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While I enjoyed your story, it's quite ignorant to ask people to be wary of "Nigerians in general". NOT every Nigerian is a scammer so making such a statement is unnecessary. There are many hard working Nigerians around the world.

I get the motivation but this is pointless. Bloomberg should focus on ways to make healthy food less expensive. Now that is something that would definitely make a real change

Are you based in the US or overseas? If not, where are you located and if in the US, have you explored online money transfer services? Seems like that would solve your problem

Interesting piece and makes sense. It pretty much embodies what lean is all about but in a way that works for people who might now know what lean is but understand what lean attempts to do

Dale's book is definitely a must read. Matter of fact, I would argue that you should read that first before anything else

good stuff...it's pretty much the basis of the lean start-up model

7 years later and this is still truer than ever.

Starbucks was once a "new experience" for people who enjoy their coffee now. You paid to try it for the first time whenever you did....unless of course, you tried it via some free Starbucks promotion, liked it and then became a paid customer.

I don't think it's broken. I just personally feel the information should be displayed better. Email just needs a better UI/UX. For example, Microsoft did a great job with the outlook interface, it's still the same old email and I can pretty much do everything I can do with Gmail with it but I signed up because the UI looks much better. I don't feel so "bombarded" when I log in

I agree, pre-launch sign-ups are important but there needs to be engagement with the emails collected until the product is ready. Fab did a great job with this by creating a mood board that allowed folks to post stuff they like before their actual service launched.

A flash sale is a discounted sale that is available for only a very short period of time. It's the model used by companies like Fab, Groupon, Living Social etc. Anyone or business can pretty much do a flash sale for anything they would like to sell.