Shola & Ezra Co-Founders of Paystack. If you play in the tech community, then you'll definitely know Ycombinator (for those who don't it's a tech accelerator in the United States) , they never accepted any Nigerian tech company until this genius; Shola Akinlade CEO of Paystack ( paystack is an online payment processing solution, if you've never heard of them you need help, we also use them over here at iFixng.com ) managed to break that jinks which eventually opened Michael Seibel's eyes to see what we've got over here , real genius I must say!. Shola gave us the privilege to take a look at what his paystack application looked like with commentary and backstory which I'll like to share with you today, hey Shola if you're reading this, thanks a lot.  Paystack’s YC Application Company name: Paystack Company url, if any: https://www.paystack.co/ We launched with paystack.co, and it was about a year later that I was able to buy the .co

I slept like a baby, thanks to the creative minds of geniuses who created Light, Air Conditioners, a Bed to Sleep on, they all disrupted the way things were done or achieved and I'm very grateful to them, this entire post is dedicated to innovators, founders, creative minds who work tirelessly to ensure things are much more simplified in the world  today. Thank You! Don't Just Create, Disrupt, you'll be loved for it. Through out my venture to create  iFixng.com   (if you haven't hired artisans or handymen via my platform and you live in Lagos, you have sinned) , I'm always asked one simple question, which is; "Why iFix?, Whats the motivation?", the simple truth remains that; my love for the blue collar sector is what drives me to do what I do, changing the status quo on how handymen and artisans are perceived and engaged, redefining the future of work. This is my motivation, the very reason I wake up every day excited to work with my team at

It's Monday, the hustle and bustle has commenced in the streets of Lagos, Just stepping outside to get gas at the closest filling station to fuel my generator I got stuck in a 30 mins traffic, various thoughts immediately started swarming through my head; could this be startup founders running around seeking investors? (lol crazy right? I thought so too).   Immediately, I knew what I was going to talk about today. Just before you approach Investors, chill and take a few steps back So here's the deal, as startup founders we all have peculiar problems we're very passionate about solving, it often starts with an idea and then a prototype or MVP of some sort, which in turn leads to beta testing (private and/or public) and eventually market roll out. These different phases often require funds especially if you don't have all the necessary skills to achieve this. In most western parts of the world (after watching silicon valley series of course, lol) , Investors of

I woke up today feeling more loved than ever; with the numerous amount of messages and emails I received, at this point it struck me; it was the "Valentine's Day Celebration.  As curious as I'm always to see Nigerian's reactions during festivities, I logged on to my twitter account (@geraldokonkwo_ looking forward to meeting you on twitter 😆) to see what's going on with 'Twitter Nigeria' and I stumbled upon this mind blowing tweet (look below) from Michael Seibel (founder of Ycombinator) ; Here's a tweet from Michael's Seibel founder; of YCombinator What struck me more was the part where he said "helping each other is a core value in the tech Startup world". For some reason I was really excited that our 'egbons'  (meaning elders in Yoruba language) in the Tech Industry are really excited about helping younger startup founders succeed, but my excitement was shortly met with a sad realization & reminder that Michae