Founder and CEO of GigaLayer. A Domain and web hosting company delivering ‘fire-blazing’ customer service on 'rock-solid’ web servers. Welcome to my personal site.
Facebook not selling to Yahoo was brilliant; Yahoo not selling to Microsoft was a mistake! Successes and failures often come down to leverage. Common wisdom states that “ the Customer is always right ” and “ Customers don’t know what they want. ” However, the line between boldness and recklessness is thin and apparent only in hindsight. Risk and luck, therefore, are closely…
Today, I sat in front of my computer at work but couldn’t work. I was reviewing how we have been doing as a company, the first quarter of the year is few days to be gone and looking at my self as a person and a team leader. Things started bothering me, they were all nitty-gritty, from the internet service providers at the office delivering poor service to electricity not stable and our burn rate,…
For many Startup Founders, this is how it mostly starts. I have a brilliant idea, I know it will succeed and I am trying to raise funds for my startup. Now, I will go talk to some investors. Unfortunately, that is not the way to start Kind of like you, we all started somewhere with an idea, full of courage and passion to build a Startup that will make a difference and yield revenue to a point hat…
Often times we get caught up in the big picture of things, we forget they all started small. All the things and people that we see as our giants, or experts, or world-class or professional or incredible and marvelous were all once mare babies, amateurs, mediocre and unprofessional. The only thing that made them who they are today is constant efforts to become something, to improve and to move…
I am about to digest what I understood about the current FX Transaction limit in Nigeria for me, you and everyone else that is inside or from Nigeria with money in the country or earning money from it. If you’ve read my earlier post, just 2 days ago (I was still trying to understand the situation at the time), you’d notice that I’ve come a long way getting the head of the thread and finding a…
The 300 USD daily and 1,000 USD monthly limit set on our Debit Cards in Nigeria was not enough to put things in shape for the country’s drooling economy. A complete halt is the next move by the Central Bank . The news says, after 1st January 2016 it’s game over for FX Transactions with Nigerian bank cards as CBN might put a halt on our funds outside the Country. We’d just go back to…
Is it necessary or are we just unnecessarily pushing ourselves too hard? If you are someone like me; then you just want to achieve the most of every minute of your life. This is common to Nerds, to be nothing but productive and never waste a minute at that – Time is so precious to us On a Plane: ok let me read a book, or maybe list the things I should do as soon we land, I could as well do…
These are exciting times, success is a lot easier than failure. As a developer, or fledgling entrepreneur you’re always eager to launch your startup or new business and you get busy without any validation. This comes at a lot of non-visible good and bad consequences, you may fail, you may persevere, but how can you tell? You may just be building a product so well that nobody actually needs.…
Lately, I discovered these social instant messaging apps are taking too much of my time, energy and life. We need communication quite alright, but is it even necessary to stay connected at every giving minute with all the people in our lives? Just a drop of text away? In real time! I don’t think so! For me, it all started with WhatsApp then Skype Mobile, then Facebook Messenger and now…
Often times I get drained, feeling like the marrow in my bones are being sucked out of me by the day-to-day brain pull of business, growth, scalability, processes, etc. As a Founder of a tiny small Hosting Company , everything boils down to my ability to act fast, and it only get’s tougher every day. Some times, I will wake up in the middle of the night and ask my self such stupid questions…
This post was inspired by someone who asked me why GigaLayer’s prices are higher than XYZ and ABC hosts in Nigeria. So, I thought I should digest this here beyond the case of GigaLayer a lone. First, the goal of every business is to be profitable enough to sustain itself for decades or even forever as the case may be, to be able to serve it’s customer effectively and efficiently with…
When I look back, remembering the days I first decided what I wanted to do with the life I have, regardless of whether I will succeed or fail. That 17yr old me was self-exploring the work of craftsman on the world wide web, what the geeks of today call web-development . During the course of my adventure, I faced lots of challenges with Web Hosting and even my first domain was confiscated because I…
I wish someone had told me this early in my life: There is a gap. That for the first couple of years, that you are making stuff, what you are making isn’t so good. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not quiet that good. The most important, possible thing you could do is; do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work. Because it’s only by actually going through a volume of…
“Innovation doesn’t necessarily mean you need to discover a new element in Chemistry, it means to use 2 molecules of Hydrogen and one of Oxygen to form Water!” - – Stop trying to invent everything; Stop!
Your Ideas are some o’l bull Sshh*t. Back in May 2011, I registered a domain name flippii.com right inside Lagos Resource Centre in Victoria Island during the first Garage48 event in Africa where I and a team of 6 other great guys built a service on top that domain, enabling people share their Ideas. The aim was to get the notion off the heads of people that “ an idea is everything ” (well, it…
At some some point in life… you will realize that you have done too much for someone or something, that the only next possible step is to stop; leave them alone and walk away. It’s not like you’re giving up and it’s not like you shouldn’t try, it’s just that you have to draw the line of determination from desperation. What is truly yours will eventually be and…
If you are serious with your business, start blogging. I grew to discover that blogging is crucial in every online business, you must blog. It is not a thing of choice. It doesn’t matter the business you are into, you need to have quality interaction with your customers. Customers buy from people they know and trust and blogging is the best way to let your customers to know you better by writing…