Oluwatobi Soyombo

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2015

Catch them young: Raising the next generation of techies

I woke up this morning to prepare a curriculum for an NGO that want to raise girls and women in technology. As I put each bit of the topics together, memories of my early days flooded my head. I’ll…

2014

Marketplace choices and sacrifices

Entrepreneurship is all about choices. From the choice of the type of venture to start to everything else in the life of such venture – employee recruitment, business model etc. For every choice yo…

On early adopters

In the life of a startup, nothing trumps getting as much early revenue as possible. Among other things, it boosts the confidence of the founders. However, getting the first set of users – what we a…

Introducing 1Plify.com

I am delighted to announce the launch of my baby venture, 1Plify.com. I co-founded with two of my friends, Tola and Babafemi. We’ve had the idea for some time, but wrote the first code sometimes in…

Understanding the Indian consumer market

Disclosure: This is not an attack on Indians. I love Indians a lot. Everyone around me know that. I love India. If I don’t I won’t make it a home for the past two years. It only makes business sens…

Inspiring the next generation

I wrote my first full book at age 18 and struggled hard to publish it at 19. After so much delay by the publisher and several hard things I went through, the book was finally published. Immediately…

A school for the rest of us

I have been a big victim of an educational system that is totally screwed up before I was born. While I did graduate from the University with a profitable business,  I graduated from a University t…

Mumbai: My first impressions

I arrived Mumbai on Friday. It's too early to make conclusions, but so far here are 5 quick random impressions about this historic city. Mumbai is hotter than Bangalore. For the first time in a long while, I saw water come out of my skin - sweat. Oh no! As...

A cheque for the hustle

First, it started with an idea in the head. You wrote it down and developed a documentation for it to ensure all the pieces fit together, at least on paper. Then, you started thinking of the best w…

Fast, Forward

Last Saturday, I walked into Sapna Books in Bangalore to ‘burn’ some cash on books as usual. Among the books I picked was Sott Duffy’s “The Critical 90 days from idea to mar…