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wrong mail box and I realised
that there could be so many
people in need of quality
delivery services. I mean,
there was need for a system
that can be used to track
deliveries and know their
locations.
“The wait was a harrowing
experience for me and
exposed the loopholes in
the Nigerian mailing system.
Hubbon NG was born to fill
these gaps.
“I began to study the business
in Nigeria and continued
studying the delivery space
when I had to stay back in the
UK for a year more. I had so
much free time and used it to
put my business plan together
in detail. I was just enjoying
the process of building a
business from scratch.”
cto too much workplace rules
and regulations. It was just
like school all over again.
“I realised that I couldn’t
keep up with planning and
planning so I took matters in
my hand and opened social
media pages for the company.
I began to get deliveries and
before you know it, I had four
delivery guys and expanded
just by getting clients on
Twitter,” he said.
Don’t clap too much, Muna is
like the rest of us. He suffered
analysis paralysis for a long
time. He reviewed his business
plan over and over again that
it lost a bit of flavour and he
had to begin work as a civil Fast-forward,Hubbon NG has
engineer.
positioned itself as one of the
businesses to watch in Nigeria
“I was still planning for months with its fast growing revenue
after I returned to Nigeria and and continuous innovation. It
I got tired and began to work is not just a delivery service,
at a construction firm. I had it is the delivery service of all
already had about four jobs delivery services because of
and I realised that I am one its role as a hub for delivery.
This is the origin of the name
Hubbon NG – a delivery hub
for Nigeria, by Nigerians.
We continued to chat about
life as an entrepreneur and
the perceived glamour. Muna
sighed and said, “It is not a
pleasant ride, all my failures
have prepared me to take
failure well and not let it
weigh me down.
“Sometimes, you get really
sad because you are almost
certain that you can reach a
certain milestone and when
you fail to hit it, you begin to
question your whole idea.”
Hubbon NG is on a fast track, a
dream bigger than Muna. This
only means one thing – he
cannot let go. Just like he said,
“Entrepreneurship is a road
full of failures, victory comes
to those who persevere.”
(MunachisoEjieji blogs at
www.startuptalk.hubbonng.
com
He can be reached on
Instagram @mr_hubbon)
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