crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 21, 2014

Interview with a crowdSPRING designer (from Nigeria) … 12 Questions: Meet Tayo Adetola – crowdspring.co/1gLmF8t. 5 technologies that are shaping the future of design – crowdspring.co/1kK5bjM. Taking A Second Look At Free Fonts | Smashing Magazine – crowdspring.co/1gyKvI8. 1guHrZc.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Nigeria itself is home to 170 million people, a figure that is expected to rise to 400 million by 2050, and the biggest market in Africa. According to Transparency International in 2013, Nigeria was the world’s 144th most corrupt country out of the 177 countries monitored. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Prior to founding Andela , he co-founded 2U , an education technology startup that went public in 2014. That kicked off this long conversation about how you might try to leverage this evolution of education technology to create scalable impact in places where tuition couldn’t be the driver of growth. We got that down to six finalists.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2014

From a summit on media in the Middle East to a huge new funding opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs in Nigeria, here are fascinating business news stories from the U.S. She recently gave this interview to the MIT technology review. News business trends technology women in business' and around the world. The world of work.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Prior to founding Andela , he co-founded 2U , an education technology startup that went public in 2014. That kicked off this long conversation about how you might try to leverage this evolution of education technology to create scalable impact in places where tuition couldn’t be the driver of growth. We got that down to six finalists.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2012

It’s difficult to supplant Silicon Valley as the hotbed of technology and innovation – our previous infographic looked at comparing Silicon Valley with New York – but that’s not stopping other parts of the world from building their own centers of entrepreneurship and technological innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

It is the oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria that is Tweeted before people even know a disruption may happen. Nick – the incredibly visionary behind the company and our technology. Huge congrats to everybody at DataSift whom I’ve enjoyed working with so much over the past 2.5

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deal architect

MARCH 24, 2013

We hear so much about Silicon Valley and Bangalore and Shanghai that is refreshing to hear about innovations in unexpected places: Nigeria's Nollywood: Most prolific in world Medellin, Colombia's massive turnaround Bhutan's plan to go all organic farming The world's.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 18, 2014

Tayo lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. My wife Peace and I both live and work in Lagos, Nigeria. We recently moved back into Nigeria last year, having spent 7 years in the United Kingdom. I have a diploma in Architectural Technology and a BSc. in Architectural Design Technology/Building from Coventry University.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Quick Background I was born in Nigeria, but mostly grew up in Dallas, TX. I made that comment at Div Hackathon, a yearly diversity hackathon at Huston-Tillotson University (an HBCU and the first institute of higher-education in Austin, TX), during SXSW to introduce Black and Brown kids to the technology industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2017

But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 15, 2016

He is a traveler and has been to 29 states in Nigeria, helping people through job creation and verbal sponsorship. “My name is Edwin Buchi, and I thank all of you who decided to give attention and listen to our needs and responsibilities” “In Nigeria, we have over 60 percent of people said to be poor.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

“What B&M Brands Can Learn From eCommerce” with Ryan Wuerch @ Dosh With 94 percent of all retail purchases still taking place in brick and mortar locations, it’s time brands unlock the full potential of mobile technology.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Development Agencies and Regional Incubators, please read: Does Your Region Experience Brain Drain Of Technology Entrepreneurs? There were people from Argentina, Israel, India, France, New York, Washington, Nigeria, etc. and Is Your Region Full Of Savvy Entrepreneurs? Also relevant: How Do You Scale Mentoring?

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Taking a quick peep at the cities of Nigeria, ranging from the busy Lagos state and the crowded population in Ibadan. Your guess is as good as mine – TECHNOLOGY. Taking a glance at a news update, I swung online dated May 20, 2016, The Minister of Science and Technology of Nigeria -Dr.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At this point, it’s clear that we must take a blitzscaling approach to funding, developing, and scaling both the existing technologies and new innovations that will allow us to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert looming planetary disaster. Then, there’s climate change. In this instance, that’s especially true.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

The agriculture technology sector, or agtech, in Africa is booming and its entrepreneurs think very long term and very big. He grew up on his parents’ smallholding farm in rural Nigeria. Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

I’m on there as a mentor, and I’m mentoring a guy in Nigeria, who’s starting a business. Unless you are a technology company like us, you’re probably not monitoring those things. Then you pick what are the types of areas you want help in. Then the system will match you with mentors who say they have expertise in those places.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

These students are typically attracted to Internet and technology start-ups, given that these share favourable industry characteristics such as significant addressable markets, low barriers to entry, modest initial capital requirements and relatively low costs of customer acquisition.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

AJL supply these yeasts to breweries in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Spain, Brazil, Chile, USA, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Korea, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Vi etnam, Germany and many other countries.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

run technology-focused programming, e.g., trade missions. The Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative is another very successful parallel initiative in New York and elsewhere. . In addition, many of the local consulates, chambers of commerce, etc. Relatively few US VC funds have a systematic focus on non-US based companies.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

IDEA Information Technology Developers Entrepreneurship Accelerator. The SAIE provides an array of articles and other resources for small business, with an emphasis on education, agriculture, enterprise development, and information technology. The Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand. Endeavor South Africa.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. Viva Technology : Open Innovation Platform with many challenges and startup events where you can pitch, compete and exhibit.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 19, 2016

After much talk Steve noticed that a country in Africa known as Nigeria is the major patronizer of his telecommunication products. Steve left there that day with an intention of knowing more about the country Nigeria, he went online and use Google and other search engines to know more about Nigeria.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When I returned to Nigeria from Germany looking to create a dedicated (online) hotel booking agency for Nigerians, I wanted my company to communicate in the simplest terms possible what our value proposition was. We are committed to delivering affordable and convenient bookings to our customers anywhere in Nigeria.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing emphasis on girls and information and communication technology in the development sector. Globalization has made it necessary to catch up and keep up to date on technology. We need technology for Africa’s development. who writes from Nigeria.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures says: “I feel that the ability to spin up and then successfully operate remote engineering locations is a skill that technology companies need to develop earlier in their development than used to be the case.”. You can attend Stanford from Nigeria or Oxford from El Salvador. Don’t participate.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. These new entrants will also likely provide services that we don’t foresee today, similar to the Amazon example.

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Transformify

AUGUST 6, 2015

Although Mark Zuckerberg’s plea to the tech community to put those without basic Internet service before their interest in "the intellectual purity of technology" might not be completely altruistic, the positive effects of free Internet are tremendous. Women represent two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. These new entrants will also likely provide services that we don’t foresee today, similar to the Amazon example.

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