₦airaland Forum

I FEAR OO

Danhumprey: Which day you start to dey book space like this?

nairaland is actually F U C K E D UP !!! NO MORE GOOD THINGS !!! I REP FB AND TWITTER

my own too is comming soon

admin is crazy !! NO MORE FRONTPAGE MATERIALS

mathematics : Garbage

English: Field Head

CRK: GODbless

Biology: Tinystick

Physics: Englishisdead

Computer: whocares

..............

HEY peeps
Happy new month .. back to business .. if you need customization for ur e-commerce site .. i can guarantee the best ... nd because of santa time ..

I will do it for u and pay me when am done

comment if u are interested

Na so bro but who cares .. if they no put am for FP !!! [quote author=#bizfirst#]I completely with you Dewittycoder!

We are a sorry lot...if you observe, many bloggers simply got into blogging because Linda is there and making it simple! (don't you see that 90% of blogs in Nigeria are celebrity, gossip or fashion centered?)

However, change is not anything we are good at! Don't be surprised that this post will receive very few comments and may never make FP.

Why? You just told the sad truth...and many are quite guilty![/quote]

d

dis shuld go to junk area nt frontpage !! beta threads dey that can help developers and programmers u no put frontpage na rubbusg !!!! mplwmwpdmwkdmkoenfewpnf;wejfmfwl;ifeifn make we dey do rubbish dey go thendfksdfosfmnklsnm;lk5fndkslfl;k5dnfk;nfkj5ifoniofwnfewfewfwefewfew

1. Your startup is a solution to a “WANT” and not a “NEED”. If you can remember your basic economics, you should know what “WANTS” and “NEEDS” are.

Quickly, I would define a “NEED” as something you have to have, something you can’t do without e.g. food, clothing and shelter, while a “WANT” is something you would like to have. It is not absolutely necessary, but it would be a good thing to have. A good example is music.

When developing your startup idea, ask yourself, “is what I am creating a solution to a NEED or a WANT?” According to the Nigerian Bureau of statistics 60.9% of Nigerians in 2010 were living in “absolute poverty” i.e. less than $1 per day.

Do you think that taking a hiatus to create a music startup to enable these people living in abject poverty listen to music amounts to a good use of your time? or “skills”?

2. Your startup is a clone of some popular first world website or application. The current fad in Nigeria is creating clones of Groupon.com. It once used to be Twitter clones, bulk sms and then Facebook clones.

Why coders still do this kind of beats me. Instead of cloning, why don’t you build on these sites and take advantage of things like Facebook’s “Social Graph” etc and develop innovative solutions?

Developing another DROPBOX wont meet the need of the average Nigerian, he has no need for it, and if he does why wont he go for the original? Patriotism? please!

Why would you clone when there are a myriad of problems you could develop solutions for? If you are developing a clone, ask yourself this question “why would anyone use this (***insert the name of your clone***) instead of the main thing (***insert the name of the website you cloned***)?” .

3. Your startup will require loads and loads of traffic i.e. pageviews with gullible people who would be ready to click on Google ads before it can generate income.

In Nigeria, there are no VC’s, no Angels, no startup accelerators, no Government support programs, no infrastructure, regular electricity supply is a pipe dream, Internet access is patchy and expensive, in short, “NO NOTHING”.

So it kind of beats me why anyone would base his startup’s business model on the benevolence of Google? In between the time your startup comes online to the time it can generate enough traffic to keep the lights on and the servers humming, how would you survive?

Do you have some gold bars stashed under your mattress somewhere? If not, why don’t you just develop a product where you can start charging from the very first day?

Despite the fact that 60.9% of Nigerians live under $1 per day and there are 90 million mobile subscribers in the country with at least 1 mobile phone, these phones have to be loaded with “call credit” by these people because communication has become a NEED and not a WANT.

So despite the grinding poverty in the country, the major Telco’s still declare mind boggling profits every year, with Nigeria now having the largest mobile phone market in Africa with 60% penetration.

So in order to be successful, develop a solution to a NEED and not a WANT.

4. Reading too much of TechCrunch et al. These tech blogs are written by elitist white techies who live in Silicon Valley where the difference between over there and here is like light and day. Any advice you can glean from those sites just isn’t applicable here in Nigeria.

If you think am wrong Please commment and tell me

Thanks

Will be happy if it makes frontpage

L0l ... am just a freestyle guy and actually ... if someone want's to contribute he wont check my english unless if he is not serious !!!

naijacutee: This would have been a great post, but your grammar let you down bro. You could make a great difference, please don't let presentation distract people from your great points.

Introduce fast fast so u can F U C K her quick quick

Yea Yea I booked 19 today ... we will all get one meat and viju milk

mumu dem be !! i dey sleep insside heat everyday i no shout #rubbish ... mofos

,,,,,,,,,,,,

.

Am in ... will design a website for the oshiomale protest !!!!!

STOP ALL DIS R.I.p and all dis i love ur scene !! start praying for him to enter heaven !! cause ................... i dnt know ... start praying seriously if u rilly love him .. today is sunday go to chruch and muslims brothers and sisters !!! start saying astagafriulahi !! for him

MARIAM wad up?? can we talk on pm

maryhaam: Rip Brian O connor ............God loves u more

. so sad he didnt die has a MUSLIM

.

Sometimes ,, Nigerian sucks with what they do .. actually ur website has sql injection so musefiu wanna do u gobe nw for not paying the guy .. in go jes blood hack ur website and deface am.. you guys are just a real NIGERIA. scamming people ...

Guys go back to google adsense and lave this shhit

Check ur email sir
Thanks

I dey come nw !! abeg open dooor ooo na all my family i dey come with cause we no get light [quote author=deejay_harry1]wella... [/quote]

u get light for ur house [quote author=deejay_harry1]who be this one wey just dey post vids anyhow here?? e don do johr ... [/quote]

!! wasted my mb to watch mumu and weyere videos !!! || seun self na dumb guy !! eish dumbest !!!! december first !!!! post

....