Posted on 09 July 2010

Nigeria; Our startup stories

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We will be writing a series of post highlighting how technologist in the country started their companies; the challenges they encountered, how they overcame and how they have been able to sustain and grow their businesses over the years.

For now, we are covering Nigeria but plan is under way to cover whole of Africa in shortest time possible.

So what do we want to achieve with this?

  1. We want to assess the tenacity of young people to startup in Nigeria/Africa
  2. We want to know what the problem really is; we don’t want to assume financial or technical limitations are the main problems.
  3. We want to know how big the industry is and by extension how fast it can grow in the coming years.
  4. We want to give head-start to the budding entrepreneurs on what it really takes to start a tech business in this part of the world.

We want to inspire CHANGE!

So if you have built a startup and have been able to sustain your business for the past 2-5years, let us hear from you, we want to hear your story, we want to celebrate you!

Send an email about your story to info [at] webtrendsng.com. We will be glad to know some certain things in your story;

1. How did you start?
2. How old were you when you started?
3. What support did you get starting up? Financial or otherwise?
4. How did you make money with your business when you get started?
5. How did you overcome the challenges of starting a business in this country?
6. What is the key factor that helped grow your business (success)?
7. Is it really possible to succeed in this country as a startup?
8. Does tech business have future in this country?

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