August 12 2025 Presence One of the unassailable truths of life is that life itself is a classroom of unending lessons. Right from the moment, as a tiny baby, you enter this world and its airy environment, you are forced to take air into your lungs. You have to learn…
29th December, 2025 2025 was a foundational year for Akowe. As a founder, I often see myself as a music conductor, conducting an orchestra. The timely coordination of all the different instruments, their timed highs and lows, their staggered interjections, the call and response, the attentiveness of the musicians themselves…
The next thing we built in the same year 2011, while still tinkering with Asktheweber, was FlyMyAds. Read my last fb post about Asktheweber. I remember we were tinkering with the idea of helping small businesses. We thought: what if we could build a network where website owners will advertise…
You have an idea! Great! So do a hundred, a thousand other people. Your exact same idea. Or several variations of it. So what are you going to do about it? If you haven't run a business before, or you are just starting out, chances are you are hugging your…
What separates many people from their dreams is often times their ability or inability to take action. One the one side, there are those dreamers, who have 12 ideas per minute and who at the same time find as many reasons why the ideas will not work. On the other…
These two sentences are the cornerstones of success. Or Failure! They are so simple, yet so true. They simply state the facts as they are thereby reminding us that our successes or failures lie only in our own hands and the decisions we make. I do not think it needs further explanation.
This post is meant for those who have become brave enough to explore the possibilities that lie beyond their comfort zone. because that’s where the magic happens. It is meant for those who have resolved within themselves to create for themselves another source of income. It is meant for those who, through the desperation of unemployment, have also resolved to find a solution for themselves.
Nigeria is hard. There are just too many bottle necks besotting the most simple processes. Entrepreneurship in Nigeria is even harder. But hey, whoever said it was going to be easy?
A few days ago while stuck in the world-famous Lagos traffic, I thought to myself while standing in the BRT bus: some people do this everyday? We had been in traffic for about two hours and I wasn’t even sitting! The queue at the BRT station had made me promptly join the ‘standing line’. Now I was shifting my weight from one leg to the other. The guy standing behind me was obviously a veteran; he came prepared: large earphones plugged to his Samsung phone. He was oblivious of the traffic.