Five companies. Two failures. One I still run.
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A trusted driver, a full load and a truck that never arrived. How a theft forced me to build the systems I should have had from the start.
We raised a seed round for a consumer savings app, hit 40,000 users and were three months from running out of money. The B2B pivot nobody on the team wanted.
Fourteen years and five companies compressed into twenty-seven minutes of the things that would have saved me time, money and a great deal of sleep.
I started a logistics company at 24 with two trucks and a customer I trusted. Three years later I had no trucks, no customer and a lawsuit. What went wrong.
Fourteen years and five companies compressed into twenty-seven minutes of the things that would have saved me time, money and a great deal of sleep.
We raised a seed round for a consumer savings app, hit 40,000 users and were three months from running out of money. The B2B pivot nobody on the team wanted.
Most founders in Ghana price to be cheaper than the competitor. Here is how to price to survive.
Adjoa and Chidi Okafor compare notes: what founders think investors want, what investors actually want, and the gap between them.
A trusted driver, a full load and a truck that never arrived. How a theft forced me to build the systems I should have had from the start.