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If you are looking for a business model on how aggregation construct can help you, this is a real case study:  Farmcrowdy. Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. Farmcrowdy uses the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage […]

The LinkedIn feedback on my piece that Interswitch could get a bank license is deep. Many commenters noted that (1) It would compete with banks, its major clients and (2) That Interswitch should focus on making sure that customer experiences are improved noting that “decline and irrelevant debit on customers still occur and are not immediately corrected” […]

I used to write for the world. But no one cared. Then I focused on Nigeria and Africa, my network started noticing. It turns out that digital marketing has a secret sauce when you want to expand business through organic content origination. There is nothing like generic audience. In the drive to win all, you […]

I made it into Johannesburg, South Africa today. I like coming here because the cities of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria treat me fine. I am with one of my colleagues in our U.S. office. We will be spending eight days on business. My path is through Pretoria while my colleague goes through Cape Town. […]

The cloud service sector in Nigeria has been growing as companies begin to move their services and operations to the cloud. Besides the largely cost-competitiveness, cloud simplifies operations, with data consolidated more effectively. But the problem is that Nigerian cloud service providers are not getting these businesses: most Nigerian startups and companies, excluding banks, are […]