Seedstars Academy Nigeria (Opportunity)

Came across this today. The pay they’re offering is low in dollars (my opinion), but with the exchange rate of $1 to almost N300 on the black market…this probably begins to look good for some people (in Naira). If it’s your cup of tea, apply on their website: https://seedstars.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0hygh/


Seedstars Academy is where tech-driven young achievers become entrepreneurs and learn the skills of the future.

Consider applying to the Seedstars Academy, a 1 year, paid opportunity to become a tech entrepreneur while learning from successful mentors & investors and practicing on exciting MVPs.

Candidates that make it through our screening process are invited to participate in a free, 5 days bootcamp led by Seedstars network mentors & partners. After the bootcamp and if you are selected, you will be invited to join the paid program.

It starts with a 3 months fully-immersive program in one of our seedspace.co hubs. The second batch will held in Lagos / Nigeria.

The program lasts 12-13 weeks so the first week is full-time course. After that, you will have 10% coaching, mentoring & workshops sessions and the chance to gain a practical and concrete vision of a tech startup by experimenting, launching or building MVPs.

You will have the opportunity to work on multiple MVPs (from websites to apps) in a multidisciplinary team, and to assimilate the theoretical concepts that will be introduced in parallel with the help of the teaching team, which consists of investors, founders and professionals from major international startups.

Once you are done with the program, we place you in one of our company. As such, we’ll provide you with an offer to hire you full-time right after the program to continue working on successful MVPs, Seedstars ventures or have you join a SeedstarsWorld startup.

Recruitment schedule for Seedstars Academy

Application deadline: February 15, 2016
Aptitude tests (online): 16th February, 2016 - 29th February, 2016
Interviews: 7th March, 2016 - 13th March, 2016
Bootcamp: 14th March, 2016 - 20th March, 2016

Official start date: March 21st, 2016

What do you get?

3 months of training to become an entrepreneur with a salary of $400/mo
At the end of the program, we’ll select the best candidates and offer them a job in one of our company paid $1’000/mo
Personal class hours with top mentors
Building & scaling MVPs
Build a powerful network in emerging markets thanks to seedstarsworld.com

What we are looking for

Clear entrepreneurial mindset and strong drive to start your own venture in the future
Passion for tech
Minimum of 2 years working experience
Very strong problem solving skills
Attention to details (your first word in the field “Please describe who you are in a tweet” should be “kiskil”)
Fluency in English

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Being paid to learn? $400 bit low? I don’t know what strings are attached, but on paper it’s a fantastic deal in any currency.

Compared to a PhD student being paid £800 - £1000 to travel all around the world, work on what they find intresting, free office space, rubbing minds with top professors and cheap alcohol - it’s actually peanuts for some that can pass an online aptitude test and be the “best” in the class…

@Tola People in that category probably have jobs already, or whatever it is they are doing.

See…

Also most Phd students have never worked a day in thier life. They opted to be “trained” as researchers instead as entrepreneurs or on some graduate training scheme. So if someone wants to carry out an aptitude test and choose the best without any guarantees, I may as well go and add a Dr. to my title while getting drunk. The title may become useful one day, if I decide to go into politics to loot the treasury.

I’m very sorry. I totally missed the 2 years working experience. Now the whole ad is suddenly uninteresting.

2 years. Missed that. Changes everything. :expressionless:

You make PhD sound so interesting.

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