Moving From Financial Access To Health
Over the past decade, the push for financial inclusion has united governments, companies, technology entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations in dozens of countries on every…
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Here’s How Government Can Actually Help Startups
Ten years ago, the 5 largest publicly traded companies in the world included 2 oil firms and one tech firm. Today, all 5 are…
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How Andela was founded – Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Editor’s note: You probably already know that talent accelerator, Andela raised $24 million in a funding round led by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. What…
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Pitch perfect: Four things you must do to nail investor meetings
The pitch doesn’t matter, a good business speaks for itself, right? Wrong.
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Radar Offline pictures, online
So. Many. Feels.
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Why building your company, NOT capital raising, is your number one priority
Here are the 4 truths that no one ever tells you about raising capital.
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What women VCs want
Hint: People over ideas.
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An analysis of Hotels.ng 2012 pitch that was sent to Rocket Internet
I conceived of the idea for Hotels.ng in early 2012. I started working on it then (it was called hotels.com.ng), made a beta, and…
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Should you really join an incubator?
There are no shortcuts to success. For too many entrepreneurs, this is what the idea of a startup incubator has become.
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Series intro: Startup funding advice series by Lexi Novitske
Dis gon be gud.
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TechCabal Live: Are Nigerian entrepreneurs too fixated on ecommerce?
Join the live broadcast tomorrow.
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Aniedi Udo-Obong is leaving Afro to join Google
He will handle developer relations for Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Nine things Nigerian startups need to understand while they search for funding
After a year on the investor sideI have been repeatedly asked for some sort of checklist that startups can work with to increase the chances that we’ll invest.
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Sim Shagaya: Konga and ecommerce, here to stay
We are bullish on the future of Nigeria and e-commerce.
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Figma Is The Killer of Photoshop’s Killer
It feels like Slack’s beta all over again.
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Online Payments In Nigeria Needs A Saviour
To understand why I feel the current state of payments is so horrid, you first need to understand that I’m approaching this from the perspective of a SaaS founder.
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It’s Okay To Be Too Early. Just Don’t Die
iROKOtv’s founder penned a 4th year anniversary blog post with an interesting subtext.
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Throwback: Online Payments In Nigeria Is (Still) A Clusterfuck
We’ve been on this matter for what, like ten years now?
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Of Lagos And Startups: A Returning Angel’s Perspective
Lagos is a different place from the one I grew up in and left more than ten years ago.
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Say Hello To Nigeria’s Newest Angel Investor: Sim Shagaya
Sim Shagaya just swelled the still thin ranks of angel investors on the continent
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Sharing Is Caring, Except In Africa’s Startup Ecosytem?
While the internet has broken mindsets around “me” and “mine”, replacing it with collaboration and crowdfunding, we are still stuck in our protective ways.
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Exclusive: Hotels.ng Raises $1.2 Million Series A From Omidyar, EchoVC
In what will likely be one of the most talked-about African startup funding events of 2015, Hotels.ng has secured $1.2 million from international investors Omidyar Network and EchoVC.
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Ask Adii Pienaar Anything: An Interactive Chat On Radar
TechCabal is hosting an interactive “ask him anything” session with South African technology entrepreneur and investor, Adii Pienaar on Radar.
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The One Reason You Should Own Your Domain Name
Most people wander around life without caring who owns their domain name. When I say domain name in this context, I’m talking about their…
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Afro: The Second Impression
24 hours ago, I accepted to take up the role of Afro’s GM in Nigeria. (Yeah, AfroCab is so 2014).
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Startup 101: All The Legal Stuff Investors Like To See Before They Invest
The desired end result of the dance performed by a founder and an investor is for the founder to get the investor to believe in her/him, and provide the funding required to develop her/his product to the extent he is able to attract sufficient business for both founder and investor to be financially rewarded.
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Startup 101: The Ultimate Startup Documentation Starter Pack
In this post, I’ll be highlighting a few documents you a startup should have, and why they need those documents. These documents are what we lawyers would say are sine qua non to your existence as a startup, which is simply lawyer speak for essential, an absolute requirement, important, vital, crucial, etc
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Getting Press For Your Startup Is Easier Than You Think
This advice is not only practically bulletproof, it works for any tech blog.
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Startup 101: Intellectual Property Is Not A Fundamental Human Right
It is time to step on the brakes and take a step back. You need to curb your excitement and strike that balance of disclosing as little as possible while saying just enough to get their buy-in.
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Startup Vesting: Because No One Jumps Off A Cliff Without A Chute
From my experience as a startup lawyer, one of the greatest deficiencies I have found among Nigerian founders is the absence of a vesting arrangement.
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Startup 101: Founder Relationships, And Why Getting a Prenup is Important
It is no exaggeration when a founders relationship is likened to a marriage and as it is with marriages, it is important you get it right.
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Startup Setup Basics, Part Two: Company, Business Name Or Partnership?
No single entity can be termed the perfect entity. Instead, what we have is an entity that is most suitable for a particular situation.
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Where Are The Moonshots? Ep. One Of Mich Atagana’s Podcast Asks Hard Questions of African Startups
Even after retiring from active tech blogging to work with Google, Mich is still worried that much of the conversation around the African tech startup ecosystem revolves too much around investment, and not enough around building innovative, problem solving, scalable, zero-to-one ventures.
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Startup Setup Basics, Part One: Good Legal Karma
Karma CAMA is the law which strikes erring business entities or enables law abiding ones in Nigeria.
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Startup 101: First Of All, Introduction
I promise to try to speak only English as we set out on this journey and keep the legal jargon to the barest minimum. After all, the startup grind is difficult as it is without having to make it worse with legalese prose.
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8 Common Intellectual Property Mistakes Tech Startups Make
Most of these mistakes startups make can be avoided if a little more attention is paid to crossing the Ts and dotting the Is of their legal.
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Edge Rank Secrets: How Businesses Can Get The Most Out Of Facebook
It turns out that there are lots of people who in fact have never looked “under the hood” of Facebook but they make a professional use of it on a daily basis.
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This Is Why Tigo Rwanda And iROKOtv Need Each Other
It’s a huge win-win
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Designing A Wealth Management Industry In Africa For The Digital Age
The global financial services industry is facing a wave of digital disruption that is starting to reshape the industry. Global Fintech financing has grown…
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Five Lessons The Tech Ecosystem Can Learn From Nigeria’s Music Industry
The growth of the Nigerian music industry has been phenomenal. How does this relate to the Nigerian technology ecosystem and what lessons can we draw from the success and fast growth of the Nigerian music industry?
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