I started checking in with myself once each week. (I use these questions,thanks google). I also try to check in with some of the people I take care of. It helps me especially in setting up thing to do for myself each week. Here is me checking up on you, yes you! Yup, you.🧵
1. What was the hardest part of the past week for you?
Take time and answer yourself (be honest, you can write it down or just answer them as u read on). You can also ask/answer your person, friend, sibling or anyone you feel comfortable to talk to. If you have no one , my DM is open, I will mostly just listen not commenting much.
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African Creatives please think like startups. Look at your craft/talent/self as a product then ask yourself who your customer and audience + their difference. (Try using an empathy map to help you with that.) Then think of where that customer is going/future to align. Why? A 🧵
In 2020 Epic Games had a virtual concert with Travis Scott called the Astronomical experience. One could attend several times btwn April 23- 25. U could receive Astroworld Cyclone Glider, a couple of Loading Screens and Fortnite Astronomical Challenges! epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US…
Most of the DMs I have received are of people asking about the career and entrepreneurial opportunities in the gaming industry. Thanks for reaching out. For the benefit of all, (also coz the DMs are many 🙈😝) here is a thread on those Entrepreneurial&Career Opportunities.
Careers: There are 2 ways: game development side and playing side. For the development side: you can be an animator, music composer, designers, story/scriptwriter or developer, project manager/scrum master, all the other office, admin and operations roles can also apply here.
Playing side(I'll leave out pro players cz I feel they are entrepreneurs). Careers are mostly on the Esports side: Tournament host, coach/analyst, event and PR/marketing related jobs, community/social media manager, broadcast/production crew, Esports agent & the other admin roles
In Africa, we're still sleeping on gaming (both mobile and esports)! I don't think we understand the magnitude of that industry and the advantage we have as a continent! There are challenges but we still have mad leverage to build some things here! Let me explain that, ok?🧵
Africa's population is estimated to be 1.2B, with at least 200M people aged between 15 and 24 years. We also have the highest population growth rate in the world at 2.7% a year. This means a growing market/opportunity for gaming coz the populace will always be young!
By 2025, even with 1.05 billion sim connections and 614 million unique mobile subscribers and smartphone adoption reaching 65% of the total population, only 39% of Africans would be experiencing their mobile web on smartphones. Mobile penetration experiences growth in Africa YoY
Gaming is the biggest earning media sector, with an estimated $165 billion revenue generated in 2020. Here is 50 Years of Gaming History, by Revenue Stream (1970-2020). Mobile gaming is the highest earner, if you developing games, you know where to start. visualcapitalist.com/50-years-gamin…
To put this into business perspective, here are the 25 highest grossing media franchises of all time. None of them is a TV, news or even film making companies . Please also note that most of them make their money from merchandise! Do you know what that means? Community is key!
Let's break that down even further to see why all big tech companies are in on this. Here are Major Gaming Acquisitions in 2014
2014-Facebook acquired Oculus VR for $3.0B
2014-Amazon acquired Twitch Streamingfor $1.0B
2014-Microsoft acquired Mojang Games for $2.5B
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Eeehhh this academy thing is a bit intense if I must say! 8am training on a Saturday..... Like, huh? Anyway, Mino Raiola better be hitting me up in 7-10 years coz this is my GameStop stock....
Also this child must be at the academy 15mins before time because he doesn't like to be rushed or late!!! He woke me up at 6:30am saying...."But, you..... you are slow!" Eeehh! Are we sure this one is my child, really?
Lastly, his football idol is Kevin De Bruyne. I mean, come on! What level of taste does this child have? First you support Man City, in MY HOME? Then you say KDB??? (I don't hate KDB but jeeeez! Man Utd has 100s of options)
I honestly have major doubts! I need DNA test coz....
In 2020, Kenyan startups raised combined total of US$191,381,000 (Kshs 21+ Billion). That was 27.3% of the continent’s total investment. It was the largest amount of funding ever achieved by a single African country. @DisruptAfrica
This sooo HUGE! Let me explain why. A thread
Kenya is a small country by population with only around 53M people. Kenya is 7th in Africa, we are 3rd in East Africa, after Ethiopia and Tanzania. Accounting for 0.69 % of the world population. Ohh, and only 28 % live in the urban areas. So, mostly a rural majority populace.
According to Africa Infrastructure Development Index (2018) Kenya was ranked position 18 in Africa. The index looks at i) electricity; (ii)transport; (iii) ICT; and (iv) water and sanitation. All these are critical resources in growing a robust ecosystem.