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Beeing an Entrepreneur is not easy, after looking for marketable idea, planning and market research follows then sourcing for capital and hiring Begin. If the entrepreneur is lucky he or she will be able to move to stage two called Business building.
Trying any possible means to get customers, sometimes entrepreneur will found their target customers another time it might not be so, driving the business to its end.
Entrepreneur is a call and a journey, sorrounded by failure and success, that's why Entrepreneur is not for the faint hearted or what do you want to say to someone that lost about 2000 birds to Newcastle Disease Virus or an Importer that lost million worth of goods to Custom Officers.
Entrepreneur is hard, it is not advisable to go it alone. Why don't you associate with the like minded, people that can relate with your story; your failure and success.
Startuppreneur.com.ng was created for this purpose; to connect with like minded and not only that, you can:
Chat (including general chat room)
Blog about your day to day activities
Buy and sell (list your business with review and ratings from your customers)
Read News about your industry
Post Job and find Job
Post Event and Book Event
And many more.
If you are ready to lend a helping hand or ready to receive help from people, Visit www.startuppreneur.com.ng to register

Beeing an Entrepreneur is not easy, after looking for marketable idea, planning and market research follows then sourcing for capital and hiring Begin. If the entrepreneur is lucky he or she will be able to move to stage two called Business building.
Trying any possible means to get customers, sometimes entrepreneur will found their target customers another time it might not be so, driving the business to its end.
Entrepreneur is a call and a journey, sorrounded by failure and success, that's why Entrepreneur is not for the faint hearted or what do you want to say to someone that lost about 2000 birds to Newcastle Disease Virus or an Importer that lost million worth of goods to Custom Officers.
Entrepreneur is hard, it is not advisable to go it alone. Why don't you associate with the like minded, people that can relate with your story; your failure and success.
Startuppreneur.com.ng was created for this purpose; to connect with like minded and not only that, you can:
Chat (including general chat room)
Blog about your day to day activities
Buy and sell (list your business with review and ratings from your customers)
Read News about your industry
Post Job and find Job
Post Event and Book Event
And many more.
If you are ready to lend a helping hand or ready to receive help from people, Visit www.startuppreneur.com.ng to register

9jaTrillionaire:
Nice design
I suggest you run it as a blog and a forum for entrepreneurs while making commissions from it
Good business idea bro
Meanwhile, also learn programming
If you can




Kudos

Thanks

Hi

Last year I notice some problem in Ecommerce sector. So I did my market research and find out it was a big problem that can lead to something.

I've created the prototype with Microsoft Word, but I couldn't find a cofounder.

Then this year I stumbled upon WordPress and created a forum for Entrepreneur.

https://startuppreneur.com.ng

First

I want you to rate the website.

I want to know if it is something I can labour on. I don't want to spend my time on rubbish.

Second

Should I leave it and focus on the idea(I'm starting to learn programming)

How can I withdraw money from Payonneer since Kuda us no more working?

Paystack; a payment platform that helps buyers and sellers to send and receive money respectively, did not come alive out of wishes, it was from the hard work and experience of two Babcock alumni.

Paystack story is a story of opportunity meet preparation.

Who are the founders of Paystack

Paystack Founder 1: Shola Akinlade


Shola Akinlade is not like our typical founders, he didn’t school abroad neither did he accumulate degree, he is just a normal man; who was born and brought up in Nigeria, Lagos to be precise.

He attended St. Gregory’s College to pursue Science, there after he obtain a degree in Computer Science from Babcock University, Nigeria.

He worked in Heineken for 2 years, before he opt out to develop Precurio; an open source project that helps Organisation.

It was during this time that he started working for bank as a freelancer, there he saw the problem faced by bank in sending and receiving money from abroad.

Paystack Founder 2: Ezra Olubi


Ezra Olubi is also deferent in his own way, he is not the type of business man we read about in school.

He likes to keep his nail long and painted with colour that matches his lipstick. Most times is unconventional life often put him in confrontation with Police.

Ezra Olubi was born on November, 1986, in Ibadan, Oyo state. He attended Babcock University, where he met Shola Akinlade.

Career

Ezra Olubi has also worked as a freelancer and in Companies like;

North Ocean Logistics and Solution, as web developer.

As Chief Technology Officer of Jobberman

Alexander Haring Ltd, as Director

Pre paystack
Paystack started when Sola Akinlabi was faced with the problem of receiving and transferring money in and out of Africa.

Then, he was working with banks, so he was well aware that banks have a lot on their hands, it would be difficult for them to tackle the gigantic problem of Continental payment.

What of company like Stripe, Payoneer, and other America payment platform, can’t they come to Nigeria to solve it?

I’m sure Sola Akinlabi would have thought about this before paystack was launch, If we can analyse African startup very well, we will find out that it is hard for startup coming from abroad to excel in our ecosystem without having Native as part of their founding team.

Doing business in Africa is hard, but Natives has some edge over Americans and Europeans.

Sorry for the little digression.

After carrying out problem/Solution fit he reached out to Ezra Olubi his long time friend. Ezra Olubi and Sola Akinlabi were tight friend back in Babcock, they met during programing meet up in Babcock.

Yeah your guess is right

Shola Akinlabi is a Programmer

Together they tackle the problem, writing code and doing customer research. At a point it look like everything they’ve been building will crumble, when they can’t raise another seed round.

But luck shine on them as they were accepted into Famous and most difficult to enter Y C Combinator.

It was during their stay in YC that they perfect their business model and raised enough money that would last them till another round.

Getting into YC gave Paystack a name in Africa and Abroad.


List of Paystack investors

Venture Capitals and Incubators

Y Combinator
Tencent Holdings
Singularity Investments
Comcast Ventures

Angel investors

Abasiama Idaresit
Dr Ola Brown
Jason Njoku
Kola Aina
Olumide Soyombo
Sudeep Ramnani
Tom Stafford
Gbenga Oyebode
Wale Ayeni

Acquisition

Paystack was acquired by Stripe in 2020 at a valuation of $200m

Paystack Networth/Valuation

Currently Paystack is Value at $200m+

Paystack Website address

www.Paystack.com



https://startuppreneur.com.ng/

Paystack; a payment platform that helps buyers and sellers to send and receive money respectively, did not come alive out of wishes, it was from the hard work and experience of two Babcock alumni.

Paystack story is a story of opportunity meet preparation.

Who are the founders of Paystack

Paystack Founder 1: Shola Akinlade


Shola Akinlade is not like our typical founders, he didn’t school abroad neither did he accumulate degree, he is just a normal man; who was born and brought up in Nigeria, Lagos to be precise.

He attended St. Gregory’s College to pursue Science, there after he obtain a degree in Computer Science from Babcock University, Nigeria.

He worked in Heineken for 2 years, before he opt out to develop Precurio; an open source project that helps Organisation.

It was during this time that he started working for bank as a freelancer, there he saw the problem faced by bank in sending and receiving money from abroad.

Paystack Founder 2: Ezra Olubi


Ezra Olubi is also deferent in his own way, he is not the type of business man we read about in school.

He likes to keep his nail long and painted with colour that matches his lipstick. Most times is unconventional life often put him in confrontation with Police.

Ezra Olubi was born on November, 1986, in Ibadan, Oyo state. He attended Babcock University, where he met Shola Akinlade.

Career

Ezra Olubi has also worked as a freelancer and in Companies like;

North Ocean Logistics and Solution, as web developer.

As Chief Technology Officer of Jobberman

Alexander Haring Ltd, as Director

Pre paystack
Paystack started when Sola Akinlabi was faced with the problem of receiving and transferring money in and out of Africa.

Then, he was working with banks, so he was well aware that banks have a lot on their hands, it would be difficult for them to tackle the gigantic problem of Continental payment.

What of company like Stripe, Payoneer, and other America payment platform, can’t they come to Nigeria to solve it?

I’m sure Sola Akinlabi would have thought about this before paystack was launch, If we can analyse African startup very well, we will find out that it is hard for startup coming from abroad to excel in our ecosystem without having Native as part of their founding team.

Doing business in Africa is hard, but Natives has some edge over Americans and Europeans.

Sorry for the little digression.

After carrying out problem/Solution fit he reached out to Ezra Olubi his long time friend. Ezra Olubi and Sola Akinlabi were tight friend back in Babcock, they met during programing meet up in Babcock.

Yeah your guess is right

Shola Akinlabi is a Programmer

Together they tackle the problem, writing code and doing customer research. At a point it look like everything they’ve been building will crumble, when they can’t raise another seed round.

But luck shine on them as they were accepted into Famous and most difficult to enter Y C Combinator.

It was during their stay in YC that they perfect their business model and raised enough money that would last them till another round.

Getting into YC gave Paystack a name in Africa and Abroad.


List of Paystack investors

Venture Capitals and Incubators

Y Combinator
Tencent Holdings
Singularity Investments
Comcast Ventures

Angel investors

Abasiama Idaresit
Dr Ola Brown
Jason Njoku
Kola Aina
Olumide Soyombo
Sudeep Ramnani
Tom Stafford
Gbenga Oyebode
Wale Ayeni

Acquisition

Paystack was acquired by Stripe in 2020 at a valuation of $200m

Paystack Networth/Valuation

Currently Paystack is Value at $200m+

Paystack Website address

www.Paystack.com



https://startuppreneur.com.ng/

Out of 100% of startup in the world, 90% will fail. Though there is no particular research carry out in Africa, the estimation of startup that will fail in their first five year is more than 90%.

Why ??
Before we go into the “why”, I want you to have it in mind that startup is an experiment and experiment have only two option; to fail or succeed. While startup needs many reason to succeed it only need one reason to fail.

Below are the different reason startup fail in Nigeria

Problem/solution fit
Some entrepreneur just jump to solve a problem without carrying out proper research.

Can the problem be solved?

Can the solution be scale?

Are they going to pay for the solution at profitable price?

These and many question should be asked and answers before entrepreneurs can burn their night on the solution.

Some problem may look big, but getting to solve it, you will notice that the problem is not really affecting a lot of people.

Entrepreneur should make sure the problem they are about to solve is really affecting people and not itching them. In fact it is advice to solve problem that you yourself have encountered.

How to find start-up ideas in Nigeria

How to build your team



Product/Market fit
Here is another problem
This is one of the major reason startup fail in Nigeria. May be it is naivety or wrong information that make entrepreneur think that if they build their product people will turn up.

They’ve forgotten that they are not building business, it is startup.

Wait, let define startup

According to Steve Blank, “startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model”

In business you have an already cleared path to follow, but in startup you have to find it yourself by iterating your product constantly to what your customer want.

Forget about the loving what you are creating or your business model. You need to create product for the consumer not you.

Failure to do so result in many startup failure, because the only customer they will be abel to onboard is their family and friends.

Scaling
Scaling is tricky, it is hard to know when to scale or not and the most difficult part of it is that, no body is in position to tell you, they can only advice you. It is your business, nobody know it better than you.

To escape failure that accompany Scaling

Make sure you have problem/solution fit.

Make sure you have Product/market fit.

Can you employ quality workers as fast as possible.

Make sure you are loaded with Fund.



If the coast is not cleared, please don’t go.



Fund
Haaa
Fund raising is the test of entrepreneur. It is fund raising that shows the ability of an entrepreneur.

We all know there is scarcity of fund especially in Africa, but entrepreneur should Know what he has dabble into, you can just use that as excuse, you know before hand it’s going to be hard so look for fund Any where.

To start a startup it’s advice that entrepreneur should have some money in reserve at least that can push the startup to product market fit, because no investor will back you in Nigeria without having product/market fit , unless you have a proven record.



Team
In term of team, startup must get it right at the beginning or else its doom to fail.

People with like minded should come together to do startup, people that have almost the same view about life, because things will go awry along the way, it is only if synergy exist between team that startup will succeed.

If wrong team were the order, it can result in chaos, imaging having lazy bun as team member in a startup, it will slow down the progress of the startup and may eventually kill it, exactly what would have happen to Twitter.

[url]How to find Cofounder in Nigeria[/url]

I thought I can sack my Cofounder/ team?

You can’t sack your team member without uproar in fact , Team that begin startup together are not just employee, they are cofounder.

Timing
Before YouTube, Facebook was born there were failed ones. They failed not because their product was not good enough, but because the time was not right. In 1990s no body want to waste a lot of money watching online video and likewise no body want to spend fortune uploading video.

One of the startup that know the importance of timing is Netflix. Netflix began as DVD rentals, they would mail DVD to to their consumer, though they have a vision; to show cinema to people online, they couldn’t do this because the time was not right. So they waited for more than 10 years, when people are ready to watch videos online.



Poor customer service
While startup is small compare to well establish companies, Consumer don’t care, they want to be treated the same way they were treated by large companies.

“Customers are your boss” this phrase is not always the same for startup, they believe they can always get another customer if one leave, since they have enough of venture capital money to burn.

One angry customer represent 100, so if you make 1 angry have it in mind that 100 of your customer are dissatisfied with you.

In the early stage of startup, let part of the customer support be done by the technician, this techniques has worked countless time, tech people can easily decode problem that consumer have and quickly do something about it.

Unlike Normal Customer support that would have to report to already tired technician. Most of the time technician are addicted to whatever they are doing currently so stopping them is asking for trouble.

Market size
This one makes me laugh a lot.
Many entrepreneur are still falling into the erroneous assumption; that Nigeria is a large market, since she houses more than 200 million people.

What they never ask themselves is how much is purchasing power or GDP per Capital of these population.

It might surprise them that they are dealing with 10 million potential customer and 5 million Total addressable Market. (I might have exaggerate).
To not fall into this make sure your figure is correct when making your business plan.

Lastly culture
Culture of a startup should be defined at the early stage. Let every worker and employee know what your startup stand for. Do not employ people if they are not going to fit into your culture even if they are very good, they might break your company at the long run.

[url]Startuppreneur.com.ng[/url]

Out of 100% of startup in the world, 90% will fail. Though there is no particular research carry out in Africa, the estimation of startup that will fail in their first five year is more than 90%.

Why ??
Before we go into the “why”, I want you to have it in mind that startup is an experiment and experiment have only two option; to fail or succeed. While startup needs many reason to succeed it only need one reason to fail.

Below are the different reason startup fail in Nigeria

Problem/solution fit
Some entrepreneur just jump to solve a problem without carrying out proper research.

Can the problem be solved?

Can the solution be scale?

Are they going to pay for the solution at profitable price?

These and many question should be asked and answers before entrepreneurs can burn their night on the solution.

Some problem may look big, but getting to solve it, you will notice that the problem is not really affecting a lot of people.

Entrepreneur should make sure the problem they are about to solve is really affecting people and not itching them. In fact it is advice to solve problem that you yourself have encountered.

How to find start-up ideas in Nigeria

How to build your team



Product/Market fit
Here is another problem
This is one of the major reason startup fail in Nigeria. May be it is naivety or wrong information that make entrepreneur think that if they build their product people will turn up.

They’ve forgotten that they are not building business, it is startup.

Wait, let define startup

According to Steve Blank, “startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model”

In business you have an already cleared path to follow, but in startup you have to find it yourself by iterating your product constantly to what your customer want.

Forget about the loving what you are creating or your business model. You need to create product for the consumer not you.

Failure to do so result in many startup failure, because the only customer they will be abel to onboard is their family and friends.

Scaling
Scaling is tricky, it is hard to know when to scale or not and the most difficult part of it is that, no body is in position to tell you, they can only advice you. It is your business, nobody know it better than you.

To escape failure that accompany Scaling

Make sure you have problem/solution fit.

Make sure you have Product/market fit.

Can you employ quality workers as fast as possible.

Make sure you are loaded with Fund.



If the coast is not cleared, please don’t go.



Fund
Haaa
Fund raising is the test of entrepreneur. It is fund raising that shows the ability of an entrepreneur.

We all know there is scarcity of fund especially in Africa, but entrepreneur should Know what he has dabble into, you can just use that as excuse, you know before hand it’s going to be hard so look for fund Any where.

To start a startup it’s advice that entrepreneur should have some money in reserve at least that can push the startup to product market fit, because no investor will back you in Nigeria without having product/market fit , unless you have a proven record.



Team
In term of team, startup must get it right at the beginning or else its doom to fail.

People with like minded should come together to do startup, people that have almost the same view about life, because things will go awry along the way, it is only if synergy exist between team that startup will succeed.

If wrong team were the order, it can result in chaos, imaging having lazy bun as team member in a startup, it will slow down the progress of the startup and may eventually kill it, exactly what would have happen to Twitter.

[url]How to find Cofounder in Nigeria[/url]

I thought I can sack my Cofounder/ team?

You can’t sack your team member without uproar in fact , Team that begin startup together are not just employee, they are cofounder.

Timing
Before YouTube, Facebook was born there were failed ones. They failed not because their product was not good enough, but because the time was not right. In 1990s no body want to waste a lot of money watching online video and likewise no body want to spend fortune uploading video.

One of the startup that know the importance of timing is Netflix. Netflix began as DVD rentals, they would mail DVD to to their consumer, though they have a vision; to show cinema to people online, they couldn’t do this because the time was not right. So they waited for more than 10 years, when people are ready to watch videos online.



Poor customer service
While startup is small compare to well establish companies, Consumer don’t care, they want to be treated the same way they were treated by large companies.

“Customers are your boss” this phrase is not always the same for startup, they believe they can always get another customer if one leave, since they have enough of venture capital money to burn.

One angry customer represent 100, so if you make 1 angry have it in mind that 100 of your customer are dissatisfied with you.

In the early stage of startup, let part of the customer support be done by the technician, this techniques has worked countless time, tech people can easily decode problem that consumer have and quickly do something about it.

Unlike Normal Customer support that would have to report to already tired technician. Most of the time technician are addicted to whatever they are doing currently so stopping them is asking for trouble.

Market size
This one makes me laugh a lot.
Many entrepreneur are still falling into the erroneous assumption; that Nigeria is a large market, since she houses more than 200 million people.

What they never ask themselves is how much is purchasing power or GDP per Capital of these population.

It might surprise them that they are dealing with 10 million potential customer and 5 million Total addressable Market. (I might have exaggerate).
To not fall into this make sure your figure is correct when making your business plan.

Lastly culture
Culture of a startup should be defined at the early stage. Let every worker and employee know what your startup stand for. Do not employ people if they are not going to fit into your culture even if they are very good, they might break your company at the long run.

[url]Startuppreneur.com.ng[/url]

Out of 100% of startup in the world, 90% will fail. Though there is no particular research carry out in Africa, the estimation of startup that will fail in their first five year is more than 90%.

Why ??
Before we go into the “why”, I want you to have it in mind that startup is an experiment and experiment have only two option; to fail or succeed. While startup needs many reason to succeed it only need one reason to fail.

Below are the different reason startup fail in Nigeria

Problem/solution fit
Some entrepreneur just jump to solve a problem without carrying out proper research.

Can the problem be solved?

Can the solution be scale?

Are they going to pay for the solution at profitable price?

These and many question should be asked and answers before entrepreneurs can burn their night on the solution.

Some problem may look big, but getting to solve it, you will notice that the problem is not really affecting a lot of people.

Entrepreneur should make sure the problem they are about to solve is really affecting people and not itching them. In fact it is advice to solve problem that you yourself have encountered.

How to find start-up ideas in Nigeria

How to build your team



Product/Market fit
Here is another problem
This is one of the major reason startup fail in Nigeria. May be it is naivety or wrong information that make entrepreneur think that if they build their product people will turn up.

They’ve forgotten that they are not building business, it is startup.

Wait, let define startup

According to Steve Blank, “startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model”

In business you have an already cleared path to follow, but in startup you have to find it yourself by iterating your product constantly to what your customer want.

Forget about the loving what you are creating or your business model. You need to create product for the consumer not you.

Failure to do so result in many startup failure, because the only customer they will be abel to onboard is their family and friends.

Scaling
Scaling is tricky, it is hard to know when to scale or not and the most difficult part of it is that, no body is in position to tell you, they can only advice you. It is your business, nobody know it better than you.

To escape failure that accompany Scaling

Make sure you have problem/solution fit.

Make sure you have Product/market fit.

Can you employ quality workers as fast as possible.

Make sure you are loaded with Fund.



If the coast is not cleared, please don’t go.



Fund
Haaa
Fund raising is the test of entrepreneur. It is fund raising that shows the ability of an entrepreneur.

We all know there is scarcity of fund especially in Africa, but entrepreneur should Know what he has dabble into, you can just use that as excuse, you know before hand it’s going to be hard so look for fund Any where.

To start a startup it’s advice that entrepreneur should have some money in reserve at least that can push the startup to product market fit, because no investor will back you in Nigeria without having product/market fit , unless you have a proven record.



Team
In term of team, startup must get it right at the beginning or else its doom to fail.

People with like minded should come together to do startup, people that have almost the same view about life, because things will go awry along the way, it is only if synergy exist between team that startup will succeed.

If wrong team were the order, it can result in chaos, imaging having lazy bun as team member in a startup, it will slow down the progress of the startup and may eventually kill it, exactly what would have happen to Twitter.

[url]How to find Cofounder in Nigeria[/url]

I thought I can sack my Cofounder/ team?

You can’t sack your team member without uproar in fact , Team that begin startup together are not just employee, they are cofounder.

Timing
Before YouTube, Facebook was born there were failed ones. They failed not because their product was not good enough, but because the time was not right. In 1990s no body want to waste a lot of money watching online video and likewise no body want to spend fortune uploading video.

One of the startup that know the importance of timing is Netflix. Netflix began as DVD rentals, they would mail DVD to to their consumer, though they have a vision; to show cinema to people online, they couldn’t do this because the time was not right. So they waited for more than 10 years, when people are ready to watch videos online.



Poor customer service
While startup is small compare to well establish companies, Consumer don’t care, they want to be treated the same way they were treated by large companies.

“Customers are your boss” this phrase is not always the same for startup, they believe they can always get another customer if one leave, since they have enough of venture capital money to burn.

One angry customer represent 100, so if you make 1 angry have it in mind that 100 of your customer are dissatisfied with you.

In the early stage of startup, let part of the customer support be done by the technician, this techniques has worked countless time, tech people can easily decode problem that consumer have and quickly do something about it.

Unlike Normal Customer support that would have to report to already tired technician. Most of the time technician are addicted to whatever they are doing currently so stopping them is asking for trouble.

Market size
This one makes me laugh a lot.
Many entrepreneur are still falling into the erroneous assumption; that Nigeria is a large market, since she houses more than 200 million people.

What they never ask themselves is how much is purchasing power or GDP per Capital of these population.

It might surprise them that they are dealing with 10 million potential customer and 5 million Total addressable Market. (I might have exaggerate).
To not fall into this make sure your figure is correct when making your business plan.

Lastly culture
Culture of a startup should be defined at the early stage. Let every worker and employee know what your startup stand for. Do not employ people if they are not going to fit into your culture even if they are very good, they might break your company at the long run.

[url]Startuppreneur.com.ng[/url]

Finding a co-founder is hard for anyone in the world; if you are in Nigeria it is harder. The reason is not far fetch, if you are living in Nigeria you will know how untrustworthy we can be when the issue of money is involve.

Not only that, most Nigerian has given up on government, taking entrepreneur as their safe haven, though this is good, it has made Nigeria lose the spirit of team work that those who work in government or private company enjoy.

Nigerian would rather start their own company than working together with a Co-founder.

If you are a business man looking for technical Co-founder it is more and more harder, unless you have a lot of money store up somewhere, As you are spending money on your startup, you will also be spending money to take care of your founder; because they will be broke, of course you should know how tough the Economy is.

Those that will not take money from you would be engaged with their own startup.



That been said,

How do I navigate all this to find a co-founder?

The best time to plant tree is last year

Successful Co-founder are usually friends from the beginning, they didn’t become co-founder because of Startup. They live, play and eat together even before they hatch Their Startup egg.

The likes of Larry Page and Sergey Brin(Google), Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne (Apple), Bill Gates and Paul Allen(Microsoft), Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi(Paystack), became friends before thinking of startup.

If you are young, circle yourself with like-minded; people that have in mind what you want to do in future. If you want to start a startup, circle yourself with programmers, designers, writers, marketers, of course you will have to learn one of this skill in other to attract them.

The best time to plant a tree is last year, the other time is now.



Tech event

Perhaps you have nail an idea while bathing, the idea is perfect, it’s going to be a unicorn, you are sure of it, but there is a problem it require coding and you are bad at it, you hate anything that start with html or end with script.

Don’t worry there is still a way out.

Go online and search for tech event in your locality, attend it with the purpose of finding a co-founder. Don’t just go there to warm their chair, Network by pitching to different people.

Though you might find luck at first, it is usually after 5-10 event before you nail a Co-founder.

Click here to see Tech event in your area (It will take you to another blog)

Higher Institution

This is applicable if you are still in school or graduated not long ago. Ask people around you, there is usually someone among your friend that can introduce you to a potential Co-founder.

If you are impatient, go to the faculty that breed the kind of Co-founder you want, launch your lone search party by asking people one by one. That would be a hard way I agree, but you’ve got to find a co-founder, anything should be done.

Co-working space or Tech Hub

Locate a Tech hub in your locale, if you find it, go there every day to work, even if you do not have anything to do, play with your Laptop. There is high percentage that you will find a potential Co-founder that would engage you.

You might even be acquire into another startup.

List of Tech Hub in Nigeria are:

Enspire Hub

Blue Hub

KAD ICT Hub

CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE



Matchmaking site

There are many Matchmaking sites that can match you with a co-founder, search for these site on google and you might be surprised with the number of Co-founder looking for someone like you.

If you eventually found co-founder through matchmaking, be cautious; do not reveal all your plan to the person or people, until you are sure of his or her loyalty.

List of Matchmaking site in Nigeria are:

CoFoundersLab

vc4a.com



Change your environment

Sometimes what you need to get a Co-founder is leaving your environment, some environments repel skill people. Environment that has irregular supply of light, water or any other social amenities will surely lack potential co-founder.



People you have work with

If you are the type that keep contact list of those you have work with in the past, this is the time to look through it. You might find that old friend who fit in to who you are looking for.



Build it

This the hardest

If at the end of everything, you still can’t get Co-founder, then it is time to build it. If you have money; build an MVP by outsourcing it to Development Company.

If you don’t have money, you will have to learn coding long enough for you to hack MVP together. With some traction from your MVP potential Cofounder will troop to your side.

https://startuppreneur.com.ng

Finding a co-founder is hard for anyone in the world; if you are in Nigeria it is harder. The reason is not far fetch, if you are living in Nigeria you will know how untrustworthy we can be when the issue of money is involve.

Not only that, most Nigerian has given up on government, taking entrepreneur as their safe haven, though this is good, it has made Nigeria lose the spirit of team work that those who work in government or private company enjoy.

Nigerian would rather start their own company than working together with a Co-founder.

If you are a business man looking for technical Co-founder it is more and more harder, unless you have a lot of money store up somewhere, As you are spending money on your startup, you will also be spending money to take care of your founder; because they will be broke, of course you should know how tough the Economy is.

Those that will not take money from you would be engaged with their own startup.



That been said,

How do I navigate all this to find a co-founder?

The best time to plant tree is last year

Successful Co-founder are usually friends from the beginning, they didn’t become co-founder because of Startup. They live, play and eat together even before they hatch Their Startup egg.

The likes of Larry Page and Sergey Brin(Google), Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne (Apple), Bill Gates and Paul Allen(Microsoft), Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi(Paystack), became friends before thinking of startup.

If you are young, circle yourself with like-minded; people that have in mind what you want to do in future. If you want to start a startup, circle yourself with programmers, designers, writers, marketers, of course you will have to learn one of this skill in other to attract them.

The best time to plant a tree is last year, the other time is now.



Tech event

Perhaps you have nail an idea while bathing, the idea is perfect, it’s going to be a unicorn, you are sure of it, but there is a problem it require coding and you are bad at it, you hate anything that start with html or end with script.

Don’t worry there is still a way out.

Go online and search for tech event in your locality, attend it with the purpose of finding a co-founder. Don’t just go there to warm their chair, Network by pitching to different people.

Though you might find luck at first, it is usually after 5-10 event before you nail a Co-founder.

Click here to see Tech event in your area (It will take you to another blog)

Higher Institution

This is applicable if you are still in school or graduated not long ago. Ask people around you, there is usually someone among your friend that can introduce you to a potential Co-founder.

If you are impatient, go to the faculty that breed the kind of Co-founder you want, launch your lone search party by asking people one by one. That would be a hard way I agree, but you’ve got to find a co-founder, anything should be done.

Co-working space or Tech Hub

Locate a Tech hub in your locale, if you find it, go there every day to work, even if you do not have anything to do, play with your Laptop. There is high percentage that you will find a potential Co-founder that would engage you.

You might even be acquire into another startup.

List of Tech Hub in Nigeria are:

Enspire Hub

Blue Hub

KAD ICT Hub

CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE



Matchmaking site

There are many Matchmaking sites that can match you with a co-founder, search for these site on google and you might be surprised with the number of Co-founder looking for someone like you.

If you eventually found co-founder through matchmaking, be cautious; do not reveal all your plan to the person or people, until you are sure of his or her loyalty.

List of Matchmaking site in Nigeria are:

CoFoundersLab

vc4a.com



Change your environment

Sometimes what you need to get a Co-founder is leaving your environment, some environments repel skill people. Environment that has irregular supply of light, water or any other social amenities will surely lack potential co-founder.



People you have work with

If you are the type that keep contact list of those you have work with in the past, this is the time to look through it. You might find that old friend who fit in to who you are looking for.



Build it

This the hardest

If at the end of everything, you still can’t get Co-founder, then it is time to build it. If you have money; build an MVP by outsourcing it to Development Company.

If you don’t have money, you will have to learn coding long enough for you to hack MVP together. With some traction from your MVP potential Cofounder will troop to your side.

https://startuppreneur.com.ng

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I have sketch the prototype on paper according to question and answer moment (a form of MVP) I had with the user, just for the developer to code it then, will would start customer validation.
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