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We present to you Shirin, founder at clapglobal.com - a startup that links travelers around the world with schools at their destination countries in a bid to foster interactivity, knowledge transfer, and openness across diverse cultures. In a self referential turn of events, the episode itself became an interesting bridge between our cultures (Shirin is Indian) that it was only fair to cut this episode short and record an extra.

Closing song: "Building All Is Love" from Where the Wild Things Are (OST)

We open with a discussion on loyalty/rewards solutions and how they fare in Nigeria compared to the west and asked Uzo a couple of questions on the plans for his own product. Tolu shared how a dead millionaire trolled a couple of families into making more babies and scratched the surface of what it's like to be a woman in tech.

Closing song: "Like Water" by Joey Bada$$, Capital STEEZ & CJ Fly

In what was supposed to be our first episode with Tolu joining as a cohost, she abandoned us mid episode for activities regarding a pool party she was at. We discussed our activities from the past week and news regarding Uber and Netflix. The episode came to a close with the team welcoming a certain TemiL to a certain forum called Radar.

Closing song: "Blame It On The Boom Boom" by Black Stone Cherry

We have our second solo guest - Tolu Agunbiade (calling in from Chile). We spent a little time reflecting on our past adventures and played a little rating game. One of us once cried in a car and another absconded with company property. You'll have to guess though. Once again, we discuss the business side of startups from the angle of finding a product fit rather than building a solution looking for a problem. Overall, fun episode, or we would like to think it is. Happy new year folks.

Opening song: "Ave Maria" by Gregorian

Background music: All tracks on the 2006 "Christmas Chants" album by Gregorian, followed by select tracks from "The Dark Side of the Chant" by same band.

Closing song: "Open and Close" by Simi

Finally, we record a new episode. We apologize for skipping out on last week and as Uzo said, "life got the better of us". We discuss the subject of criticizing (or praising) Nigerian startups, possible use cases for the Techcabal.com.ng domain name, pornography, and bringing in unsuccessful people as guests on the show in the future. We thoroughly had fun recording this episode and were disappointed when we noticed irreparable issues with the sound quality. We sincerely apologize for what will probably make for a shit listening experience.

Closing song: "Not Strong Enough" by Apocalyptica

Sorry for the late recording of this episode. We will do better next time, promise. We explored the idea of creating a Shopify for streaming websites and while Uzo thinks it's brilliant, Ezra thinks it's too niche and unless there is proof of market, people are better off stitching together services like they can today. We also looked at a bandwidth benchmark of cloud services, specifically Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean, and Microsoft Azure.

Closing song: "Find Your Wings" by Tyler, The Creator

Another episode across the atlantic - we better start getting used to this. Ezra hung out with the co-founder of Gigster and discusses his understanding of the product. Uzo tables his disappointment with the bulk of ideas presented at the recent Startup Weekend in Lagos and dives into a long-winding talk about some idea he's helping a friend with. We end the episode with how Ezra went to an Israeli restaurant to eat rice and chicken.

Closing song: "Killing Strangers" by Marilyn Manson

Our first episode over Skype. Ezra buys a hoodie and gets to do good work on Paystack. Uzo uses Code Igniter and expresses his luuurrrv for Nairaland. Mr. Secret gets some airtime, and Ezra gets borderline racist talking about a black Uber driver.

Closing song: "Carry Me Home" by The Sweeplings

This episode is a conversation over ice-cream with our four guests: two bloggers, a web developer and a business development lead.

We discussed how a gmail account could be a technical barrier to adopting a product, building focused products with no need for plugins, the power of Instagram, image curation as a way to reach your audience and why Uzo's parents don't use his web-apps.

(spoiler: they're not as practical as Ire's Personal Finance Tracker: Owo Mi Da)

Forgive the background noise. We were at Ice Cream Factory so we didn't have as much control over the environment.

Hope you have as much fun listening as we did recording :)

Intro: Holding a Heart by Girl Named Toby

Outro: Moneyball - Hodgy Beats

Finally, a theme song - sampled from Audiomachine's "Cat And Mouse". Uzo expresses his hatred for it but who cares, right? We talked about Uzo's experimentation with streaming data logs, the skull shaped (ooooh, spooky) asteroid that did a flyby of earth on Halloween, and yesterday's failed attempt to coordinate an installation of Arch Linux on a VM from commands provided over Twitch.tv by thousands of people worldwide.

Closing song: "What a Shame" by Shinedown