“Andysputed” posts will be about my love of professional wrestling. Expect to see match and show reviews, essays about wrestling as a media product and as a business, storylines, and backstage mess.
Continue reading “Andysputed: Xavier Woods vs Jey Uso (IC Title Match)”What Investors Want, And Why Founders Don’t Want It
Still thinking about the UK Nigeria Tech Hub’s COVID-19 survey, and the difference between what investors said and what startups said is funny and instructive.
When asked what their startups needed to survive COVID-19’s effects, here’s what founders said:
Continue reading “What Investors Want, And Why Founders Don’t Want It”Healthy Runways: Which Startups Can Outlast COVID-19?
The UK Nigeria Tech Hub ran a survey to measure COVID-19’s impact on Nigerian startups. I finally got around to reading it, and it was well worth the 20 minutes. One section of the report looked at “runways”: how many months different types of startups can keep paying their bills for, using only money already in their accounts.
Continue reading “Healthy Runways: Which Startups Can Outlast COVID-19?”Adaptor Sector: Selling Streaming By The Sachet
His name is Gabriel, and he sublets streaming services for a living.
I intended my first Adaptor Sector entry to be about agent networks, but yet another exchange on Twitter brought an Adaptor to me that I just HAD to talk about immediately. Someone I follow was looking for someone willing to add him to their Netflix account, in exchange for him adding them to his Amazon Prime. He said he couldn’t afford to pay for 2 streaming services.
Continue reading “Adaptor Sector: Selling Streaming By The Sachet”The Adaptor Sector: New Vocations Plugging Analog Africa Into The Digital Economy
Africa needs more jobs. That’s no secret.
One place we’ll find them is in new vocations that extend the digital economy.