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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
Information Africa: Reducing dependency on foreign ICT consultants in Ghana
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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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
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
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Entrepreneurship
Making SME finance work in Africa
Today was the first day of the Making FInance Work in Africa conference here in Addis Ababa. This was a unique opportunity for the
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Entrepreneurship
Why do African startups fail?
This week’s poll was possibly our most controversial to date. We saw extensive and heated discussions cross the VC4Africa community, Linkedin, T…
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Entrepreneurship
Right management team makes the difference in African business
It is not easy finding good investments and almost every team, idea or business has a number of weaknesses that need to be carefully