What a Pilot Program Should Actually Prove Before You Scale
There is a dangerous moment in building a startup when things start working.Customers are signing up. People are talking...
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The Real Reason Most Nigerian Tech Startups Do Not Survive Year Three
Ask most people why Nigerian startups fail and you'll get the same three answers on repeat: funding dried up, the market...
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Why Your MVP Does Not Need to Be Perfect — It Needs to Be Launched
We've sat across the table from a founder who'd been "almost ready to launch" for fourteen months. Fourteen months of ad...
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Fundraising Paperwork Nobody Explains Until You're Already in the Room
In the first three parts of this series, we followed the paperwork a Nigerian business needs as it grows: protecting rel...
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Founding-Stage Paperwork Nigerian Startups Skip — and What It Actually Costs
A founder we spoke with a while back — building a fintech tool out of Lagos — paid a contract developer roughly ₦2.5 mil...
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How to Protect Your Software Idea Before Handing It to a Developer
There's a belief that shows up in almost every first conversation we have with a non-technical founder: the idea is the...
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How to Find and Vet a Technical Co-Founder in Nigeria
You have an idea. You have drive. You have contacts. You have market sense. What you don't have is someone who can build...
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Equity, IP, and Contracts — What Every Non-Technical Founder Needs to Understand
You've got a great idea. You've found a technical co-founder who can build it. You shake hands, agree to split everythin...
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