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The success story of Abiola, the Chief
Executive Officer of Gamsole, a mobile game
apps development company that currently
develops games for Windows phone mobile
and Windows 8 PC must be interesting to any
start-up in the technology ecosystem.
The software code warrior whose games has
over 9 million downloads around the world
linked his story to the support and mentorship
of Microsoft Nigeria.
Recalled that Gamsole added 19 games from
creativity to casual games to its inventions
and has on its stable, 36 apps.
Abiola who has won several recognitions,
including the 2010 winner of the Microsoft
Imagine Cup software competition in Nigeria
while narrating his success story said that, “I
started coding at age 15 and later went to the
University to study Computer Science.
“With my mentorship by one of Microsoft’s
finest developer platform evangelists as one of
Microsoft Student Partners, in 2010 together
with my team, we won the Imagine Cup
national finals in Nigeria and went on to
represent Nigeria at the Microsoft Imagine Cup
Finals in Poland. From then, I have been able
to develop myself to become an entrepreneur
to reckon with in the technology space.
“Growing up in Nigeria, I was always going to
the Microsoft office to get support from the
evangelist. This is something you don’t see on
other platforms. I got involved with Microsoft
when a couple of technology evangelists came
to my school, and the interaction with them
led me into taking technology and software
programming seriously.
“First of all, Microsoft developer tools have
the best support and online developer
community. Hence, learning any of these tools
is very easy compared to other platforms. As a
student, I was very surprised at how fast I was
able to learn frameworks like XNA game
studio and Windows Presentation Foundation
(WPF).


source vanguard,read more.... http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/nigerian-tech-start-up-attributes-success-story-to-microsoft-support-mentorship/