Thoughts & Perspectives
Read the latest technical insights and strategic opinions from Favion.
Why African Startups Are Finally Building for Africa (And What It Takes to Win)
For a long time, the most common story in African tech went like this: a founder builds a product modelled after something that worked in Silicon Valley, pitches it to foreign investors using metrics borrowed from Western playbooks, and watches it stall because the infrastructure, electricity, internet, payment rails, trust, just wasn't the same.
Why Most African Tech Startups Struggle to Scale (And What the Surviving Ones Do Differently)
Africa has produced some remarkable tech companies in the last decade. Flutterwave, Paystack, Andela, Chipper Cash, proof that world-class products can be built on the continent and scale globally. But for every company that breaks through, there are hundreds that stall, pivot into irrelevance, or quietly shut down.
AI Automation in Business: What It Actually Does (And What It Can't)
Artificial intelligence is one of the most overhyped and simultaneously underutilized technologies in modern business. The marketing says it will replace your team. The skeptics say it's a buzzword. The reality, as usual, is somewhere in between, and it's more useful than both camps suggest.
How to Build a SaaS Product from Scratch: Lessons from Real-World Development
Building a SaaS product sounds exciting until you're three months in, the codebase is a mess, users aren't converting, and the feature list keeps growing. We've been there — and so has almost every founder who ships software for a living.