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Entrepreneurship
Use the Business Model Canvas to visualize your business model
Are you an entrepreneur working hard to build a great new company? Have you already worked through all of the possible business models and
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Entrepreneurship
Is private equity investment what your business needs?
If you want to attract capital you need to make sure your business is ready for investment. You also need to understand how investors
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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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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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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
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…
