The social network that you can wear
- Lifestyle
- February 6, 2015
Close your eyes, conjure an image of a tech entrepreneur you know, whether Nigerian, American or European. While it will only take God to give an exact guess of who your conjured entrepreneur might be, I think guessing what they look like will be a piece of cake for anybody accustomed to the tech world.
READ MOREFailure is dreadful. The thought and fear of your ingenious idea becoming a stillborn is what keeps a lot of would-be entrepreneurs with potentials looking in from the sideline. Will it succeed? Will people buy it? What if it isn’t what people want? How do I get people to love it? What if it fails?
READ MORELast week, Netflix went global, opening up its gateway to the African continent. The announcement sent ripples across the internet, as editors the world over scribbled with glee, pontificating and predicting what the announcement meant for their countries. Over here, in Nigeria, one man may have had more to think about than any other person.
READ MOREI was speaking to an executive of one of the largest cinema chains in Nigeria. He was telling me how most people he spoke to thought iROKO was ‘bad for the industry’. To be honest this is something I hear regularly. My first thought was, If I am bad, who is good? Then, second to
READ MOREENTERPRISE54 – Back in 2010, iROKO pioneered the Multi Channel Networks in Africa. In its lifetime we have generated 1,006,935,177 video views and 3,247,975,023 estimated minutes watched. Thats 1 billion video views. Just on YouTube. For me, that is straight up amazing. Even though we migrated to our own operated platform, iROKOtv, in Dec 2011,
READ MOREENTERPRISE54 – Come December 4, in the heart of Nigeria’s silicon valley, Co-creation Hub will be hosting a high-powered Q&A session featuring four of Nigeria’s leading tech entrepreneurs – Sim Shagaya (Founder & CEO, Konga Online Shopping), Ayodeji Adewunmi (Co-Founder & CEO, Jobberman), Jason Njoku (Founder & CEO, iROKO), and Tayo Oviosu (Founder & CEO,
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