Hi, I’m Victor. I’m 28, building from Nigeria. I’m not going to call myself a failure, but I’d be lying if I said I’m not frustrated. Two months ago, I built Rellay, a platform designed to make legal documents easier to create, complete, sign and manage. We launched it. But building a product and having enough capital to actually push it into the market are two very different things. I couldn’t scale it the way I wanted. So I went back to building. Now I’m building Vemmo - @joinvemmo. Vemmo is a business management and payments platform for everyday businesses - helping merchants manage products, inventory, sales, expenses and payments from one simple system. The vision is much bigger: give millions of businesses the kind of technology usually available only to bigger, more sophisticated merchants without the complexity or heavy software costs. And once again, I’ve reached the part nobody talks enough about: Getting a product built is one problem. Getting the capital to put it in front of the market is another. Nigeria has incredible builders, but raising early capital when you don’t already belong to the right networks can be exhausting. Still, I’m building. I don’t need sympathy. I need a fair opportunity to put Vemmo in the hands of real businesses and prove whether the market wants it. I’m currently looking to connect with investors, operators, merchants and people who understand what we’re trying to build. If that’s you, say hello. @joinvemmo Maybe this post reaches the one person I’m supposed to meet.

They say building is easier than ever. Yet somehow, everything is starting to look the same. You can almost tell which products were carefully built and which were simply prompted into existence. When the barrier to building disappears, does craft become the real moat?

I shout 😩😂

There’s a ₦3B investment fund currently ongoing for Founders working on economic problem-solving ideas by Digital Nigeria. If you’re interested comment DM

As a founder building in Nigeria. Have options. One of the biggest mistakes founders make is building as though one path must work. One investor. One customer segment. One distribution channel. One payment provider. One market. One source of income. That is dangerous anywhere. In Nigeria, it can be fatal. Markets shift. Capital disappears. Regulations change. Infrastructure fails. Customers delay. Partnerships collapse. Your job as a founder is not just to build a great product. Your job is to preserve optionality. Have a product that can evolve. Multiple routes to market. Revenue before fundraising becomes survival. Relationships before you desperately need introductions. Enough runway to say no to bad capital. Build locally, but think beyond one geography. The strongest companies are not always the ones that predicted everything correctly. They are often the ones that gave themselves enough options to survive being wrong. In emerging markets, optionality is not indecision. It is strategy. Build conviction but never build yourself into a corner.

Be like one Nigeria Founders has offended @TosinOlugbenga this week because man his giving it to us back to back 😂

I think you have to let go @v0xium and accept the change in human ingenuity. AI has flopped human thinking capacity already because everyone talk to one or two LLMs daily to get the job done quickly. I hope we don’t just get to a point where our life is controlled by it🙁

As a man, build liquidity in every area of your life. Not just financial liquidity. Have money you can access. Skills that can earn anywhere. A reputation that opens doors. Relationships built on trust. Friends you can genuinely call. Because when life gets difficult, what saves you is often not what you own; it’s what you can access. Cash. Knowledge. Opportunities. People. Goodwill. No man is an island. Build a life with options and liquidity. #PersonalGrowth

There’s no shortcut to success. As a young man hunger for success we all have to learn from Tony Sorry Mr Chairman 🤭

Avoid free service 🤬

Nigeria government gave them such power. No man is above the law but when a country subjected itself to inferiorism those are usually the end results. We dare not do that in China as a black man or even the white man himself. We’ll get it right someday and I hope we do better as a nation

Dreams worth pursuing. He must be the greatest entrepreneur to ever live @elonmusk

Ogbeni in everything you do try to be a man Financially Academically Career Relationship Cause the world doesn’t pity a mediocre

I got to realize today that there’s more to man personality than what he posted on social media. Current CEO of Apple @johnternus brought this realization, he got on social when he needed it no clout changing, no fugazzi just him and his simplicity, and now the world recognizes him easily.

Energy is paramount as well is technology both industries are bedrock for building a successful nation

We are pleased to announce the launch of Enerce by @Microlem our new solar and power solutions company. Getting trusted #Cleanenergy systems is now at your disposal☀️⚡

I’m rooting for her. Her product pitch is so perfect