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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

Tech Zulu Event

LAGbook was founded in 2010 by two twin brothers Chika and Chidi Nwaogu when they were just 19 years old and freshmen at University. Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. LAGbook is an African-based social network for meeting new people everyday.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. The skills and networks inherent in making the early bet are consistent with the funds that play in this category. The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Here are a few perspectives on it: Building a sweat equity team You simply need to network. So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.), It can be done, but it’s hard. Go to user groups. Refine your elevator pitch.

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Feel Lost On LinkedIn? ExploreB2B Wants To help You Network With People Of Your Profession

Tech Zulu Event

ExplorerB2B is a free to join exclusive network of experts who share information that matters to you and make sure you expand your professional network, interact with a relevant audience and present your expertise. We launched the first publicly available (German) Beta Version of exploreB2B at the end of 2010. How does it work?

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

25 Years of Writing Code. Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. Established In 2010 By PayPal’s First Head of US marketing.

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5 Reasons Why Businesses Still Love Microsoft

Tech Zulu Event

Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use. Xbox LIVE has nearly 40 million members, making it the biggest social entertainment network in the living room. Kinect for Xbox 360, released in November of 2010, sold 8 million units in the first 60 days of its release.

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