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Yes, we have lots of our youths doing great in the digital space. The ideas they have is out of this world. Very little funds are needed to create any solution around the digital space. All that is needed is the skill and the idea, that is all. Also, some Nigerians are running back to the country to start their businesses to be able to meet the needs of other countries. Someone met me last week about having a start-up around setting up charging stations for electric cars. If this is done, then electric cars will be available sooner than we think. We may have issues with power and bad roads, but I don't see it stopping the ideas of our youths The raw materials and people are readily available aside from the fact that you have to train them. Therefore, Nigeria is a fertile ground for digital entrants. It may be expensive at first but will become cheaper as time goes on. I hope I answered your question? Kindly feel free to get back to me with further questions.
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Hello Michael, You must treat your competition like your best friend, you always need to be ware of what steps they are taking, so you can stay one step ahead. In some instances, partner with your competition, they already have target audience you need, why not tap into that, if they are happy to.
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Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
There is a good chance that you will be able to do this, you will most definitely need to start off with a Master's program then transition to a traditional PhD program. Many programs favor students with relevant degrees (Computer science, electrical/computer engineering, math, etc.) for admission into their programs since they have the necessary background to understand the basics of computer science.
Chinasa T. Okolo
Managing Director & Computer Science PhD Student @ The Diasporic Group & Cornell University
I think this is a bit dangerous. Attempting to ascertain sentimental correlations and apply them to huge financial decisions may work in certain contexts and you could definitely train a model with 99% training accuracy on this task, but future situations that are dependent on complex human action can never be adequately represented by a numerical parameterization and a finite state machine. If the model is not large enough, we will not learn all the possible combinations of interactions. If it is too large, then we only learn the context of our training dataset. That being said, you could do both and get good results during training. Personally, I do not have extensive NLP experience or Bayesian experience in production, but their fundamentals suggest that they would learn this type of model well independently or in conjunction. Naïve Bayes is good for state estimation-based decision making, and NLP can be used to model language and extract sentiment. However, these models depend completely on the input dataset that one utilizes, and the chosen labels (if using a supervised method) that are often subjective. Using data from the internet is also dangerous because it is next to impossible to have humans annotate every piece of training data without spending a large amount of money, and learning from problematic input data can lead to problematic situations.To make this less vague, take the 2016 example where Tay, a chatbot made by Microsoft and trained on Twitter data, became extremely racist in less than a day of online training (https://twitter.com/geraldmellor/status/712880710328139776). Attempting to determine causation in a data driven sense is a slippery slope, and until AI solves the data-driven generalization problem (which I believe may be never) I wouldn't build a system like this in production until I could guarantee significant human supervision and have looked at the ethical implications on those who do not financially benefit from the proposed system.
Ifueko Igbinedion
Doctoral Student @ MIT
You can say that all ML is data-centric since this is the basic facet machine learning models need to function. Fairness is a growing topic that is fortunately receiving much needed attention. Companies and individuals are realizing the harms that ML can pose and are actively working to address this. Explainability is also a big factor in making ML models fair but is critically understudied, especially in the context of making ML "explainable" to those with lower technology or AI knowledge. Security can be a big issue but is usually handled on the networking side of things (data storage, transmission, etc.).
Chinasa T. Okolo
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The most amazing things about Skill Haven are;
We have created tangible impact in the mushrooming crypto space in Uganda. Some people who have been part of our education programmes and events have picked up crypto/blockchain focused careers like crypto content creators, journalists, writers, Web3 developers, influencers etc
The other most interesting thing about Skill Haven is that we are the only crypto & Blockchain Education focused start up in Uganda.Skill Haven has various programmes and we've reached out to over 500 participants in our education programs through open public events/meetups and personal encounters. I can't point out the most amazing thing but people are making great strides in the crypto & blockchain space and that is our ultimate pride.
Ainomugisha Barry
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Just like life, politics largely gives you what you negotiate for. One important ability needed for negotiation is the ability to listen. To be able to respond rightly, you need to listen rightly. Thinking ability is equally important because you need to critically weigh options in the course of negotiation. Self confidence can also make the other party believe in your judgement and accept.
Bright Agropah
Author. Speaker. Reformist
Hi Joy, The best way to answer this type of question is to say something that would not impact the organization’s effectiveness in any way. Also after stating your weakness, talk about what you are already doing to translating this weakness to strength.
Adebayo Ajayi
Project Deployment Manager, West and Central Africa Area @ British American Tobacco
What is the duration of your preferred exit/ROI when you invest?
- 7-10 years (although we might sell a % shares earlier to lock profits in secondary markets)
What are the top 5 criteria you consider when investing?
* Large Market Size
* High Quality of team
* Really painful Problem / real market need
* Distribution/Acquisition Channel
* Simple business model
Since your journey investing, what has been your biggest mistake and lesson learned?
* Not sure I''ve made a big mistake yet, but we''re still early and mistakes are part of the journey
* My biggest lesson is the quality of the team matters most, so invest in quality founders that I can see myself working for.
What are top sectors you have invested in?
* Fintech
* Crypto
* Education
* Just done a deal in social commerce (TwoCents Exclusive)
As a startup, what should i think of or put in place before contacting an angel investor or VC?
*Have a product, show you can build something and have some users
I understand the risk of investing in start ups, how do you react when a startup you invested in does not produce good returns or fails?
* I expect at least 70-80% of my investments to fail
As an aspiring venture capitalist, what is are the steps in being one and your general advice?
* Start a startup and learn from the experience
* Try writing an investment thesis/memo on a company that hasn''t raised money and why you would invest in them, check out opentraction.com for sample investment memos
Yele Bademosi
Investor @ Microtraction
I’ve worked on many projects, including clustering error detection for hotels and travel, robotic based touch device testing, visual tracking apps for virtual reality, firmware for automatic glucose testing, mobile vision research, and a variety of deep learning tasks. Personally, the projects that I enjoy the most are those that actually provide value beyond financial benefit for companies, so I didn’t particularly enjoy any of my internships, which was a large motivation in pursuing a PhD.
Ifueko Igbinedion
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