Mark Essien

Hotels.ng Founder, Mark Essien, shares what you should know to build and run a successful startup 0
- Entrepreneurs, Management
- April 20, 2016
One thing is clear, the Nigerian startup ecosystem (tech and otherwise) is burgeoning exponentially and incubators are having their hands full already. As the number of athletes in the race called entrepreneurship surges, so does the number of deaths. People/Teams crashing out, dropping of the picture for different reasons. Many drop their blame on lack
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Hotels.ng’s guide to getting free media publicity for your business 0
- Communication
- April 11, 2016
I must admit that when I assumed the position of PR manager (among my other roles) at Hotels.ng, I barely understood what PR meant. ‘Public Relations’ or ‘Press Releases’? The sweet irony here is that I was coming from a background as product manager/community manager/team lead/chief editor for a big-deal PR platform, and every day I
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NATIVIZED: Some Cool Pictures of Tech Entrepreneurs in trad 0
- Lifestyle
- April 10, 2016
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.
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How to become rich in a time of a dying naira 0
- Money
- February 13, 2016
The Naira is falling down! For those who don’t know – the Naira, Nigeria’s currency used to trade at N160 to a dollar. It was very stable for a long while, and then shortly after the oil prices started falling, the Naira started falling. The Naira has now dropped to N330 to the dollar, and
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Nigeria’s Hotels.ng Raises $1.2m From Echo VC, Omidyar Network 0
- Companies
- May 26, 2015
Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s largest hotel booking website, has secured an investment of $1.2 million from international investors EchoVC Pan-Africa Fund, a seed-stage technology fund, and Omidyar Network, the investment vehicle of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. The funding round follows on from the company’s 2013 seed investment of $225,000 from Lagos-based Spark.ng. Hotels.ng has built its hotel
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Software Developers Could Help Save Nigeria When Oil Dries Up 0
- Technology
- October 30, 2014
ENTERPRISE54 – Columnists in Nigeria excitedly announce the latest electric car technology, and how it means progress. Yes, it means progress for humanity as a whole, but for Nigeria in particular, it is demonstrative of a trend that is extremely dangerous. Oil prices have dropped. They will continue to drop. Technology is making it feasible
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