How bad do you want to be successful?
Yeah, how bad do you want to be successful? How bad do you want it? Hey, I know you’ve got dreams. I know you really want a better life in the future. Oh, well, it only takes a fool to have s…
Oluwatobi Soyombo — page 8
2013
Failing forward: The case of Celestine, tiketmobile and more
If you’ve put your ears close to the Nigerian technology community, you must have heard the latest gist about one Celestine and his startup TiketMobile. Happily for me, his case stirred up a …
Changing your life a tweet at a time
Until the emergence of twitter, we never knew we could communicate in 140 characters or less. Tweets, as short as they flow, have in numerous times led to either the promotion of personalities/bran…
The risky business of taking risks
Few weeks back, I got into a long conversation with a friend. At some point, we spoke about the kinds of businesses and investments I’ve been involved in since I began my entrepreneurship jou…
Just Google it, don’t ask me
Last Friday, I was at Startup Grind held at the gorgeous Micorosoft Research lab, Bangalore, India. As usual, several things happened there – networking etc. Of all, one of the key things tha…
Of air conditioned restaurants and government tax
This afternoon, on my way back home, the thought of having my lunch at KFC came knocking and I couldn’t resist it, for good reasons. I’ve been visiting this particular branch of KFC for some time b…
I’m going to get a lot of that money
I’ve been in search of a property for some time now (let’s save the details). So, this past week, I decided to move out of my comfort zone and really go in search of what I want. It all…
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Few minutes back , I wanted to check my post paid connection account just to be sure things are still in-tact (call it close monitoring…some telcos cheat post paid customers). First, the page…
My distasteful experience with Yepme, an Indian ecommerce site
Last Friday, I saw a suggested post Facebook about 2 Graphic Tees selling at Rs.499. I normally don’t jump at offers like this, ‘cos of my past experience with cheap things. However, th…
My sugar-free week experience
About two weeks ago, I decided to try out a new challenge – staying off processed sugar for 7 days. I didn’t want to walk the road alone, hence the post. With 5 people, we kick-started …
