Do Great Products Sell Themselves?

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1. FAAN is working with ride hailing companies on a framework for airport pick-ups. Until agreements are signed, no ride hailing company is formally authorised to pick up passengers from Nigerian airport terminals.

2. Terra Industries, a Nigerian defence-tech startup, raised $18 million in seed funding.

3. Terra Industries has appointed former SpaceX executive Ben MacWilliams as vice president of strategy, where he will lead market entry, licensing, and government partnerships.

4. Absa Group is considering converting its Nigerian representative office into a merchant bank, potentially expanding its role in financing businesses in the country.

5. Standard Bank Group, South Africa’s largest lender by market capitalisation, is in talks to acquire a stake in Chinese-backed OPay ahead of the fintech’s planned US IPO, which could value it at $4 billion.

REMOTE JOB OPPORTUNITIES

1. Kashia Limited is looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer.

2. Virtual Nation is looking to hire a Web Developer.

3. MyJobMag is looking to hire a Content Writer.

4. Moniepoint Inc is looking to hire an Associate Product Manager.

5. Kora is looking hire a Junior Partnerships Analyst.

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1… Is marketing non-negotiable or the product will sell itself?

Harri reiterates it

Seun said it’s not entirely true that he spends more time building than marketing

“A good product actually sells itself”

Seun doubles down to say Polytope doesn’t even hire salespeople

Harri responds, he says “Tesla runs no ads” is misleading

2:

They said it’s because we don’t know what marketing is

This is insightful

2…. Awon vibe coders😂

3… This is not even possible, I never make am for this tech thing

Thankfully a lot of funding has been going into this

Shitty 😭

4… Oura Health is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by consumers in San Francisco, which accuses the company of overstating the sleep-tracking accuracy of Oura Rings.

An alleged customer’s comment

Altea believes it’s pseudoscience

5… Some of you are really top kids oh

I still don’t know my second number

That is what he wants oh

Legit

6… Ehen! Very good

What are you people always looking for

You people should take note

7… If you didn’t come across this last week, were you on the internet??

The internet was split

Some couldn’t believe she tried such

Sowore believes it was a class play

And urges UBA to provide psychosocial support for her following the public backlash

8… Someone offered him 40% and he said NO

He said he has seen various sides of startups for him to have this rule

Ouch

It’s still something

Or is he simply looking for attention?

9.. Back to Mr Tony, Bleh said she is surprised that Mr Tony was not as eloquent

But people argued on the importance of eloquence to his success

Daddy Faith was not having it

He reiterated that you can be successful without being eloquent but it still doesn’t devalue the power of of eloquence

Someone then accused Daddy Faith of using ChatGPT

He went home on him

And said such accusation does not incentivize the direction the world is going

Una dey talk oh

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