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Nigeria’s Population Projected To 730 million People by 2100 – Says The Economist

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This is from the Economist and we are not smiling here. Is that an error for the Nigerian projection? Who can explain!


ON MAY 3rd, the United Nations produced its two-yearly update of the world’s population, which includes projections. … . By any measure, Africa is by far the fastest-growing continent.

 

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For perspective, if Nigeria were to have 725 million people as per this prediction that would give it a population density that’s still quite a bit lower than contemporary Bangladesh so it’s not inconceivable that this will happen. And though Bangladesh is very poor, there’s no necessary link between high population density and poverty. In 2011, the Netherlands is more than twice as dense as Nigeria.

 

IPO48 Kenya Scheduled August 12-14

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After the successful IPO48 that produced winners in all-girls M-Farm, the trio of HumanIPO, Quartz+c0, and iHub and are at it again. IPO48 is planned in Kenya as follows:

 

You apply to the event by filling out a personal application form on IPO48.org. This will automatically make you a user of the HumanIPO network.
 
Approx. 30 days before the event kicks off you will need to create a start-up on the IPO48 platform. You can invite max. two co-founders to your start-up team.
 
You will now be engaged by IPO48 online Rainmakers, who will challenge and help improve your start-up pitch. Depending on how you interact and the quality of your final version pitch, we will pick max. 15 teams to participate at least 8 days before the event.
 
If you do not want to pitch a start-up idea, you can join one. On IPO48 website you will be able to indicate different start-ups that you could see yourself joining at the event.
 
Important: Only the start-ups that are approved online will be allowed to pitch at the event.
 

Agenda

Friday, Aug 12 – event starts @iHub, Nairobi
Teams present their 90 sec pitch and find the participants they would like to join their star-up for the 48h event.
Saturday, Aug 13
On-site mentors engage and help teams. Work – work – work.
Sunday, Aug 14
More help from mentors and help with the preparation of the final presentations. Final demo, voting and prizes.

Prize-winning categories

  • Most disruptive start-up
  • Best hustling team
  • Best presentation
  • Most likely to get funded

 

The Investment

Teams negotiate with the Investor group. Investment deal announcement.
The 25.000 euro investment will solely be decided by the IPO48 investment team and will not necessarily relate or depend on any of the category winners.
 

Post workshop by quartz+co for entrepreneurs

Apart from the mentorship during the IPO48 event, have them teamed up with quartz+co to run a workshop in the business field adapted for entrepreneurs. The subject will be:

  • Build a business case
  • The business model
  • Sales presentation
  • Negotiations

[News Flash] Garage48 Lagos – The Winner is CallCamp, as Predicted. Fasmicro Wants To Invest

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Tekedia made the call 5am Nigerian time today that CallCamp will win Garag48 Lagos. It was just simple. And few minutes ago, it was confirmed.

 

CallCamp is the winner while Extramiles is second. CallCamp is certainly the choice. Congratulations: Temitayo Giwa, Ibrahim Lawal, Bankole Oluwole, Adedeji Adetunji, Awelenje Wale, Aguda Olabode, Damilare Onajole

 

In the mobile app, MyCash rules

This is a summary of our posts on this program and how it has evolved in Lagos. We are confident to predict the winner even before the final event. CallCamp Will WIN.

 

  1. CallCamp (Customer Service Aggregation Agency) – customer service is terrible in Nigeria. A service for companies to employ students to be used as call center agents. People can sign up as potential call center workers have a training (learning about the company and the product) – makes the call service available for smaller businesses.

Team members: Temitayo Giwa, Ibrahim Lawal, Bankole Oluwole, Adedeji Adetunji, Awelenje Wale, Aguda Olabode, Damilare Onajole

URL: callcamp.net

Twitter: @CallCamp

Facebook: CallCamp

 

We use this medium to invite the team behind CallCamp to talk to Fasmicro. We are very interested in partnership and investment in this company.

Excellent Guidelines For Informal Team Formation

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As we celebrate Garag48 in Nigeria,  we stumbled upon one really nice document they developed on how to work in teams, especially when there is no formal structure. This is a good document our budding entrepreneurs must look at. If you follow these guidelines, you will have success:

 

1. Set basic rules for team and project

Arrange a team meeting, be open and ask for every team members to describe their plans and commitment about the project. You can call this team members “commitment agreement”.

2. Intellectual Property and core team

Idea itself has usually little value. The Garage48 project result belongs to the whole team. If you really feel there is business potential, then form an active and skilled core team, who is really ready to work hard.

3. Time flies – just do it!

First 4-6 weeks is the most critical period after Garage48. If your product does not get passionate followers and decent user base, then most likely you are already failed.

4. Product strategy: Less is more

48 hours is great challenge to keep the focus. You just can’t go wrong, otherwise you wouldn’t be ready. Keep that in mind in the future. Don’t lose your product focus.

5. Bootstrap and develop the product!

Your goal is to develop the product and please your users. In today’s online world, you mostly need passionate team and a great vision. You don’t need big money to prove the concept.

What is Garage48?

Garage48 allows people to turns cool ideas into working products and services just in 48 hours. Teams are formed organically based on 1 minute pitches. The whole process involves lot of surprises and unpredictable. Many people come to Garage48 to have fun, get something ready, boost their motivation and find new contacts. Some people come for building a real business. 

 

 

 

Make Way For New ACER Tablet – Iconia Tab W500

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The tablet space is as hot as a Roman candle, but few of the new designs run Windows 7. Acer is changing all of that with the release of the unique Iconia Tab W500 tablet that has a detachable keyboard that turns the thin slate into a full-fledged Windows notebook. The Iconia Tab W500 starts at N85,000 and includes the keyboard dock.

The Acer’s 10 inch Iconia Tab features an innovative hybrid design that allows the user to use it as a multi-touch tablet or, when docked into the keyboard, have its function as a laptop computer. Under its hood, the device is powered by a 1GHz dual-core C50 AMD Fusion processor, with a Radeon HD 6250 graphics core built into the processor, 2GB of expandable RAM and up to six hours of battery life.

The HP tc1100 is a hybrid design of a slate with detachable keyboard. The tc1100 was the end of the useful hybrid designs, until now. The Acer Iconia Tab W500 provides the best of both worlds: a Windows tablet that is thin and light (2.14 lbs.) and a full notebook with the keyboard attached. The keyboard dock (1.34 lbs.) attaches to the slate with a magnetic linking mechanism designed for easy operation.

As everyone anticipates the arrival of the Motorola Xoom, the 10 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab and the BlackBerry Playbook as alternative tablet devices to the iPad, Acer’s Iconia Tab W500’s that debuted last week is set to fill that much needed spot in competing with Apple’s mighty slate.

The Iconia Tab W500 made its debut last week during a product launch by Acer. “The device runs a full Windows 7 Home Premium operating system instead of a modified mobile OS found on Android tablets and the iPad. Simply put, its a full computer that enables users to perform all the tasks they normally would on a normal computer without much fuss,” said an Acer official.

“In addition, attaching the tablet onto its keyboard dock allows the Iconia Tab to function just like a normal laptop computer, so you have a tablet and a notebook for the price of one. When you get an iPad for instance, you will still need a real computer in order to do real computer tasks. With the Iconia Tab, you get the best of both worlds,” he added.

Concepts Computers will also begin selling the Acer Iconia 484G64 dual touchscreen laptop computer, which also made its debut last week with the Iconia Tab. The Iconia 484G64 will be priced at $1,688 and will be sold alongside the Iconia Tab. “We are waiting for the first shipment of stock to arrive sometime this week, and we will tie in with a promotion for the first 100 customers who purchase the Iconia computers,” they added.

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