Zero sum games are games where there is only one winner and everyone else is a loser — a good example is sports. Just one team/person wins the cup, everyone else goes home sad. Business is not a zero sum game, there can be 100 people providing a particular service yet everyone makes it. But I don’t think people understand what it means to be number one in an industry. Let the numbers do the talking

In 2018, we raised funding for Verilearn. 3 years later, we closed our doors even though we put in the work, marketed like our lives depended on it, tapped personal and professional help, hired smart people, ran ads…we did it all yet we failed. Here is the story Let’s go…

I’m told there is a proper way to launch a business and I’m finally listening to the experts. Fushure, a startup I’ve been working on since 2020 is now nearing launch. We’ve create a token on the binance smart chain network and we plan on making it the token with…

Say by the off-chance, a probability of .00000001% I become president of Nigeria, will things change? Oh yes! A nation cannot be changed overnight. So I’ll pick 2 areas and get them to 100%. Electricity and Refineries. Hear me out. I have a plan. It will take less than the…

You spend weeks and months building that shiny new app — because it’s 2022 and apps are billion Dollar businesses these days. Then you ship. Congrats if you ship. Most never ship. Most ship and never market = dead. But you shipped and you marketed aggressively so you have a…

We are all pursuing different goals and trying to improve our odds daily. Most of the things we find ourselves working on are remarkably interesting — and it’s worth sharing our journey. If you are not sharing your journey, you’re missing out big time. How to share your journey Build in public: This is by far the easiest and most effective way to gain followers…and customers. If you are not putting content out there every step of the way, you are leaving valuable opportunity on the table…

Great idea. What's the possible launch time we are looking at?

This goes against conventional wisdom but I have a problem with people picking exactly where they want a principle to apply. In investments, you are told not to put all your eggs into one basket- it is considered smart to diversify in investments. However, in entrepreneurship, you are advised to…

Maybe we are doing it wrong. Africa is so different from Europe and the U.S. A lot of the methodologies we adopt here are all stuff proposed and pushed by the West and maybe that’s why we are not seeing a lot of success. Building an email list sounds glamorous…