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Case studies
Angel investing in Africa (case study part 2): Screening and structuring the angel investment
Recently M-Kazi closed their seed round with angel investor Jerome Kisting. This interview is the second installment in a three part series (see part …
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Entrepreneurship
Angel investing in Africa (case study part 1): Canadian investor Jerome Kisting and Kenyan based m-Kazi
Recently M-Kazi closed their seed round with angel investor Jerome Kisting. This interview is the first installment of a three part series and abbrevi…
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Case studies
Entrepreneurs rising, research shows 72% of African students consider starting a company
The Association of Business Executives (ABE) is a British qualifications body, which provides a range of business management qualifications to more th…
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Entrepreneurship
The latest from the Kauffman Sketchbook – ‘Go be an Entrepreneur’
The problems and challenges in this world are really big. If we have any chance of leaving a better world for our children, we
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Entrepreneurship
Video: VC4Africa Nairobi meetup and the need for Angel Investors in the African startup space
This year’s second VC4Africa meetup in Nairobi that was held last week turned out the be one of the most international editions so far.
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Case studies
Growing investor support for Africa’s innovation sector
This past week was one of the most exciting for the VC4Africa community so far. Forty innovators from across the continent convened in Nairobi
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Entrepreneurship
Startup Knight Competition: on the hunt for a new generation of startups
Startup Knight is a competition for software based tech startups that are getting ready to start a viable business in South Africa. Byte Orbit,
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Entrepreneurship
The Lean LaunchPad – Taking Familiar Course Material to a new level.
I’m very impressed by this new video series just launched by Steve Blank. If you have enough broadband access to video in your part
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Entrepreneurship
EzPaySlip: Cloud based payroll system built to fit the reality of East African SMEs
On a regular basis we put ventures in the spotlight that have registered on our platform. Today we talk to Danish entrepreneur Michael Pedersen,
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Entrepreneurship
Ross Baird, Village Capital: ‘We are putting power over resources in the hands of innovators’
After successful events in the US, Brazil, India, China and the UK, Village Capital has now landed in Africa – Kenya to be precise. In partnersh…