2021 was arguably my most difficult year personally but also my best year as an entrepreneur. With this contradictory experience came a lot of lessons. Here are 10 I find useful to note and share. Understand that there are very little guarantees in life. In-fact I can count only 2…

Much has been rightfully made of the gender gap in VC funded startups in Africa. >80% of VC funding has accrued to male-only founding teams as illustrated by Max from “The big deal.” This data often gets the retort, at least on social media, of ‘fund more women’. This is…

Health technology in Nigeria has been bedeviled with poor adoption over the years. Early companies in the space started in the EHR space and targeted health providers. Companies such as Saboath Technologies and integrated medics, who had an early start in the EHR business are either now in zombie mode…

First published on July 13 2017 on the Digital Health Nigeria website. Editor’s note — This is an interview with a founder of a now-failed health tech startup meditell, funded by a Lagos-based incubator and was active between 2014 and 2015. He gives plenty of insights and lessons to learn…

Back in December of 2018, I got tired of the high number of new telemedicine startups that kept launching in Nigeria. This was mostly because their predecessors had either pivoted, closed shop or became zombies. This lead to me writing a digital health newsletter with the title, ‘One too many’…

It’s now becoming a tradition at the end of every year and the start of the next for me to look over the preceding year in African health tech and suggest some trends for the next year. You may review the last 2 editions here and here. As this year…

Back in the summer, Bayo and I were over in Austin, Texas for the prestigious technology startup accelerator program, Techstars. We’d gotten accepted on the back of the work we were doing with wellahealth to make healthcare more affordable for the average African. …

In 2012, Savita, a young pregnant Indian lady attended a hospital in the west of Ireland. She’d presented with back pain and was subsequently found to be miscarrying. After some time in hospital, she began to shiver, shake and vomit. She subsequently collapsed and was found to have an infection…

Early on when I was learning about building a sales force, one of the prominent advice I read was to never hire just one salesperson. When you hire just one person, it’s difficult to know the true reason for your sales figures. Is it the person you hired or is…