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Join the VC4Africa meetup tomorrow in Paris! – May 26th
Second to networking online, VC4Africa makes use of the Barcamp model for organizing our very own VC4Africa Meetups. These are informal networking events initiated by any member in the network...
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Innovation spreads like wildfire in Africa
Nairobi has really worked to claim its position as an innovation hotspot. See for example the plans for the $7b Konza Technology City. The activity there is remarkable and the progress is really a...
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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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Investment guide for Angels
How to be an angel investor View another webinar from Venture Hacks Looking to invest in starting companies? Thought this was an interesting presentation that outlines some pretty straight forward...
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VC4Africa launches a crowdsourced knowledge base for doing business in Africa
About VC4A Questions: VC4Africa seeks to connect entrepreneurs with the network, capital and knowledge they need to build promising businesses on the continent. We have members from 156 countries that...
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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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VC4Africa Infographic, 2012 the year of Entrepreneurship in Africa
We have been wanting to produce some visuals for some time now and it was fun to see this project come together for the start of the new year. Instead of some card with a bunch of happy faces we...
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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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A startup challenge that celebrates Cameroon’s top innovators
When Bill Zimmerman (my co-founder at VC4Africa) approached me with the idea for the Cameroon Startup Challenge, it took me about 3 second to make my decision….this is just something we just have to...
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Launch Angel Investor network in Lagos, Nigeria
The Lagos Innovation Hotspots is an initiative of the Co-creation Hub aimed at mapping hotspots representing clusters of emerging high growth and competitive businesses across Lagos. The current map,...
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