Seun Osewa

"Complexity is one of the great evils,good men seek to slay it whenever they can."

"Honesty and popularity rarely coexist in the same space. Once in a blue moon, when what people want to hear is actually true, it happens."

"After we got the Internet, the first online service I wanted to build was a Nigerian Paypal. I held 3 or 4 related domains for a while, but failed to renew them, as I didn't have what it'd take. This was years before I thought about starting Nairaland."

"I learnt that one could make money by starting a popular website and placing adverts on it, but I couldn’t make my blog popular enough to"

"I always tell job seekers to create their own jobs, because nobody owes them a job."

"Look for a painful problem that others are facing, and then devise a way to make people pay you for the solution. Look for problems that don’t require much capital to solve."

"In a developing country like Nigeria, there are so many problems waiting to be solved. One man’s problem is another man’s profit! Competition is often weak which means you’ll make a lot of money. So what are you waiting for?"

"I used to be active on various discussion forums online, so I recognised their value. But the Nigerian forums available at the time were dominated by Nigerians abroad. They focused on topics like US politics and inter-racial relations."