Category Archives: Startup

Paga: A mobile payment startup in Nigeria

I recently ran into this interesting article from Forbes highlighting Paga a Nigerian money transfer service startup. Paga launched in 2009 and has a current user base of 32000 users and $1.6M processing volume so far, attracting even US investors in the person of Tim Draper. Paga’s founder, Tayo Oviosu explains that there is a currentContinue reading “Paga: A mobile payment startup in Nigeria”

Beginning Entrepreneurship

It’s not easy and I just started. It’s intimidating and exciting like a blank canvas. It feels like I am standing at the edge of a plane or a precipice looking down and appreciating or dreading the free fall. The difference is whether I have a parachute or not, and whether that parachute will indeedContinue reading “Beginning Entrepreneurship”