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Entrepreneurship
Rise of the African Entrepreneur
Recently the World Bank reported that 43 per cent of sub-Saharan Africa’s population is between the ages of 0 and 14. That African countries
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Entrepreneurship
Apply for a spot at the Unreasonable Institute – November 30th Deadline!
Want to apply? The second annual Unreasonable Institute will unite 25 exceptional, young entrepreneurs for 8 weeks in the summer of 2011 in the
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Entrepreneurship
The 2010 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship Finalists
The judges have now concluded on-site business reviews for the 2010 Legatum Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship and selected the final 10 small and med…
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Case studies
Press Release: VC4Africa matches entrepreneurs and investors in Africa
Today VC4Africa starts the first African online venture capital matchmaking platform. Many investors are looking for businesses to get involved with b…
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Entrepreneurship
The team behind VC4Africa – meet our visual specialist Joshua Wanyama
On Monday November 1st VC4Africa will launch its new matchmaking platform. Hard to believe knowing we started with only a Linkedin Group and later
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Entrepreneurship
You want change? Time to focus on Africa’s entrepreneurs
Africa faces the challenge to provide better economic opportunities to its citizens, through sustained growth led by the private sector and to allevia…
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Case studies[Video] A Global VC4Africa Meetup, connecting entrepreneurs and investors
Second to networking online, VC4Africa makes use of the Barcamp model for events and organizes its own VC4Africa Meetups, otherwise informal networkin…
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Entrepreneurship
VC4Africa works to crowdsource the due diligence process
Due diligence is one of the limiting factors for those interested in investing in Africa. It simply costs too much to find genuine entrepreneurs
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Case studies
Business Model for VC4Africa
VC4Africa aims to connect aspiring entrepreneurs with the network, experience and capital needed to grow and scale their business. In the interest to …
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Entrepreneurship
Need for Venture Capital in Africa
In order to promote the development of the private sector access to finance is crucial. This can take many different forms form bank loans