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In 2014 I put a third of my liquid net worth into a company because I liked the founder. Here is how I lost most of it, and the five rules I now refuse to break.
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.
The exact seven-part checklist I use before putting money into any business - the people, the unit economics, the financing, the exit, and the questions that reveal whether a founder actually understands their numbers.
The credit committee is not reading your business plan. Here is what it is actually looking at, and why most SME applications are declined before a human sees them.
A plot in Oyarifa, a chief's signature, a second claimant and two years in the Lands Commission. The education that started my property career.
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.
A currency collapse, a factory fire and 1,200 people looking at you. What I did, what I got wrong, and the rules I would give any leader facing their first real crisis.
Handshake partnerships, unsigned shareholder agreements, personal guarantees and the four other decisions that quietly destroy businesses. Educational content, not legal advice.
Low bandwidth, feature phones, mobile money, cash and trust: designing products for the users you actually have rather than the ones in the pitch deck.
From licensing with the HeFRA to hiring nurses who stay: what it actually takes to open and run a clinic that survives its second year.
Who to hire first, why generalists beat specialists at this stage, how to interview when you have no HR, and the hires I regret.
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.
