The ability to make good decisions is literally the reason people trust you with responsibilities. Whether you work for a government or lead a team at a private company, your decision-making process will affect lives in very real ways. Organisations often make poor decisions because they fail to learn from the past. Wherever a data-collection […]
With more than 2000 spoken languages, Africa’s linguistic diversity is second only to Asia. A third of the world’s languages is spoken by the 1.2 billion people living within her 54 countries. But the language of artificial intelligence is yet to gain fluency. It has become hackneyed to weave AI into every conversation about technology […]
Christian Wessels and Jasper Graf von Hardenberg, the co-founders of Nigerian renewable energy startup Daystar Power, have joined Endeavor Nigeria’s network of entrepreneurs. This comes after Daystar secured $4 million in debt financing from SunFunder, a solar energy-focused investor, to scale its energy provision services. Founded in 2017 and based in Lagos, Daystar Power provides […]
At the Endeavor Nigeria annual gathering in January, Halima Aliko Dangote walks in with her father who is introduced to a group of Flutterwave volunteers from MIT Sloan. Doing the honours is Bolaji Balogun, a 90’s veteran of First City Monument Bank, and CEO of Chapel Hill Denham, a Lagos-based investment consultancy. The Dangotes’ arrival […]
The ‘deca’ in Decagon signals a ten-year ambition to make Nigeria a globally envied hub for software engineering talent. It’s neither novel nor disruptive as far as mission statements go. Founded in 2018, the tech talent development company “is probably the least innovative thing I have done,” Chika Nwobi, Decagon’s founder and CEO, tells me. […]
A pair of sentences sting you from the first post on Rebel Money, a financial knowledge resource that has grown to become Rise today: …it’s only two things that determine if you get wealthy or not. Consider this (sic) the two levers of financial freedom: increase your income, or lower your expenses. At the time, […]
