#117 FounderVine #SU54 Africa Tech, OG Tags, Affiliate marketing is like being an online sales person and more
This week I set up the structure of my personal webpage, did some commits and added FB OG Tags so when it gets shared in places like Whatsapp they come up with an image preview, the right text and title - I don’t want no funny ish happening 😂.
Prototyping
Insights
I miss Microsoft Encarta
Nostalgia to show you how far products have come
Postimage.org — free image hosting / image upload
Recommended image hosting website
(Unlimited Bandwidth, Free to use but compresses image)
Makers
The Open Graph protocol
I used this tool for my OG tags
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.
Affiliate marketing shop
Affiliate marketing is like being a sales person with commission
I still believe you need to build something you want and know how to build first.
How my friends and I grew our side project into a $17,000/month business
A story about how 2 founders started a two-person agency
Culture Chat
Startup 54: Africa Tech 2.0 Tickets in October
Foundervine have a great team, network and focus.
I would recommend this for anyone who wants to do impactful work
14 Black Inventors You Probably Didn’t Know About - ThinkGrowth.org
Many of us learn about the inventions of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and other white men, but how many Black inventors can you name from memory? It’s important to celebrate Black inventors because most of them did not receive the credit — nor profits — they rightfully earned all because of their race. This article is not about one group being better than the other, it’s about celebrating innovators from all walks of life, especially those who have been historically unrepresented and disenfranchised.
I got the opportunity to learn a design and prototyping tool from the ground up.
If you're not trying to be a fully-fledged designer or UX person would you use Adobe XD or Figma? I'm optimising for ease of use