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[The Activism Blog] Klickonnect is giving out 250,000 grants to Five businesses in Ondo state

2018 is off to a great start for many young people who are striking out and starting their own businesses in 2018, thanks to the non-profit, Klickconnect. The Klickconnect is…

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Facebook celebrates Africa’s vibrant startup scene and rising talent at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Africa 2017

Facebook this week celebrated the achievements of a fast-growing community of African tech entrepreneurs and developers, at the first-ever TechCrunch Startup Battlefield in Africa, sponsored by Facebook. Alongside the event,…

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#Impact365: StartUP6 provides a platform for young entrepreneurs to grow their business using social media influencers

StartUp6 is a unique initiative that targets small businesses by providing a platform for them to connect with social media influencers who can use social media tools to expand these…

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How E’Sorae Luxury used word-of-mouth and social media to grow a bedding and homeware business

E’sorae Luxury — a Lagos-based online retailer that produces good quality bedsheets and bedding basics — has been growing rapidly since its launch in 2014 as an E-commerce store. Its…

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Opinion: Machine learning- predicting customer churn

Churn is when a customer stops using a company’s product or cancels his subscription. Considering that retaining an existing customers is usually cheaper than acquiring a new customer, it will…

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Tony Elumelu Foundation, Ministry of Information & Culture partner to develop creative industries

At the National Theatre in Iganmu, Surulere, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) on Wednesday signed an MOU with the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture for the development of Nigeria’s…

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Opinion: How we failed at our first start-up

by Chuks Okeibunor It started from a comment by a friend I often discussed financial matters otherwise esoteric to normal 200L students. “Why don’t we start a group, pull funds together,…

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The fifth edition of StartUP Friday and the first Lagos edition is here

The fifth edition of StartUP Friday programme of the Office for ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIIE), a subsidiary of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)has been scheduled for Friday 23 September,…

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Jason Njoku: What Andrew taught me about the future of our ecosystem

Mrs Njoku was fast asleep, no noise from the kids, the world was at peace. I finally had time to wade through hundreds of unread Spark emails. I happened across…

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We explored the evolution of #Yabacon in this 2-minute video

In less than five years, Yaba, a Lagos suburb has evolved to become one of the leading technology clusters in Africa, and home to a majority of Nigeria's prominent tech companies.…

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Nairabox unveils Yemi Alade, Geniuzz as new ambassadors (PHOTOS)

Nairabox, a dynamic and first of its kind social digital wallet on Tuesday, announced multiple award winning artiste and Effyzzie Music Group's Yemi Alade as well as label mate, Geniuzz…

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#AskCharlesOnY!: Starting a business without a business plan is like walking into a dark room

By Charles Odii Week 3 on #AskCharlesOnY! Hi Charles, QUESTION: Can I start my business without a Business plan? RESPONSE: Dear SME100Nigerian, Imagine yourself walking into a dark room…an unfamiliar dark…

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Adekanmbi Samuel: Diary of an almost frustrated startup (30 Days, 30 Voices)

by Adekanmbi Samuel About five years ago, in a promo tagged 9jillion, Etisalat gave out one million dollars ($1,000,000) which some persons initially considered unrealistic. Even though I’d never won…

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Chude Jideonwo: Don’t mind us Celestine, just keep moving

by Chude Jideonwo The feeding frenzy is on. If you’ve followed YNaija’s excellent technology pages, or that fine blog TechCabal, you would know about the Nigerian tech space’s trending issue…

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Editi Effiong: Dear Start-up, great job! But what if the VCs don’t come?

by Editi Effiong Last night, I read that post by the co-founder of tiketmobile, and was really saddened, but without a lot of pity. It’s sad that he had to shutter up,…

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Seyi Taylor: 5 things to learn from the Tiketmobile fiaso (yes, I’m calling it a fiasco)

by Seyi Taylor 1. Hindsight is 20/20. And Not Even Then. We don’t know the terms Jason offered for his $25,000 and I won’t speculate. What I do know is…

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Opinion: Nigerian technology startups and their tendency to be unreliable

by Mark Essien Nigeria is a fundamentally unreliable place…nobody expects you to arrive by 4PM, if that’s what was written in the invitation. I once showed up for a Nigerian…

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