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Entrepreneurship
Rick Harington’s MarketFleas secures funding
Today I jumped out of my chair when I got this e-mail from Rick. He writes, “Hi Ben, We finally finished our investment round
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Entrepreneurship
Join us at the next VC4Africa meetup!
The new year is getting off to a great start and the VC4Africa community is growing faster than ever. Clearly it’s time to do
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Case studies
VC4Africa history and update current operations
VC4Africa was started as a LinkedIn group in the spring of 2008 and has grown organically into what is now the largest online community
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Case studies
VC4Africa reflects on 2010
Dear Members, We hope this e-mail finds you, your colleagues and families well and together for the holidays. We have taken some key steps
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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
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 …