startups2 0-100419031857-phpapp02 n igerian story
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Digital Sense Forum 2010Lagos – Nigeria
April 16, 2010
by Loy Okezie
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The first dot-com registered company was Symbolics in 1985.
The dot-com boom started in the 90’s and Amazon was launched by Jeff Bezos in 1995.
Nigerian-born Chinedu Echeruo founded HopStop.com in 2005.
OnePage was launched by Osita Nwoyeand Joel Gascoigne in 2010.
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What will be the next big thing on the web?
Will you be the next youngest internet entrepreneur?
When will you launch your own internet company? 2015? 2020? 2030?
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A crowd-sourced directory of eateries in Nigeria that supports location-based mobile applications.
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A match-making site that lets you find a life partner or true love and allows you to reach millions of potential marriage partners.
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A social bookmarking site that allows you to share music, videos, articles, read news and also promote events and services.
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An e-commerce site that provides ticket sales, marketing and distribution services as well as connects the world to live entertainment events in Nigeria.
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Arguably the largest social networking site with over 500, 000 members.
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A social music platform designed to support Nigerian artists, fans, local music and the entertainment world at large.
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A free subscription service that lets you stay hooked-up through your mobile phone with celebrities, personalities, groups, interesting people and businesses.
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A service that lets you send instant short messages in form of classified ads via SMS from your mobile phone to the web.
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An online marketplace that allows you to buy, bid or sell anything.
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A powerful search engine focused on the Nigerian web market with a lot of features and search relevance that may leave Google feeling woozy.
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Technology Community? Stiff Competition?? Poor Infrastructure??? Source of Power???? Lack of Venture of Capital?????
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HopStop (founded in 2005 by ChineduEcherou) provides subway and bus directions for New York City (NYC) and other cites around the world.
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OnePage was co-founded by Osita Nwoye in 2010 as a digital platform for creating, sharing and storing real-time business/contact cards.
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SocialCubix is a Facebook and Social Media application development company launched by Udoka Mark Uzoka in October 2007.
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Mobile Apps (Blackberry, Nokia, iPhone) Location-Based Services (Foursquare, The
Grid) Social Search Engine (Aardvark) Crowdsourced Business Directory (Yelp) Mobile Payment (Mpesa)
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Provide early stage investments as a community of smaller investors.
Build technology incubators across several states.
Integrate latest web-related courses and degree programmes in the University’s curricula.
Set-up a Start-up University for techno-entrepreneurs
Reverse the brain-drain. Join the Renaissance for technology innovations.
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http://www.startupsnigeria.org
Startups Nigeria is a youth-driven, online community for technology enthusiasts, internet start-ups, companies, entrepreneurs, investors and students, all pioneering innovations in Nigeria’s emerging start-up industry and Internet economy.
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To e-ducate, e-mpower and e-ngage with the largestcommunity of people interested in business start-ups,
entrepreneurship and innovations.
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To build Nigeria’s emerging dot-com startup industry and contribute towards a knowledge-based and Internet
economy in Nigeria by the year 2020 and beyond.
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http://www.myonepage.com/okezie
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