Spot on 👏👏
You and your business are two separate entities. So the same way you are doing everything possible to make sure your business grows, that is the same way you need to do everything possible to make sure you survive financially until your business can sustain you.
Unpopular opinion: Keep your income, Build your startup. Do both until the business can pay you.
One of the biggest mistakes aspiring founders make is abandoning their source of income too early. Your startup needs time, capital, and patience to grow.
What’s your take?
Today, I officially received my PhD degree award!
What a journey it has been, filled with challenges, growth, resilience, sleepless nights, research, prayers, and unwavering support from family, best supervisors, friends, and everyone who believed in me.
I am grateful to God for strength and grace throughout this journey. To anyone pursuing a dream: keep going, even when the road feels long.
Today I proudly say I did it! Dr. Rose Ene Patrick Amali 🌺🌺
I’m open to collaborating with founders who are building meaningful solutions and looking for creative, thoughtful, result-driven, business-minded partners to join their team.
If you need a co-founder, strategic partner, or someone willing to contribute for equity, I’d love to connect and explore how we can build something impactful together.
Providus has a separate app for transferring money and another one for managing your cards. 😂😂😂
UBA also has at least 2 apps that do exactly the same thing. Neither is good.
WTF are their engineers doing????
Traditional banks need to do better.
Your last month at a company is not meant to be your worst-performing month. It just ruins everything you've built in the months and years before, and leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
I understand this behaviour for people who don't mind burning bridges.
As founders, we like to interact with an industry the way we wish it would work and not the way it currently does. (Maybe that’s why we like to “disrupt”)😒
For instance, you’re trying to raise from VCs, you don’t have undeniable metrics (read $50k MRR, growing 10% MoM), you don’t have Ex FAANG on your bio, even internship, you’ve not sold a startup even if it’s all stocks, you’re not an AI engineer, you don’t live in SF, your Dad’s name is not recognisable and you don’t want to build a personal brand? 🤣🤣
You have not “visibly” demonstrated anywhere that you’re exceptional and can get things done but you want the investor to invest in you cos you sent a cold email with a nice pitch deck? It’s giving “trust me, I no go lie for you”.
The industry is designed for signals and momentum. Stop interacting with it the way you wish it was about the novelty of your ideas and start leaning on your undue advantage.
I hope this helps that founder still second guessing if they need a personal brand. ❤️
This whole Gout Gout thing has made me realise that so many people have no fucking idea what an Australian is - including some Australians sadly. Australia is a nationality, not an ethniticy. The only ethnic Australians are Aboriginal. A big part of our culture, is being multicultural. Our diversity is our strength, not something that should be hated or feared. Anyone who's born in our wonderful country is an Aussie, through and through. Anyone who goes through the immigration process, does their best to fit in and earns their citizenship, is welcome and is just as Aussie as the rest of us. I am. You are. We are Australian 🇦🇺. And don't you cunts forget it!