Sell before building: Key Patterns for getting Corporate MVP’s unstuck. By Chu Nnodu on April 16, 2025 — 2 mins read Have you ever been involved in a corporate project to bring a new digital product to the world? How did it go? Corporate MVP’s tend to easily get stuck in a version of the product death cycle coined by David Bland where you prioritize and build features that no one buys. Here are some tell-tale... More
Buying Land in the 2020’s By Chu Nnodu on December 7, 2021 — 1 min read African millennials understand the concept of real estate as a source of wealth, but with the explosion of the digital landscape, how many have made the connection that digital real estate could work in the same way? Let’s start from real estate as we know it – buying undervalued land or property and selling it... More
Case for Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Chu Nnodu on December 4, 2020 — 3 mins read Apparently I wrote this in 2014, probably for some thing in grad school. Seems fairly coherent so, reposting. In the course of my time here I have realized that there’s a significant information gap between the developed world and such frontier markets like Sub-Saharan Africa. Because of this gap, white spaces exist which can be serviced... More
