What’s funnier than this? Hilarity…
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Lol. They didn’t even give a startup founder a chance to feature. Do they not see the irony in this?
It’s like a conference put together to tackle the subject of gender equality and the travails of the average female, but featuring a soccer team of only male speakers.
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It’s so funny,i couldn’t help but share. They are supposed to give strategies on saving failing start ups too. This lot have no clue.
All these Windows 98 men are the ones who will tell us why startups fail 
Orisirisi. These men should be in Eko club reminiscing about the good old days of highlife music
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It depends on what they’re talking about.
For all we know they could be giving tips on how to herd cattles more efficiently.
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…APC is a start-up
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I honestly thought that this was a joke!
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This looks like a Photoshop parody flyer.
From www.theinterview.com.ng
That’s really cool if it is. I had a good laugh
And ladies and gentlemen, this is how startups stop being cool. The old men are on it now.
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I really beg to disagree on the comments made on-here. The names I see on there are names of people who own businesses but only happen to be Politicians.
Probably,your view of what a startup is and is not,determines if you will be laughing at the event organizers or not. For Gods sake, if you will term companies like Black swan(a business providing counselling to high school students) ,Egusi Soupe and the lots as startups, why then does anyone think a Lai Mohammed or Sen.Aminu Masari , cannot launch an Okro soup startup? Or better still , a startup where Almajiiris are counselled or how about a startup where Broomsticks are manufactured?
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Lol I think your comment is very funny
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I guess in your haste to score one over me ,you failed to note the hyperbole on my comment.
Pity your level of ignorance, and the reference to a link from Paul Graham is probably the reason people like you may not go too far.
What is the difference between Egusi Soupe,and the Barbers shop,you used as a reference?
Aren’t they both Brick and Mortar businesses?Read ,think before posting. Currently ,I think you read,post and then think(bad recipe for a forum).
Thanks @lawwyy for understanding what an hyperbolic statement is.
And that is how this thread will go from the startup adventures of Lai to become a face-off of what is and isn’t a hyperbole, the right order of Read, Reply & Think, or if Paul Graham would have succeeded in Nigeria.
Anyways, where is that Goat Meat Popcorn (that is a brilliant startup idea…or is it business idea?
) I got yesterday with Origin Zero?
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Well like @manifest put it; APC is a startup and maybe it’s about to fail so they maybe unto something here, that is if this is not a very big joke.
@akindolu You cannot keep falling into this trap everytime na. Leave him-her alone. He-She just wants to standout and be controversial and hence get attention. Don’t feed it.
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My bad for feeding him/her with a reply whatsoever.
Commented on a similar topic…But my reply is still the same: “I agree with you in some aspects. But not entirely. Looking at the speakers, it is quite obvious that a few of them have a good enough background in business, and I think that is enough to qualify them. It’s like saying Bill Gates shouldn’t be able to give a lecture on start-ups just because he doesn’t run one presently; forgetting the fact that he’d gone through that hurdle in the past and should definitely be able to give a better presentation than someone who is currently struggling to take his start-up forward. I can see two CEOs on the list, and there are quite a number of politicians in Nigeria who double as really successful business men and captain of industries, and having gone to such a height means you know the dos and don’ts in running a business from bottom to top better than someone who is presently running a start-up. But I suppose it would make more sense to include younger guest speakers since we have a lot of daring millennials trying to change the status quo by venturing in various businesses instead of waiting for the government to provide jobs for them.”
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Agree with you @ngosayogie