African Founders – How To Raise Venture Capital In Twenty-One Tweets

Ory Okolloh’s observation that it’s more effective to front with a white face when looking for VC — which has gathered a fair amount of Twitter corroboration, by the way — is obviously what inspired the following 140 xter flood by Iyin on how to raise venture capital as a Nigerian/African founder. By itself, Ory’s tweet is a stringy piece of meat that African technorati on Twitter will still be chewing on a few days hence. But a tweet “rant” about raising VC, local and foreign, by around 4:30 am, Nigerian time, is a terrible thing to waste. Totally up to you what you choose to agree with and what to not. https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346829780072681472 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346830102010658816 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346830327265775616 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346830440147058690 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346830560922062849 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346830617876504577 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346830916800348160 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346831328211259392 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346831428656435201 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346831496830652416 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346831600664854528 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346831807758614528 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346831906190528512 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346832249896988672 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346832436031791104 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346832687585169409 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346832934768082947 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346832948873551872 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346833112879206400 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346833244865589248 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346834282557366272 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346835031353856000 https://twitter.com/iaboyeji/status/346835315102724096