Blog – VC4A
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Entrepreneurship
Meet the entrepreneurs solving problems with green solutions
We love entrepreneurs solving problems with green solutions. Meet the greenest VC4A entrepreneurs currently registered on the site. Here is a top ten …
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Entrepreneurship
Investors are heading ‘Into Africa’, says report
Invest AD Mohammed Al Hashemi, Head of Asset Management, 24 Jan 2012. By viewing this video or reading the following transcript you are agreeing
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Case studies
Barefoot Lighting, a social enterprise that focuses on providing affordable lighting
We’re experimenting with embedded video on the VC4Africa site. My feeling is that, while YouTube and Vimeo are great places to host video, they
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Case studies
VC4Africa hits 200 ventures and counting!
VC4Africa is pleased to announce we have 200 ventures published online. Today we welcomed Data Driven Insights from Uganda, a proven software program …
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Entrepreneurship
Follow Friday: Investors in Africa on Twitter
Twitter is our main source of news and updates and we like the ‘who to follow’ lists. That inspired us to start a new
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Entrepreneurship
SEED Award winner Kwaku Yamoah Kyei: ‘Social entrepreneurship is the future’
The annual international SEED Awards recognize inspiring social and environmental entrepreneurs. Last month Ghanaian entrepreneur Kwaku Yamoah Kyei fr…
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Case studies
Tips for building social traction for your venture on VC4Africa
Congratulations your venture has been published to VC4Africa! So now what? To be honest the process has just started :) The road to funding
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Case studies
VC4Africa and the emergence of an African startup culture
VC4Africa was started in 2008 and has since grown into a healthy and thriving network of entrepreneurs and investors. After experimenting with free co…
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Entrepreneurship
Promising entrepreneurs in Africa seek to be Unreasonable
The photo is of Mark Yeboah-Agyepong – he is the Aquaculture Operations Manager for Waste Enterprisers Ltd Entrepreneurs from 60 countries vied …
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Entrepreneurship
Info160: Location based advertising via SMS in Kenya
Also in the new year new ideas are coming in via the VC4Africa website. Let’s now meet the young Kenyan entrepreneur Nick Hargreaves Onyango,
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Case studies
REPORT – What happened at the first VC4Africa meetup in Accra?
Joshua-Derek Bossman tweeted Friday night, ‘Just leaving the #VC4Africa meetup. All I can say is WOW! A real pleasure meeting up with @Abocco, E…