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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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Time to look beyond ICT4D: New media research in Uganda offers a different...
Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda is a collection of ethnographic reports from diverse perspectives of those living at the other end of the African ICT pyramid. Crucially, these texts refocus...
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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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Africa’s revolution coming to you on twitter
If you haven’t seen this yet, here is a great insight into the development of Twitter in Africa. The recent events in Egypt, and across the N.African region, have shown us what coming levels of...
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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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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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Ugandan techies grab the spotlight at the PivotEast competition
At the recent Pivot East competition, an event in which developers pitch their mobile apps to possible investors, Uganda was represented by 4 startups. The contestants included Easy Order, Story...
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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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