Ahmed Sabi Abubakar, Author at Rippinit

Do VCs fail?

Exploring the Dynamics of Venture Capital Success and Failure Venture capital (VC) is a dynamic and high-risk investment landscape that fuels innovation and entrepreneurship. VCs provide essential funding and expertise to startups and early-stage companies with the aim of generating substantial returns. However, amidst the glamour of successful investments, pertinent questions arise: Do venture capitalists […]

False ideas about success, productivity, and sacrifice.

When it comes to achieving success, there are a lot of ideas floating around about what it takes to get there. One of the most pervasive is the idea that productivity and sacrifice are the key ingredients in the recipe for success. You can see this belief in various types of content with titles like […]

Can online K-12 Education scale in Africa?

Technology has driven down costs and increased the quality of work in almost every segment of economies around the world, including education. Education Technology is the term used to describe the application of technology to solve problems in education, and Africa is full of companies, or rather start-ups that place themselves in the edtech category. […]

Navigating Through a Pandemic, Startup.info Interview

Startup.info interviewed our co-founder and Director Ahmed Sabi Abubakar. The full interview can be found here.

Nigeria, real change has come

For the first time as an adult, I have witnessed the weariness of Nigerians expressed through unified protests all over the country and around the world. People of all ethnicities with a common complaint; being fed up. Fed up with a country that has no plan for its citizens, especially the younger generation who are […]

The Importance of Literacy

What is Literacy? According to Alain Buffing of Tuk Tuk, “Literacy is the ability to read, write, speak and listen in a way that allows you to communicate with others. The power of speech lies not just in the ability to read and write, but rather in a person’s capacity to apply these skills […]

Focus on Your Truth

Who Am I What is your truth? What do you stand for? What are the things you consider important, the things you can put your all in? What do you truly like to do, if we didn’t need money to function, but had to work, what would you choose to do? Most of us go […]

11 Things I Learned From Failure

We all experience setbacks in our relationships, businesses, academics and various aspects of life. There was a time failure was popularly seen as shameful, but thankfully, these days it is more often considered as a learning mechanism, especially in the business world, due to testimonies from successful people like Oprah Winfrey, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, […]

The Entrepreneurship Fad

Ok, entrepreneurship is now a trend. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It is true we need more entrepreneurs for economic growth to take place, in fact, more so in Africa than anywhere else at the moment. And to be specific, we need technology inclined entrepreneurs that’ll leverage tech to push growth […]

What is Your Why?

“He who has a why can endure anyhow” Fredrick Nietzsche. Amanda Lang and Simon Sinek are most popular for evangelizing the “why” concept through their books “The Power of Why’ and “Start with Why” respectively. They also speak about it regularly. So what is this “why” concept? It’s basically about finding out your purpose for […]

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