@mauri since nobody wants to tell you straight. Let me say it, “you are evil”.
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Have you ever wondered the number of push-ups the thunder @Possicon might send your way has done if he got to read your last comment? Was really tempted to flag that post.
Oh wow! So she is D EVIL @87_chuks was talking about. I wouldn’t have guessed it!
Oh by the way, this thread justifies my gut feel. Radar needs to start offering a PhD course in “startups”. Just too many people who know how a startup should grow from ideation into execution and end up as a unicorn.
A Masters course would no longer suffice for these people. For some of us who know nothing, a graduate assistantship is great gain!
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I see what you guys did… 
It is worth repeating that @Possicon is one of the best things that happen to the tech space in Nigeria. There is a thin line between “comforting him” and sounding as the expert with no credibility.
A lot of us are like the biblical Job’s friend who are trying to comfort him 
Like some comments here have noted, @possicon was not weak to have shared his story with us. When he gets back on his feet (I know he will) the best gifts he deserve is to get actionable advice he can implement in addition to our sympathy.
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I feel you bro…
I probably qualify as a witch with feathers My advice to Mr. Furniture Millionaire, he should join one of the startups around, where his skill may be needed.
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Some people talk too much and they have nothing to show themselves
@mauri talks too much and has nothing to show herself. If you’d directed the message at my directly ,I would had responded with catalogue of my medals
Oya … “@mauri talks too much and has nothing to show herself” …
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Hahaha…Catalogue kwa! You must’ve exited Facebook with millions of dollars when it went IPO. Anything short of that would be disappointing. Very disappointing…
.*P.S: Some of us don’t even have medal not to talk of Catalogue. That was why we couldn’t advice Mr. Sheriff. So don’t take this for a Catalogue league match. #AskingForAFriend.
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Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is why we are not developed fully as a nation, am so sorry to say this but it is the biter truth we are supposed to console and learn from what he has listed on his post as the reason he thinks he failed (Some one should be the founder of autopsy.com.ng or startupautopsy.com.ng) instead of throwing curses on someone who blame the founder for exaggeration during his media hype when he started, but for me one thing i have learnt is this game is in the long term so a lot of failures will occur (A LOT, other founders like Jason too failed in some [companies] (http://www.jason.com.ng/post/144242043005/failure) ) and we all are students in this ecosystem trying to shape our own model that works not that of sillicon valley but ours, i even quoted this
Ref: Instagram
Learning from Our Mistakes (Showroom.ng founder mistakes)
Weak domain expertise: we don’t have that in our team, inasmuch as I tried to learn on the fly, this will take years of learning, practice before charging people. I had personally underwrote mistakes from partner or staff 100%, just so you could make customers happy, but resources are limited we do not have that much and our products are heavy items.
Speed: the edge a startup has over bigger company is suppose to be speed, yeah for a couple of our products we were fast but for so many we were terribly late. Building features, making user experience superb is not my strength, I’m ninja but in the team we didn’t have either or could afford one.
Team setup: success of any endeavor have a lot of tie to the people behind it. Looking back, I’d selected those with; domain expertise, better work ethic (than myself) and complimentary strength.
Fundraising: Raise enough money, don’t raise at all or don’t start. I personally think or being conditioned over the years that startups need to raise fund. It’s not so. I worked with a couple partners that didn’t raise a dime for their companies and they are doing pretty fine(offline). Sells a piece here and there. When we started doing fine, I somehow felt entitled to be funded. Somewhere along the line I asked myself, why really must this guys give me money? Did I work the money in their pockets? I felt really bad and awkward sometimes with the process.
Humbleness: You don’t know everything. I have read all the articles, the manifestos, I have worked with a team that built massive stuff. Looking back, I think…our strengths are magnified when we work in a strong team, and diminished when we work alone or in a weaker team. Listening to advise, following your instincts are all as good as knowing what to do right per time. If at a particular you make wrong decision and another then another, the damage may be bigger than you can reverse.
Integrity: Be true to your core values even at tough times. I believe, customers reign supreme in every business and as such whenever we fall short, I felt personally responsible for them. And at many occasions avoided facing the customer. Cause I thought, if I was in their shoes, I had done worse. I really think as at this time, it’s harder to keep to the ethos, it’s better I just pause, see what’s wrong and find a way out.
Please, please, please let us elaborate on (learn from) his failures not raining blames on each other, if this was the house of rep we would have started stoning ourselves chairs, 
We need more startup founders sharing their success and yes FAILURE stories like this. No one talks about this but startup founders can sometimes go through bouts of depression. Wish you the best of luck in the future. And like you said you are better alive and scorned than gone for good.
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I’m sure mauri is the type of person who thinks people don’t like her because she tells the truth all the time and some people can’t handle it. No mauri, people don’t like you because you’re just an asshole.
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