Mark Essien

ConnectNigeria announces date for biggest SME fair of 2017 1
- Event
- January 26, 2017
Foremost business directory and information platform, ConnectNigeria, has announced date for the 2017 edition of its annual business conference, the e-Business Fair. The event comes up 18 February, 2017 at the Eko Hotel and suites, Victoria Island, Lagos State. Tagged “E-Business and the Growth of Your Enterprise”, the conference is a technology event that seeks to
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Spots.ng: Here’s why we think this a great idea 0
- Technology
- November 30, 2016
It is no longer news that Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s leading online hotel booking company has launched a new product – Spots.ng. Spots.ng is a compilation of tourist attractions in Nigeria comprising of fascinating spots with historical significance and cultural value; offering adventure, amusement and leisure to users based on their preferred travel location while providing information
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Mark Essien: A $1.2m start-up founder’s advice to entrepreneurs 0
- Communication, Entrepreneurs
- September 26, 2016
Here is a piece of advice from Hotels.ng founder and CEO, Mark Essien to Nigerian startup founders. Focus on making users use your product before you over-invest time in building the product. If people don’t want to use a simple version of the product, they won’t want to use a complex version. Building the first
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Learn how to leave your competitors in the dust – from the master of the art 0
- Entrepreneurs, Event
- September 9, 2016
They say that Nigeria is in recession. But, it seems some are not feeling the pinch. Mr Mark Essien is the Founder of hotelsng.com, described as the “biggest hotel booking site in Nigeria”. At 7:33pm, on Wednesday, 31st August 2016, he tweeted the following: Honestly, can’t tell what is happening but in the midst of
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Spark 2.0 manifesto: 6 things entrepreneurs need to know 0
- Entrepreneurs
- August 17, 2016
Spark..ng, owned by Jason Njoku, is a Nigerian company which builds other companies with focus on Lagos based startup ventures with scalable revenue models. Having funded and built companies like Hotels.ng by Mark Essien, Drinks.ng by Lanre Akinlagun and Fikayo Ogundipe’s Totel.com.ng; it is evident that Spark is on a course to revolutionize internet startup
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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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