Mark Essien

Graphic designers and programmers are two people who need to work with abstractions a lot, and because they are so used to them, they often forget that dealing with the abstract is very difficult for many people.

When you launch your web application, desktop software or any other type of software, the biggest problem you are going to face is very simple, but very hard to solve: People will not find your application.

Co-founders are both the most important thing that your company needs and the most likely reason your company will fail.

I was alone in the center of a small Chinese town, the weakly glowing streetlights hardly illuminating the streets.

A few years ago, I was consulting in the technical department of a big company that makes electronics.

We spent two weeks designing and creating an iPhone app.

In 2004 I was in Brazil, walking down the hill in Lapa to get some lunch.

Hello This is raw HTML, inside Markdown.

I’ve always been fascinated by hydropower as an alternative power source for people in the Niger-Delta, which is where I come from.

I’ve been on freelancing sites for 10 years, first as a coder (I used to be a top 10 coder for a few months), then I migrated to being a buyer.

I’ve observed that most people, at some point, have a hit.

I regularly do work with MKE Verein Foundation to improve education and standard of living in Africa.

The Standard Mpeg Encoder was a set of DirectShow filters for encoding video streams to the MPEG formats (1, 2, 4).

Gnumm (Gnutella Media Machine) was a file sharing software I developed around the year 2000.