Are there any web startups in Nigera that have been acquired or make significant profit?
Nigerian Internet use increasing
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Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing
#52The data on India is interesting. I would have thought there would be more than 50 million internet users in India. That's only about 4 per 100 people.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.BBND.P2
These numbers might be projections
Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing
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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.
You assume that Internet access makes you happier. I'm not sure. At least they are spared a lot of distractions :)
They're also spared from distracting things like rice.
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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 se…
You've got a great point there but let me add something. The question if percentages or absolute numbers are valuable depends on the goal of your investigation. When you want to determine the technological advancement of a country going for the relative numbers should be the way to go. However when you want to determine if a country should be a target market for your startup/company absolute numbers are fine. Even though only 22,5% of the Chinese people use the internet 298,000,000 users is still a huge market. Definitely to consider targeting.
Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing
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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.
You assume that Internet access makes you happier. I'm not sure. At least they are spared a lot of distractions :)
I don't know about happiness. That is a very vague, subjective word which I am not sure it even means much in substance, but, if prosperity makes people happy, then yes I guess internet access makes you happy. So too, if autonomy, that is access to knowledge so that you have the means of pursuing your aims makes people happy, then yes I do think that access to the internet makes you happy.
So too I suppose if having better health information, satisfying the desire for fairness through learning of say if others get things on merit or other means, being able to see on video and talk for however long you want for free with your parents who might live in another town and you do not have the means to visit them... I suppose, even assume, that access to the internet makes you happier yes.
As for distractions, really they are laziness rather than distraction. I doubt people in the middle ages where fulfilling their potential and doing what they willed all the time. Besides, perhaps access to the internet can help you manage the distractions.
From the smiley though I suppose you weren't serious, but I do feel for the people of North Korea and I think we are a bit wrong to ignore their plight.
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A very extreme underestimation. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peop... * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_websites_blocke... * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_censored_by_searc...
About 30 notable websites are blocked, counting from the list you posted.
Even if an accurate representation of the firewall (which it doesn't seem ot be) are you arguing this is acceptable?
Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing
#57The data on India is interesting. I would have thought there would be more than 50 million internet users in India. That's only about 4 per 100 people. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.BBND.P2 These numbers might be projections
India is not particularly well off. It has a higher poverty rate than Africa, for example.
Re: Nigerian Internet use increasing
#58I believe increased Internet use
Will create jobs
Will decrease crude oil consumptionRe: Nigerian Internet use increasing
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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.
I've seen thai school teachers spend $10s of dollars on facebook games. In thai school teacher wages, that is something like like 3% to 10% of their monthly wage, which is significant. Don't underestimate a market like china. Protection from psychological traps like bad spending and keeping up with the jonses tend to be less there too unfortunately/fortunately.
It's somewhat like ignoring the teenager market.
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You assume that Internet access makes you happier. I'm not sure. At least they are spared a lot of distractions :)
I don't know about happiness. That is a very vague, subjective word which I am not sure it even means much in substance, but, if prosperity makes people happy, then yes I guess internet access makes you happy. So too, if autonomy, that is access to knowledge so that you have the means of pursuing your aims makes people happy, then yes I do think that access to the internet makes you happy. So too I suppose if having…
I suppose you're right. It was the rich man's bias, thinking that you don't need money to be happy. (That word again). Also, I didn't realize that you were speaking more generally.
Of course the lack of internet access is also related to other things (e.g. food shortage) that I didn't refer to.