Part 2: Permissionless Power: How Young Black Africans Can Productize Themselves and Beat a Rigged System
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Stop Building. You Do Not Have Ten Users Who Need What You Are Making.
Three months of clean code, and the user went straight for the feature we almost deleted. Here's something the startup ecosystem doesn't say out loud often enough: a lot of technical founders are building products that nobody actually needs. The founders are talented. The engineering is
The Roadmap Is Not the Problem. You Stopped Being Sold.
Most early-stage companies in Africa do not die because the product is bad. They die when the founder gets tired, starts doubting the thing, and drifts from the reason they built it in the first place. I have watched it happen in my own work, and I have watched it
Taste Is The Moat AI Cannot Cross
AI tools made the mechanical parts of product building nearly free. What they cannot touch is the judgement that makes a product feel built for a real user in a real market. Most AI-generated products look the same. That is not a bug. It is the whole problem. Every founder
Suffering Is a Market Signal. Here Is How to Read It.
The notebook was a school exercise book, the kind you buy in a three-pack at PnP for about fifteen rand. Blue cover. Faint ruled lines. Corners curled from being opened and closed fifty times a day. It was the entire credit management system for a spaza shop in Sterkspruit, and