Having a sit down with the Figma African lead was a pleasure. As it opened eyes to what the San Francisco based company is doing in Africa, for Africans. Namnso Ukpanah leads Figma in Africa, and so far has been gaining traction quite well amongst designers in the continent. The ...
To succeed with your tech startup, you surely have to take steps other successful ones took and avoid mistakes they made too. Mark Essien, founder and CEO of hotels.ng is no doubt, a successful tech startup founder. His startup has received funding from various investors like SPARK, EchoVC, and so ...
Nigeria's HotelNowNow wants to give hotels more business by linking travellers with hotels allover the country and in every city. According to Adebimpe Afolabi, Media Specialist for Hotelnownow.com, "Hotelnownow makes it easy for you to seamlessly get a Hotel room ahead of your arrival anywhere. And the best part is ...
Online hotel booking platform Hotels.ng this morning announced it has secured an investment of $1.2 million from international investors EchoVC Pan-Africa Fund, a seed-stage technology fund, and Omidyar Network, the investment vehicle of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. The funding round follows on from the company’s 2013 seed investment of $225,000 ...
This is a guest post written by Mark Essien, founder of Hotels.ng - the biggest hotel booking website in Nigeria. The article was first published on Medium here. I am 100% convinced that the incubation model in Africa is fatally flawed as a method of creating big software companies. Of ...
Via Press release: Online hotel booking platform, Jovago.com today launched a tool dubbed the Best Price Guarantee to ensure users get the cheapest hotel prices for all its 6000 properties in the country. This tool, according to some, will help the Rocket Internet-backed firm take on Hotels.ng among others in ...
