4 Things That Helped Win World War II Which Are Unthinkable Today.

World War II was a deadly conflict, it killed millions of soldiers and innocent civilians. It was a war that had to be won at all costs. Some of the tactics employed are unthinkable in this modern day but they were what needed to be done in order for the allies to come out victorious over the axis.

1. Countless Human Sacrifice in the Front Lines: The Soviet's red army lost more than 10 million men in the eastern front. It was the necessary cost of stopping Hitler's troops march to Moscow with powerful weapons like the German machine guns and the Panzer tank. Endless ground troops were sent to face the advanced German weaponry. They were basically marched into a slaughter.

2. City Infernoes: A number of cities were completely set ablaze with air raids and fire fights when they were contended by opposing troops. Including Italian cities, the German city of Harmburg and the Russian cities of Kursk and Stalingrad. Thousands of civilians burnt in the blazes.

In modern day, Unless for military and communication targets, Cities are not indiscriminately targeted in warfare.

3. Poor Working Conditions in Weapons Assembly Lines: In the assembly lines of war hardwares in the US, workers worked very long hours in order to out manufacture and out supply the Germans in weaponry to the front lines. When the workers tried to unionize and strike, President Roosevelt threatened to enlist them in the army unless they returned to work.

4. The cost to animal rights: I'm not sure if there's an existing estimate on the number of horses killed during the war in Europe. The Soviet used specially trained dogs to deliver IEDs on a suicide mission to moving German vehicles.

5. Use of the Atomic Bomb: The US used the atomic bomb, twice, in order to take Japan out of the war. Atomic warfare is unthinkable today as it may lead to a full blown Global destruction.

The World today has many rules to conventional warfare that classify so many things as war crimes including the use of chemical or biological weapons. In the day of politically strong workers unions, PETA and the Hague, can desperate wars be won?

First Generation of Nigerian Startup Founders: Where Are They Now?

Around 2007, with cheap money flooding international investors' pockets, Global startup funding began to pick up at a fast rate. Funding had been undergoing sluggish growth since the start of the hangover from the dot-com crash.

Social media startups were popping up, digg, reddit, del.icio.us, twitter, were becoming sites you had to visit daily. Mashable was also coming up as a half blog, half social site. New entrepreneur networks were forming online and news of new funding was being shared daily. Optimism was back and so were new ideas.

This time founding a tech company wasn't limited to Silicon Valley alone. After the crash, funding got really scarce and the cost of starting and running a startup was hitting rock bottom. This opened the doors to many, including us, a few innovative Nigerians.

If we rewind 3 to 4 years back, I was already running my startup. The African Music Network, a music and discussion site hosted on only 100mb of server space. this was during the days of Styl Plus, Plantashun Boiz and Tony Tetula. In less than 2 years, the service had to shut down, and not because it didn't gain traction, but because it was extremely difficult to make credit card payments to the American hosting company and monetization in Nigerian didn't exist at all back then.

Now I run 9flix, One of the front runners in the future of Nigerian video entertainment, well, according to them > What You Get From Video On-Demand Services - Premium Times NG

Folabi Ogunkoya - I think Folabi is one of Nigeria's first Internet success stories. He co-founded CaramelLounge together with Lawrence Bassey-Oden during the early days of social networking when it was dominated by MySpace. MySpace was more American than Global (probably one of the reasons for its failure) so it was tough to meet fellow Nigerians or Africans via the network, mostly because there were few.

Folabi and Lawrence built caramellounge to solve that, and they sold the company not long after launch. It became Afriville and later shut down (probably because of dominance of FaceBook).

Folabi Ogunkoya is now an investment banker in the UK.

Solomon Sydelle - After the reign of MothelandNigeria.com, the one time biggest Nigerian site, which was never updated, Another patriotic lady took the reigns from Boomie, the owner of MotherlandNigeria. Solomon Sydelle was an early Nigerian blogger with Nigerian Curiosity.

Loy Okezie - Loy returned and settled in Nigeria to be a part of the developing startup scene. He has played a significant role, with his blog TechLoy becoming a news platform and a launch pad for Nigerian startups. Many Nigerian startups have taken to TechLoy to announce their launch or funding news.

Loy Okezie still runs a few tech news outlets including Techloy and partakes in many Startup events.

Francis Oghuma - The Naija educated and South Africa based outgoing personality launched an innovative idea of a social networking engine for Nigerians. Together with Nanje Mambe, the founder of the AfroVision group and now Njorku the Cameroonian job search engine, Francis launched Naijaborn as a smart social network for Nigerians, which has a searchable user generated database of the global Nigerian community.

Francisnow lives in Germany and has launched other digital media businesses like Sowambe, House of Picha, and a music discovery platform Jamoflife.

The Business of Nigerian Content Business | Case Study: Gimmesom.com

For a while now, I have been screaming that a great Nigerian content site needs to come out and take all the traffic. I even considered building my own site which will be easy to run and with lots of daily content flow. Nairaland is the one to beat here. Nairaland is a forum but it has let a lot of these blogs use social media to chip into it's market.

The site to be the one needs to have some news or current stuff, some interesting art and of course some really useful well written content.

One year ago, A friend explained to me her plans on developing a unique content site for the Nigerian audience. And now I am happy to say that the site has been live for the past few weeks, It has surpassed even my expectation in terms of quality, but I think the site isn't noisy enough to take the market.

Content is sometimes the quickest way to get into business and also has the advantage of high consumption. Gimmesom.com has the quality to be #1, needs more hands on the deck to tap into the Nigerian content hungry audience.  More hands for the feeding....

Beyond content quality, what exactly needs to be done?

Social Media: Gimmesom's sweet looking content needs to be all over Facebook and Twitter, It's already doing well on Instagram.. It needs to have at least a single Facebook post a day for a start, preferably posts with hundreds or 1000+ reach.

Content flow: Like i mentioned earlier The content flow frequency needs to be increased. may be gradually, content is king.

A Content Hub: The best way to sustainably get lots of content is by bringing other content sources together under one platform. Kind of like Nairaland on steroids.