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Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing

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Post by mahmud »

Ardit20 wrote: post #22
BenWalker wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Put North Korea on the map!

It would probably be 0, or 1. Apparently in Cambodia it is only 70,000 or so, the lowest I found from quickly looking at "bad" countries. Iran has millions! Even Cuba has plenty. Must be sad to live in North Korea.

Cambodia has internet cafes nearly everywhere in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. I volunteered for an NGO sponsored project to improve internet penetration, but it was quickly shelved after the first initial meetings when it was shown that Khmer business people were opening cyber cafes at an astronomical rate. So we decided it was better to stimulate the local economy by not meddling with it, and ruining these businesses with landfill-grade donated computers and imported expertise.

It was amazing to see motorcycles with saddle-like bags delivering Acer computers to dusty markets :-) They're usually carefully wrapped in multiple layers of plastic and styrofoam to protect from the elements.

Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing

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Post by adityakothadiya »

arnorhs wrote: post #14

Perhaps even more relative: internet penetration of the 16 largest countries by population: http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_us...

Wow! China is a huge market. I know it was very big, but didn't know it's this huge. I wonder if China has equally good Startup ecosystem like USA which promotes innovation and entrepreneurship. Also, another question is - do US startups even have a strategy to focus equally on Chinese market like US market? If yes, how do they go about doing that?

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Post by Retric »

adityakothadiya wrote: post #32
arnorhs wrote: post #14

Perhaps even more relative: internet penetration of the 16 largest countries by population: http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_us...

Wow! China is a huge market. I know it was very big, but didn't know it's this huge. I wonder if China has equally good Startup ecosystem like USA which promotes innovation and entrepreneurship. Also, another question is - do US startups even have a strategy to focus equally on Chinese market like US market? If yes, how do they go about doing that?

Don't be fooled, if you consider income or even worse spending China is still a tiny market. 20 years from now it might be far more important, but for now it only has a voracious appetite for a small number of imports such as Oil and industrial secrets.

Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing

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Post by arnorhs »

Retric wrote: post #34
adityakothadiya wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow! China is a huge market. I know it was very big, but didn't know it's this huge. I wonder if China has equally good Startup ecosystem like USA which promotes innovation and entrepreneurship. Also, another question is - do US startups even have a strategy to focus equally on Chinese market like US market? If yes, how do they go about doing that?

Don't be fooled, if you consider income or even worse spending China is still a tiny market. 20 years from now it might be far more important, but for now it only has a voracious appetite for a small number of imports such as Oil and industrial secrets.

Well, that just means it's a great time to get into that market. If had already become huge and spending was huge, there would be lots of startups focusing on china.

Perfect time to start laying out some groundwork.

Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing

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Post by hoop »

adityakothadiya wrote: post #32
arnorhs wrote: post #14

Perhaps even more relative: internet penetration of the 16 largest countries by population: http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_us...

Wow! China is a huge market. I know it was very big, but didn't know it's this huge. I wonder if China has equally good Startup ecosystem like USA which promotes innovation and entrepreneurship. Also, another question is - do US startups even have a strategy to focus equally on Chinese market like US market? If yes, how do they go about doing that?

I think it's important to consider population, so maybe measure Internet penetration as a percentage of the population.

For example:

Internet Users in US: 230,630,000 Population of US: 307,006,550 people

That's roughly 75% of the US population.

Internet Users in China: 298,000,000 people Population of China: 1,324,655,000

That's roughly 22.5% of the Chinese population.

However, by looking at the graph, we can also see that the growth of the Internet population is growing (exponentially) at a much faster rate in China than it ever did in the US.

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Post by acangiano »

jeb wrote: post #5

The president of Nigeria already has 126k fans on facebook http://www.facebook.com/jonathangoodluck and 1700 comments for each of his daily posts. That's impressive considering that his account is just a couple of months old.

That's small consolation to him; his brother, former president of Nigeria, died last year leaving several million dollars behind. They are currently trying to recover them through the aid of western citizens.

Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing

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Post by jeb »

acangiano wrote: post #39
jeb wrote: post #5

The president of Nigeria already has 126k fans on facebook http://www.facebook.com/jonathangoodluck and 1700 comments for each of his daily posts. That's impressive considering that his account is just a couple of months old.

That's small consolation to him; his brother, former president of Nigeria, died last year leaving several million dollars behind. They are currently trying to recover them through the aid of western citizens.

See here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525639
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