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In Search of Nigeria’s Silicon City

By Loy Okezie On October 3, 2009 · 4 Comments

At a time when some states in Nigeria like Lagos and Ogun have set the ambitious goal to achieve a mega city status, one wonders if a silicon city is in their master plans.

By Silicon City, I mean…

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SeedCamp for Africa?

By Loy Okezie On September 17, 2009 · 9 Comments

Since I started watching the African Technology scene, I’ve seen quite a good number of start-ups from Africa with great potentials. I’ve also reviewed some like Afrigator.

While we’ve also seen several techn0logy events such as BarCamps in several…

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My Interview at DayoEdunjobi.com

By Loy Okezie On September 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

Today, I thought I should share some excerpts from a recent interview I granted over at DayoEdunjobi.com, a blog about Blogging, Internet Marketing and Social Media.

Dayo had very interesting questions about the state of the technology, startups and blogging…

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Would you Like your Startup Freeviewed on LoyOkezie.com?

By Loy Okezie On September 1, 2009 · 3 Comments

In the light of the popular saying: “Once a President, Always a President”, I guess “once a startup analyst, always a startup analyst“, right?

Okay, enough of rhetoric.

Since I started this blog on June 1, I’ve received quite a…

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Isn’t It Time for a “Technology Community” in Nigeria?

By Loy Okezie On August 24, 2009 · 8 Comments

It’s been about 100 days since BarCamp Nigeria gathered software and mobile applications developers, technology enthusiasts and entrepreneurs in Lagos, Nigeria where discussions on building a tech community in Nigeria amongst others were highlighted.

“BarCamp was

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Mobile Web Africa @ Johannesburg, South Africa

By Loy Okezie On August 6, 2009 · 3 Comments

This week, I confirmed my participation at the forthcoming Mobile Web Africa Conference in Jo’burg, South Africa on October 13 & 14, 2009. The event being organized by All Amber, is poised to be a…

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Why You Should Start a Business, not a Startup

By Loy Okezie On August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Jason Fried at 37signals.com has an interesting piece which I thought is worth sharing here…

Startups can bring new ideas to market. They can give people a chance to change the world on their own terms. They

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How to Successfully Re-Launch Your Startup

By Loy Okezie On July 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Perhaps you’ve launched a startup which has become very popular on the web space, and for some reason, you had to re-launch the idea, website or features of the startup.

Recently, Silicon-based startup Synthasite founded by South African entrepreneur, Vinny…

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5 Key Factors to Creating a Startup Hub in Nigeria

By Loy Okezie On July 5, 2009 · 14 Comments

A few years ago, an ex-Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, said

…the Nigerian government has worked out to invest 600 million US dollars (about 100 billion Naira) to establish

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UK Government To Fund Tech-Startups With £150 Million

By Loy Okezie On July 3, 2009 · 1 Comment

According to UK’s largest business start-up community, Startup.co.uk

UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown announced earlier this week that the government would invest £150m in high growth technology businesses. The UK Innovation Investment Fund will focus on growing small businesses, start-ups

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