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#Startupsouth Video - Getting Prepared for Funding

Comms Week17 Mar 20160 Comments
#Startupsouth Video - Getting Prepared for Funding
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Mba-Uzoukwu is the immediate past general manager for Microsoft Anglophone West Africa and the Vice Chairman Demo Africa 2015. He sits on the board of several influential ICT companies in Nigeria. In…


Mba-Uzoukwu is the immediate past general manager for Microsoft Anglophone West Africa and the Vice Chairman Demo Africa 2015.

He sits on the board of several influential ICT companies in Nigeria.

In this video, Mba-Uzoukwu shared his opinion on the current state of the Nigerian Tech and the challenges in the ecosystem.

He concluded that The Problem is not money but the lack of preparedness by startup founders. He opined that there are too many mediocre chasing money in the system.

"If you went to school in Nigeria from the 1990's upwards, you're a product of a mediocre system and the first step in becoming better is to recognise what you don't have."

Watch the rest of the talk presented at #Startupsouth 2015. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPBD8cWy6o&feature=youtu.be).

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