In 2004, I started a group research project, as part of my MBA program, to evaluate the promise of an RFID-based information platform. My original premise was that sensor-based platforms would eventually become the next large-scale information utility, serving as a parallel information network to th
EchoVC Eco Pilot Fund I launched in partnership with Shell Foundation and UKaid to back early-stage African founders building climate and climate-adjacent solutions that raise incomes and cut emissions for smallholder farmers, transporters, and micro-entrepreneurs.
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn's founder and Chairman, wrote a great blog post on what he wished he knew before pitching VCs. Reid did an amazing job setting out the context of his pitch to Greylock and advice he would give entrepreneurs now, if he knew then, what he did now. David
Tai Solarin was a Nigerian educator, humanist, author and social critic. He was very well known in Nigeria (and I daresay Africa). Richard Carrier's essay on Tai's life and accomplishments is a good read. Tai wrote many 'controversial' and thought-inspiring pieces during his lifetime but one
