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Time to celebrate African success stories!
What better way to support SME development in the African space than by celebrating the entrepreneurs who have already achieved remarkable success. This is exactly what the Africa Awards program is...
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Access to finance is the biggest challenge to entrepreneurs in Africa
This past week I conducted a poll with members on VC4Africa. Specifically, I wanted to know what the community feels prevents (more) entrepreneurship on the continent. Is it the entrepreneurs, tough...
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Join the 2nd VC4Africa Meetup Kampala
The first VC4Africa meetup was organized in Kampala, Uganda @ Katch the Sun. This was already in June of 2008 and it’s exciting to see similar meetups have already been organized in 26 cities around...
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Pitfalls for the African startup, why do they fail?
Building a successful business is one of the hardest things to do. For many entrepreneurs building companies in different parts of Africa assumes extra challenges. But from all of the different...
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The Rise of a Startup Culture in Africa [Video Presentation]
Technology + Entrepreneurs + A vision = Startups in Africa in need of Venture Capital. This is a one line summary of the presentation I recently gave at the 1% Event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In...
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Fast Moving Targets: Africa as promising investment frontier
Here is an interview I did last week with Fast Moving Targets, a new series dedicated to showcasing innovation in media, technology and communications. They are very much tapping into Amsterdam as a...
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VC4Africa and the emergence of an African startup culture
Want to know more about VC4Africa and our work to support starting entrepreneurs? Here is a presentation we recently recorded. I outline some of the recent trends and developments we are witnessing in...
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Venture Capitalist take a look at the challenges investing in African tech
VC4Africa was pleased to host the panel, ‘Strengthening the VC pipeline’ at the 9th Annual Conference for the African Venture Capital Association meeting hosted in Accra. I was joined by Yemi Lalude,...
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AfriLabs welcomes 9 new members and seeks a director of programs
Today we are pleased to welcome 9 new members to the AfriLabs network and announce that we are hiring a director. These are the next steps in our effort to build a strong association and to support...
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Celebrating a growing technology community in Cameroon
So exciting to see Djoss.tv win the Cameroon Startup Challenge 2012. It was an electric evening with so much positive energy. My first trip to Cameroon was in the spring of 2011. Amazing to see what...
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