Credit: Startup Vitamins First make it work, then make it right, then make it fast. Kent Beck Last week, I had a rather interesting and illuminating discussion with someone. Our discussion bothered on some core concepts that almost every startup will deal with at some point; over engineering and time...

"Knowledge of database tools like(MySQL, PHP, Java and C#)" "8yrs experience building iOS apps using the Swift programming language" How often do you see job descriptions like these? I stumble on these things like every other day. What’s annoying about these job descriptions for technical roles is that there are...

com·mu·ni·ty /kəˈmyo͞onədē/ noun noun: community; plural noun: communities A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. “Konga has a healthy community” Before I begin, I’ll like to state that communities are the bedrock of marketplaces. Simple. December last year, I took up...

Today, 3 years ago, konga.com went live. This day has been permanently etched in my memory. I wouldn't forget it in a hurry. I still remember the excitement, the frenzy while trying to deliver our first and probably only order for that day - July 10th, 2012. I still remember...

“Mobile is the future, scratch that. Mobile isn’t the future, it is the primary screen.” The above quote sounds all too familiar, it is now cliché. In Africa, the millennial have leapfrogged the desktop paradigm straight to mobile. In a world where social media have been so woven into our...