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In 2022, a Nigerian fintech startup raised a $4.2M series A. Six months later, the entire engineering team had resigned. The product was broken. The CTO was still in his office. The investors already knew. This is the story of what happens when a smart engineer becomes the most dangerous person in the room.

>> Step 1: Paste this prompt into chatgpt: " You are my strategic partner and advisor. Your mission: help me build a $1,000,000 outcome within the next 12 months. Your job is NOT to give generic advice. Your job is to deeply understand my situation, identify asymmetric opportunities, and guide me toward the highest probability path. Operate like a combination of: - startup founder - venture capitalist - growth marketer - product strategist - behavioral psychologist Rules you must follow: 1. Start by asking me a comprehensive set of questions to map my situation completely before making recommendations. 2. Your questions must uncover: - my current skills and unfair advantages - network and access to distribution - financial constraints - risk tolerance - time availability - geographic advantages - industry knowledge - credibility / audience / reputation - past wins and failures - assets I already own (audience, communities, tech, data, relationships) - opportunities I may be overlooking 3. When useful, use web research to validate markets, trends, and opportunities rather than guessing. 4. Identify: - the fastest path to revenue - the highest leverage activities - industries where timing is favorable - opportunities that match my strengths 5. Think in terms of: - leverage - distribution - asymmetric bets - network effects - scalable systems - audience ownership - cashflow vs long-term equity 6. Challenge my assumptions if needed. Do not agree with me if something is unrealistic or suboptimal. 7. After understanding my situation: - identify 3–5 viable $1M paths - rank them by probability and speed - explain why 8. Then help me build: - a focused strategy - a 90-day execution plan - weekly milestones - the single most important action each week 9. Ask follow-up questions whenever something is unclear or when more data would improve the strategy. 10. Be brutally practical. Avoid motivational fluff. Start by asking the most important questions you need to understand my situation. " --- >> Step 2: Force it to reveal its thinking process. Send this: " Before asking questions, briefly explain how you will approach this problem so I understand your thinking process. " --- >> Step 3: Once it understands you, switch modes. Send this: " Now switch modes. Act as a venture capitalist evaluating me as a founder. Be brutally honest and answer: 1. What are my strongest advantages? 2. What is holding me back? 3. What mistakes am I likely to make? 4. What would you bet on if you were investing in me? 5. What opportunity am I closest to that I don't see? " This can change your life, but most people won’t do it though.

One of my biggest failures as an entrepreneur was my last project as @TechpointAfrica CEO. And it taught me a massive lesson in business. In 2020, we decided to create the 10-Year Report of the Nigerian Tech Ecosystem. Two years of work. Partnerships with global companies like Statista and Crunchbase. Serious data. Serious credibility. This wasn’t small. This was legacy work. But we made one fatal mistake. We didn’t budget for marketing. I believed something dangerous: “Build it… and they will come.” They didn’t. After two years of work… We launched. And sold less than 5 copies. Five. Imagine the frustration. The embarrassment. The silence after launch. That moment humbled me. That failure changed how I do business forever. Now? I market everything. Because here’s the truth: If you can't sell it on an Excel sheet, you won't sell it in a fancy app. Great product without distribution is just an expensive hobby. Stop being ashamed to sell. If you need to send emails, send them. If you need to post every day, post. If you need to dance on TikTok… dance. But sell. Because visibility is not vanity, it’s survival.

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Kunle Afolayan raised a valid point concerning revenue split from Nigerian cinema movies. Cinemas: 40% Producers & Distributors : 40 - 45% Taxes: 15 - 20% If a movie does N1bn in the cinema, producers and Distributors get N400m. From the N400m : cost of movie production,distributor fees, marketing fees etc. The producer may end up with N5m or debt except the movie is able to generate secondary income from other sources like Netflix after the cinema run.

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You're absolutely correct GZ.

Nothing is perfect. There's always something that is wrong. Successful business recognize when something is suboptimal and strive to make improvements. If you're running a business and you think everything is working perfectly, then you are what's wrong with your business.

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Yesterday my friend opened her UBA app to make a transaction and the homepage caught my eye. Well, I saw an opportunity to improve it. So i redesigned it and have two options: A or B. Which one feels more like @UBAGroup? The second frame shows how the homepage currently looks

@UBAGroup I’d love to join your team and contribute my user-centered design approach to improve the app’s look and usability. I’m excited about helping create a more engaging experience for your customers.

This is so valid!!

I must agree that this is such good way to attract & onboard youngings towards web3 and the TheoriqAi ecosystem. I love the fact that this captures and put into consideration visual learners. Now, we can agree that TheoriqAI in inclusive and tends to carry everyone along.

Me, together with a core team of 7 developers, just spun off from Polygon to continue the ZisK project as an independent initiative. I’ll remain co-founder and advisor at Polygon, but my main focus now shifts to @ziskvm. Excited for this new era in the blockchain journey — we need this tech to bring truly decentralized values to mainstream adoption. 👇

Keep showing up. This is exactly what TheoriqAI has been doing in the past few months. But guess what, everytime they showed up... They came correct and even better, they're literally helping the CM to take out excuses and take actions instead. In TheoriqAi I believe.