I was speaking with a very old friend of mine this weekend (I’ve known him since I was like 13 or something), and one of the founders of a Spark backed company, Lanre Akinlagun Founder of Drinks.ng. I asked him how things were. His response. Hard. I smiled. Of course

Photo credit to EMMANUEL OYELEKE PHOTOGRAPHY Nope. Not even close to it. There has been a chorus of all types of strange sayings recently about the imminent demise of iROKING platform and aggregation business. But then for the first time in over a year I actually looked at the revenue

In finance, diversification means reducing risk by investing in a variety of assets. If the asset values do not move up and down in perfect synchrony, a diversified portfolio will have less risk than the weighted average risk of its constituent assets, and often less risk than the least risky

The fastest way to legitimise dubious wealth is via property. Hence Lagos’ property market makes absolutely zero sense to me. I have just returned from an 8 day trip to SA. I was in Houghton Estate in JoBurg (one of its wealthiest suburbs in Johannesburg), I then went onto spend

At Microsoft there used to be a saying that if you throw more developers at a problem, it doesn’t necessarily speed up its development. Things are usually ready when they want to be. Throwing more people at it doesn’t change anything. In fact, smaller more focused teams have demonstrated themselves

So I have been in South Africa for the last week. From my keynote at Discop last week to a nice little feature on CNBC Africa, on this trip I have been in JoBurg, Durban and now in sunny Cape Town. Yesterday I had a bit of a down day

Small startups become very large companies faster in large single markets. India, China, USA, Russia, Brazil and Nigeria are perfect examples of very large markets. There are significant benefits of operating and building startups in a single market. I have spent the last few weeks in the USA. Whichever way

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

Last week I spoke on a panel in Cannes, France at the global content marketplace MIPCOM. I was truly honoured to be in the presence of true VOD (Video on Demand) greatness. iROKOtv.com has come a long way. A really long way since being launched 1st December 2011, but in

Sometimes little things help bring clarity as to why things needed to exist. Or at the least stand a good chance of surviving. Disruption, without adding value, is mediocrity and chaos. The easiest way to gauge the value you are adding is simply to talk to customers. Or, in this