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Case studies
VC4A Infographic – Let’s make 2012 the year of the Entrepreneur!
At VC4Africa we believe in the potential entrepreneurship has to change the world. At the end of the day, it is the individuals who
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Entrepreneurship
VIDEO – Dambisa Moyo, Africans want to be entrepreneurs
Erin Burnett interviewed Dr. Dambisa Moyo, the author “Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa.”
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Case studies
Smile, nobody said building a business was going to be easy :)
Nobody said it would be easy :) Building a great company is hard to say the least and there are so many obstacles to
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Case studies
What are investors looking for in African start-ups
What are Investors Looking for in African Start-Ups from Jonathan Marks on Vimeo. This is the first in a series of pilot videos made
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Entrepreneurship
Interview with Stephen Dawson, co-Founder of Jacana Ventures
At VC4Africa we are always looking to profile investors in the space. Especially the individuals and organizations that target the SME (small and medi…
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Entrepreneurship
Impact Investing: Passing Buzz or Paradigm Shift?
Photography from Middle Class in Africa By: Bart Meijs – founder and CFO of InReturn Capital and the InReturn East Africa Fund. Bart will
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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
Working towards a Greener Future in Africa – Hivos and VC4Africa join forces
Photo by EDWARD XU At VC4Africa we seek to promote entrepreneurs working to scale green solutions. Large-scale deforestation, water pollution, global …
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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
Female entrepreneurs a driving force in African SMEs
The rate of female entrepreneurship is higher in Africa than in any other region of the world. Nomsa Daniels, the Executive Director of New