….Or have met anyone who has by the sounds of things. Being around the entertainment world I always hear unwritten money stories of excesses on part of super wealthy private individuals (or politicians) trying to curry favour with our new wave of young cool celebrities. I would hazard to guess

Earlier this year I was flying the red eye between Lagos and NYC (an 18 hour-ish flight), I was in the upper class bar discussing the finer points of Nigerian capital markets with an enterprise tech dude I happen to always randomly meet on that route (he’s based on the

Before I started SPARK, I tried to work out the value of Nigeria’s internet space. I looked at the valuations of iROKO, Konga, Privateproperty, Jumia (Nigeria), Pagatech, Chekki and a bunch of others. I came to a value of approximately $200–250Mn. I predicted that value would grow before 2017 to

I am a super careless person. Rarely do I take anything in life too seriously. Except for death. Which terrifies me. My wife and I lost our younger sisters in late 2011 so I have dealt with the enormity and absolute grief of losing someone too young to go. Yesterday

So we started a little experiment earlier this year. Follow our users. An experiment which turned into a bigger experiment. We ended up following our users offline. A fundamental theme of all Spark companies is their ability to facilitate offline activity online. Thats it. Take the most horrendously inefficient offline

Profit is a strange thing. Most people I come across don’t actually understand its relationship with time and market forces. Especially bloggers. I’m going to write a series of articles about my view on profitable frameworks of thinking, profit making and profit taking. Profit is choice Profit is actually a

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I came across an oooooooold article I wrote on Facebook on 18th February 2009. Almost 4 years ago. I was in deep dispair and poverty at the time. Just thought it was good to share considering I haven’t been able to blog recently. Hope you enjoy. * yes I did

So Bastian and I were debating about the type of founders and companies we were getting through the SPARK email tsunami which hit us since launch. I have spent the best part of my weekend trying to reply to all the emails with at least a little individuality. Its slow.

SPARK.ng is not a FUND but a COMPANY (source spark.ng) — for me SPARK.ng is all HYPE. Yes, make enough noise and you will get heard particularly in a country like Nigeria. Listening to interviews with Jason et al, they have failed to clearly articulate the actual synergies or benefits being achieved