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Chaos and the unstructured man.

Varys: Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all. Petyr Bealish: Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb and they refuse. They cling

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The hard stuff…

I don’t like the hard stuff. I Love it. I have a predisposition to tackle what, on the surface, may be easy but once disturbed is actually really really difficult. Grimy. Dirt-under-your finger nails type stuff. Easy stuff is simple to replicate; there is no real competitive advantage. The dirtier

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Internet 1.0 | Strategies of yesterday.

Today, there are broadband-rich data buzzy internet strategies which are largely a Western play and are widely available and debated on the top tech blogs. Then there are internet businesses of late 90’s which reign supreme in Nigeria today. iROKOtv as a site is strangely in the middle. Video streaming

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SPARK. We build companies. That’s all.

Apparently I talk a lot. Probably too much, whereas I just feel I have a lot to say. Others just want me to shut the hell up. I think I have a fairly unique and honest perspective on internet startups in Nigeria. That’s something I always wanted to share; as

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We need more jobs. Desperately.

There is a problem. A big fat hairy problem which needs solving. Somehow, in fact I would settle for anyhow. Youth unemployment. Nigeria churns out hundreds of thousands of graduates into the worst jobs market in recent history. The civil service cannot absorb any more inefficient or simply plain old

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Have some fucking respect for Nollywood.

<rant> So I was reading some dudes response to KULUYA’s $2Mn funding announcement. As I anticipated the digerati were rearing their heads talking about less than mediocre games, 50 bland titles rather than 5 great ones blah, blah fucking blah. The digerati in my opinion are usually almost-broke and /

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Death by innovation

Finally. An awesome article on the realities of tech hubs and scenes across Africa. If you are interesting in tech startups in Nigeria (and Africa) please go across and read this. The most valuable startups I know in Nigeria are executing the pants off the opportunities they are exploiting. Innovation

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Disruption

This is what disruption looks like. From a peak around 2000 of $63Bn, print newspaper advertising revenue lost 70% of its value in 10 years. And the pain hasn’t stopped. It will continue. The future is coming. And there is nothing you can do to stop it. Be afraid. Be

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Pop-pop-pop-pop … pop Champagne.

Somewhere in Ikoyi. The day after the night before. I read a recent article by the AFP about the conspicuous consumption of Champagne in Nigeria. According to research firm Euromonitor International, Nigeria is among the fastest-growing countries in the world for Champagne consumption, spending an estimated $59Mn in 2012, up

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iROKING. 100k to 1Mn monthly uniques in six months.

Michael Ugwu CEO iROKING hanging with 2Face and Ice Prince at the iROKING-sponsored tour in the USA last year iROKING is something I rarely speak about. Since I divorced myself from the day to day management and handed over to Michael Ugwu (CEO) and Bastian who leads all technical things

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