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Entrepreneurship
Yo! Payments: Making mobile money transfer work for businesses
Many new ideas are coming in every week via the VC4Africa website. On a regular basis the VC4Africa team places a new venture in
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Entrepreneurship
Startup Weekend Accra: Setting up a business in 54 hours
The first Accra Startup Weekend is scheduled to take place from November 18 to 20 at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology in Ghana’s
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs harness the power of mobile in Africa, startups abound
What do Gerald Begumisa, Nick Hargreaves, Matt Toplis, Silas Okwoche, Churchill Nanje Mambe and Vince Diop have in common? They are all mobile entrepr…
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Entrepreneurship
Andrew Mugoya: ‘African app developers have to forge a niche in the global marketplace’
Although the newly published E-book ‘African Apps in a Global Marketplace’ by Andrew Mugoya is aimed at software developers, it contains useful advice…
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Entrepreneurship
TakeAwayGh: Ordering food online in Accra
Many new ideas are coming in every week via the VC4Africa website. On a regular basis the VC4Africa team places a new venture in
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Entrepreneurship
European Investors take a serious look at African startups
Presentation at Barcamp Cameroon Today we had a chance to connect with Dariu Trueb, a representative of Ringier AG, one of Europe’s largest medi…
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Entrepreneurship
Cameroon’s tech hub ActivSpaces connects with European Investors
Cameroon’s serial entrepreneur Churchill Nanje Mambe at Barcamp Cameroon Recent research done at VC4Africa showed that access to finance re…
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Case studies
Africa’s mobile opportunity, a look at Mobile Web Africa 2011
Today we had a chance to connect with Matthew Dawes, the Managing Director of All Amber. Specifically we wanted to talk about the mobile
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Entrepreneurship
Mobile apps tackle climate change in Africa [Interview Jon Gosier]
Today we had a chance to catch up with Jon Gosier, the founder of Appfrica and HiveColab in Kampala, Uganda. This time we wanted
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Entrepreneurship
StorySpaces: Sharing stories to re-imagine Africa
Many new ideas are coming in every week via the VC4Africa website. On a regular basis the VC4Africa team places a new venture in