Celestine Omin
On Software, life and everything in-between
2015: The Year in Review
Today is the last day of 2015 and, I must say it was quite an eventful year for tech globally. This year had several defining moments and we couldn’t be more grateful for the giant strides that have been made. Nigeria’s leading hotels booking website, Hotels.ng raised $1.2M from Pierre...
On product, feature development and GMVs - Eyes on the prize.
Atlassian’s JIRA Often times we get really excited about new products and new product features that we forget how they fit into the bigger picture of the organisation. While launching products and new features are great, it is imperative that we measure and understand their overall place in the company’s...
Echoes from Yakata 2015
Yakata 2015 has come and gone, but the events leading to this momentous day will forever be etched in our memories. The engineering team at Konga, without mincing words, made giant leaps. We stepped out of our comfort zones and challenged the status quo. We built new services(we’re moving towards...
We all don't know what we are doing...
From the outside, it always looks like people have it all figured out and they are just riding the wave. But the reality is, they are just failing fast and learning from the experience as they go on. Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Chesky and a host of other CEOs doing amazing...
Build, don't destroy
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi In the last couple of days, there have a been a barrage of tweets from experts about all that is wrong with the current tech(read startup) in Nigeria. I have followed these...