How I Built a Business called Snackspot and raised my first Angel Investment

During ASUU Strike in 2013, I had documented a list of challenges I would love to see solved. Snackspot was an answer to some of those challenges but I didn't solve it till 2015. I had a lot of reflections about some of the challenges I observed during my time at my secondary school @ Our Lady & St.Francis Catholic College (OSCCO).

The challenge of limited food options during lunch break and I had the perfect solution which was to aggregate snack vendors across the state, formalise their operations with technology to provide snacks to select schools we have signed partnership deals with. I even thought of having a card that allows students to have their parents pre-load cash for them to spend with us.

I called the business SNACKSPOT and here's what the plan looked like

But before all of this, I started by reading lots of research documents and took a survey of parents around me.

Every parent I spoke with loved the idea as it would save them the stress involved in planning their kid's lunch break meals and the next plan was to find a school to trial at. I immediately thought about my alma-mater and went there. The conversation was easy as I was a 2 time prefect in the school and they remembered me as a bright student hence, they welcomed the idea. They particularly loved the stand and our branding:

I remembered fighting Adobe Illustrator to get this design done. As a young innvoator, I thought really hard about what would make this unique and I decided to introduce the snack card which would be issued to every students.

The menu wasn't totally convincing but I was still able to sell the idea

I knew I needed to scale the business hence, I started speaking with everyone I knew to invest in the business. Here's a copy of the proposal I made

And I met the Talabi brothers; I can't remember specifically how my relationship with Femi Talabi started but I knew I pitched him Snackspot and he invested more than half of the investment I was seeking.

The business didn't go farther than one school because I was too naive especially around creating processes around vendors to ensure quality and fast delivery of inventory needed at the stands. I got cheated and had to close down the business. I explained to my investors and they were quite happy to have invested in me. I hope I am able to make a lot of money to reward them for their trust in a 23 year old me.