11 April 2011 Comments

Garage48 Lagos – IT idea into a working service in 48 hours!

For the first time in its existence, the Garage48 event series is coming to Lagos. Together with two world companies, Google and Nokia, it will take place from the 6th to the 8th of May 2011 at the Lagos Resource Centre, Victoria Island. Originally developed in Europe, Estonia and expanded to other countries, the purpose [...]

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06 April 2011 Comments

6 ways to get funding as a Nigerian startup

As last year wind down, I was involved in analysing a couple Nigerian tech start-ups and engaged some foreign investors who were interested in Nigerian internet market; there was a major factor they consider before choosing to even discuss with any start-up. I want to share brief with you, so you can have them handy [...]

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26 December 2010 Comments

Key to startup success: solve a need or create a want then scale

We have been debating for ages in this space. Once again I had a chat with an entrepreneur who simply holds fervently to the concept that; Nigeria don’t want to be changed or given something new abruptly! I agree because really it’s common everywhere, people generally kick against things that take them away from their [...]

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13 December 2010 Comments Off

19 Years old Nigerian, launched social learning platform in Canada

No matter where they are, Nigerians that work hard make waves! Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is another Nigerian representing Nigeria proudly abroad. Waterloo, ON. uWaterloo undergraduate students launch online peer learning platform that enables students from all  over the world colleges to interact with each other on the pages of academic material in which they share a common [...]

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27 October 2010 Comments

Interview with Adeolu Akinyemi – Internet is the birth of the under 35 internet billionaire era in Nigeria

Today, we will be sharing with you a captivating interview we had with Adeolu Akinyemi; If you have been online for a while now in the country, you must have had about it. Deolu as he’s fondly called is one of Nigeria’s foremost brands in People and Organizational Development, Financial Empowerment, Network Marketing and Blogging. [...]

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18 October 2010 Comments

Interview with Unotech founders: Dolapo and Damola Taiwo

Have you ever visited a site and before scrolling down you say “This must be a Nigerian site”? Well, same is for Dolapo and Damola who are keen on developing quality and aesthetic websites. The twin brothers co-founded Unotech Media and have become a force to reckon with in the industry. We caught up with [...]

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11 October 2010 Comments

Most visited Nigerian Sites in September now 150

Our last week’s analysis covered top 50 Nigerian sites with most traffic. In the course of the analysis, we made 65 sites available for you to view their ranks, we have added the rest to cover the ever increasing top Nigerian sites. You can view them all here to see if yours is there. If [...]

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20 August 2010 Comments

When the funding comes, what innovation do you have?

Watching this industry grow in bits over the years, I must say we are indeed getting the world attention and right now, investors are only waiting for an interesting startup they can invest in Nigeria. 43million is not small number. South Africa has less than 6million internet users but the value of internet investment made [...]

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18 August 2010 Comments

Why you need Facebook Social Graph in your startup

We have seen couple of Nigerian startups struggling to take off over the years and I look through them and trying to see what one thing could help them leap frog. I come to the conclusion that plugging Facebook to their application could just be that one thing that will help them move past the [...]

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