strategies for Successfully Bootstrapping Your Startup
Although many startup founders dream of securing massive investments from VCs or Angel investors that catapult their companies to endless growth, the reality is that most startups never receive any sort of significant outside investment. Fortunately, it’s entirely possible to build a hugely successful company…
Cloud Is Not a Digital Transformation Strategy (Unless You Are Amazon)
How did an online bookstore eat the cloud? In 2002, Jeff Bezos did an odd, remarkable thing. He applied an IT architecture (SOA) to the culture, processes, and organizational structure at Amazon. Bezos sent an internal mandate demanding that Amazon teams communicate with each other by exposing…
The Emotional Cost Of Being A Startup Founder
“We don’t do a great job of talking about the most important cost of starting a company — our mental and emotional well-being. Every bit of startup life chips away at our lives as a constant grind. It’s a journey few of us truly appreciate until we…
How to Recruit Investors for Your Startup
Successfully convincing investors to fund your startup is not easy. Although certain recent developments in the startup world have removed barriers to securing funding, it nevertheless remains true that new businesses often face significant difficulties when trying to recruit investors. Atthe same time, the success of…
Outgrowing Our Internet: Caught Between the Intranet and the Decentralized Web
SaaS has had a good run. Over the last decade, it became the dominant way to deliver software and value to customers. It became faster than ever to spin up a new provider for any possible task an individual or company might want to achieve….
Making Sense of The Different Types of Artificial Intelligence Companies
As a Data Science grad from NYU and a VC analyst, I’m lucky to get to see and evaluate a lot of startups that are involved with AI (note: this term has some baggage. For the purposes of this post, I use AI and ML…
Plan to attend Networking 101 Workshop for Founders in Lagos on September 9th
Would you like to meet startup founders who are already making their mark on the technology scene like BudgIT CoFounder, Joseph Agunbiade or MaxDeliver’s CEO Chinedy Azodoh or Tolet.com.ng’s CEO, Fikayo Ogundipe or Redbank’s CEO Boro Ezekiel or Waracake’s CEO, Tunde Ayilara or Slate Cube’s…
Apply For The Lightning Lab Electric Accelerator Program
The Lightning Lab Electric Accelerator is a three-month business growth programme powered by New Zealand’s premier startup accelerator brand, Lightning Lab. This programme is designed to help energy sector companies compete on a national and global scale. Six teams will be accepted, gaining access to…