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@Extom, am sure you are reffering to the word billionaires of today that arent made in Nigeria right ? and am not going after the billionaires mofo, am going for the future and making the world a better through what have learned and acquired in college.

If i can put up a dedicated team to pull of an idea and raise 100K am pretty sure i can do better than that after college.

PS: Neve compare your self with those billionaires from silicon valley and i guess you are reading too much techcrunch or listening to the bullshit of dropout and start a startup.

It’s a perennial question among entrepreneurs in the startup ecosystem worldwide: Is it better to get a degree, or does it make more sense to ditch college in favor of entrepreneurship?

This topic has always been challenging as those who’ve ditched college typically claim doing so was helpful for running a startup e.g steve jobs, mark zuckerberg e.t.c. and the chances of landing a job at the age of 17 without a college degree in Nigeria was even slimmer

Have always wanted to do something that will make an impact in the society which is why i started a startup called washlify with 2 pakistani programmers i met online through cofounders lab and one belarusian designer.

What is washlify? , Washlify is a mobile laundry service that allows people to search and place an order with the nearest laundromat around their location.

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To cut the long story short, we completed the mobile app and it was ready for launch.

We got featured on @techcabal and the buzz was going around the ecosystem, people were commenting asking when we are going to launch, customers were ready to pay any amount to remove the laundry problem and i was really happy to get those feedback and engagment with our pre-launch.

We were also invited for a pitch to enter the leadpath accelerator in nigeria but i blew that up because of my pitch.

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I didnt want to launch without registering the company, hire an onsite programmer, office space e.t.c, so i started looking for external funding.

Getting funding for your startup is one of the craziest thing i will advice anyone to try if you dont have connection unless if God is on ur side.

After sending 100 mails to investors with 0.1 reply, i didnt give up and i kept searching for someone who might be interested to the extent that i started calling mobile number of early stage investors

Read more at : https://medium.com/@wittytom/why-i-left-my-startup-to-pursue-a-college-degree-3bc75741b0e0

COME LAGOS NAAH

Secularist: Sorry i have been unavailable. I am back now and i would reply all the PM's.

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what is this for God sake ?? are u are web monster u jes place picture in ur web , ur domain self na wash !!!!!

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Fashola is working but kids don die now because there is not PD bridge for God sake ... akota for that mata !!!...!!!

I wonder how dem parent go feell ... early in the morning

Oh Allah help me make dere parents happy

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BluStreak: My brother, I taya for all these guys that call themselves developers & designers. I choke in awe at some of the things they refer one to as their portfolio, and they expect you to trust their ability to deliver after looking at those. Funny enough with my little or no knowledge, I can do better sincerely.

First am not here to criticize or spoil the career of another web developer like me, but what can a guy like me do when you see a web developer designing a bad and unrepresentable web design portfolio and keep saying that he need a job... I choke in awe at some of the things they refer one to as their portfolio, and they expect you to trust their ability to deliver after looking at those.

Example 1

https://rghost.net/50260642/image.png

This website is not good enough for a freelancing guy, this website looks like 1996 web development when there was no

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w3c standard

Good example for a freelancer

https://rghost.net/50260791/image.png

Example 2
This second guy is a monster.. ask me .. how will you f ***king launch your website without any web job done before but it cool i see why he can't even have one cause his website looks like a web cemetery

https://rghost.net/50260864/image.png

Link =http://www.vistaconceptz.com/

N:B am not here to abuse or spoil your job, but PLEASE FOR GOD SAKE don't ask for jobs here on nairaland unless you have a gr8t portfolio to show ur client.

I will keep finding and telling you the blunt truth !!!

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You called this recent job ? and you are proud of it !! wtf is happening in dis web development industry ? all dis kids are just spoiling jobs for us !! see dis saying that he designed this .. looks like dustbin !! i wonder who will be a dummy to give you job !! don;t you know HTML5 ,css @ all ni ? website jampacked together for ALLAH sake .

Successguilders: We can design that type of website am currently working on something close to that, it an online tutor site(personally), here are some of my resent works www.glorymfb.com
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