It was the 10th of November 2016.
myPadi.ng (previously Studacom.ng) won the pitching contest at the second edition of #StartupSouth, an annual gathering of startups in the South South and Eastern parts of Nigeria .
Without mincing of words, I owe much of what we’ve been able to achieve today to this event and Uche, the convener.
I have spent some 6 months cooking myPadi.ng in Ozoro, a rural community in Delta State and it was time to take it up a notch.
For me, this was the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey.
This was the very first time, I would pitch myPadi.ng.
Ideally, #StartupSouth2 was more of launchpad than an event.
Here I first met Oyewole of Ventures Platform who was impressed with the little we had done at that time and advised that I apply for Cohort2 of the Ventures Platform’s Accelerator program of which we graduated from recently with $20K in funding.
At no time would I have ever thought of running a Venture that will be featured on a widely read paper like Vanguard.
jonah solomon who was one of the resource persons made this happen.
The invaluable nuggets from Uchay Ariolu of Foodstantly, Editi Effiòng of Anakle, Olaotan Towry-Coker of Afritickets & Cranium One, Simeon Ononobi of SimplePay, Ngozi Dozie of Paylater and many more others culminated into what I may be today.
It was also a fantastic outing with smart chaps like Kelechi, Sokari Gillis-Harry of Mabiri, Tochukwu of EasyWaya, Chukwuma of Dressnice.com, Ability Elijah & Nduka both of MusicCloud (now Caketunes) and a host of others.
Its #StartupSouth Again
#StartupSouth aims to Connect, Expose and Attract Investment to Startups and Founders residing and operating out of South-South and South-East Nigeria.
This years edition which will be hosted in Aba, Abia State, Nigeria and its billed to be very instrumental as several mini conferences have been ongoing in five cities in the two regions.
The next stop is Asaba, Delta State, my home state.
So you’re wannabe entrepreneur, tech enthusiast, or a business mogul with patient capital to invest in startups solving real problems in a large market with a great team in Delta State and the SS/SE part of the country?
Kindly follow this link to register: https://goo.gl/R33tfB
You want to block out your calendar for 28th of September, 2017 in Asaba and 9th of November in Aba.