Moving From Financial Access To Health
Over the past decade, the push for financial inclusion has united governments, companies, technology entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations in dozens of countries on every…
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Babies Teach You The Perfect Attitude To Failure
The treatment of founders in SV sounds like the relationship between a mother and a child – actually, a lot of the relationships between investors and entrepreneurs in SV can be described using strong family analogies.
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Bitkoin Africa Has Secured An Undisclosed Amount Of Funding From Microtraction
Less than 1% of Africans own cryptoassets today and we believe there’s is a significant opportunity to grow the number of African who will own this asset class as it develops over time.
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The Need For Focused Service Providers To Support The Developing Startup Ecosystem
With the rise of startups in newly formed ecosystems around Africa, there is a need for focused specialized support, to reduce the cost of running the business, and free the entrepreneur to focus on their core business.
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Women in STEM: Time to recalculate our approach?
It remains vital to encourage people to take up maths and science based subjects at a young age, particularly young women, who have traditionally found themselves less likely to take up the offer of a STEM education than their male counterparts.
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MTN Ghana’s Self Service Kiosk: What does this mean for Mobile Money Agents?
As at December 2017, MTN had an agent base of 85, 000. I do not think MTN will want to replace their agents with these machines.
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The Death of Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion in Uganda
The death of Mobile Money in Uganda is imminent if the government’s proposal to tax transactions is approved in the 2018/19 budget.
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Bunmi Otegbade: Build the Future.
A year ago today, I handed a microphone over to Mark Zuckerberg for the first time in my life. I joined little known Facebook in 2004…
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Op-Ed: SWOT analysis of the Nigerian e-commerce sector
Analysis of the strength, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats prevalent in the Nigerian e-commerce sector
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Op-Ed: Regulating Net Neutrality: Policy Recommendations for Promoting and Safeguarding an Open Internet in Nigeria
The Nigerian Communications Commission must strive to balance competing interests in its efforts to establish an Internet Industry Code of Practice
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Why I launched the West Africa Mobile Awards (WAMAS), and why you should enter them
WAMAS are a true reflection of hard work, efforts and innovation.
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African Tech Roundup: Business angels, Blackberry and tech bubbles
Technology, digital and innovation highlights from across Africa and beyond
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ProTeach: Our 95% Customer Retention Rate Story
Customers are your biggest investors and opening a constant line of communication with them is what will make your business scale to higher proportions
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African Tech Roundup: The South African Reserve Bank is warming up to blockchain technology
Technology, digital and innovation highlights from across Africa and beyond
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Op-Ed: The African business angel – An early stage investment opportunity
Angel investors in Africa need relatively little capital to become notable players in the early stage investment market.
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Op-Ed: Why Nigeria’s e-commerce industry continues to attract investment
With 38% of Nigerians now connected to the internet, the e-commerce industry clearly has potential.
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African Tech Round-up: Kwesé TV poised to give DStv a haircut
Technology, digital and innovation highlights from across Africa and beyond
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African tech roundup: Fintech News Dominates Holiday Headlines + Insights From CES 2017
Technology, digital and innovation highlights from across Africa and beyond
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ABAN 2016 review: A continent of Angel investors
Lay of the land from the African Business Angel Network (ABAN) team as 2017 kicks off
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3 things we heard at the 2016 African Technology Summit
“The best kind of money you can raise is from your customers.”
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Nigeria’s startup ecosystem: Too many wise men, not enough fools
We can all be that evangelist who’s foolish enough to advertise great products without asking for something in return.
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9 quick tips to boost your email marketing results
How to improve your email marketing strategy without spending anything
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Big Data is Big Money: Welcome to the Era of the African Digital Native
Harnessing and analysing data to discern patterns and make better decisions remain unexplored angles
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Co-working spaces are the keystone of the entrepreneurship ecosystem
They have the power to connect the dots to unlock maximum value for all
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Three takeaways from the Africa Business Angel Forum
On 9 and 14 September, the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator team took part in two events hosted by NewGenAngels, a UK-based members-only investment club for…
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Financial Technologies in Africa: Driving Much More Than Financial Inclusion
An infographic about Fintech in Africa.
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Aso Villa Demo Day: The untold story
As told by Ifedayo Oladapo, founder of GRIT Systems
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Fintech Is The New E-commerce
What is the addressable market for a technology startup operating in Nigeria?
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Is the South African Business Angel Network going to fill a key gap?
We’ll just have to wait and see
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Three steps to reduce the cost of remittances to Africa
IMTOs need to work together to make the industry better for the African diaspora and their loved ones.
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The Digital Rights and Freedom Bill: Laying the Foundation for Nigeria’s Digital Future
By Honorable Chukwuemeka Ujam, Titi Akinsanmi, and ‘Gbenga Sesan.
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An unconventional guide to building your Nigerian startup
Hint: we need time for our startups to thrive
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Why I won’t be leaving Snapchat for Instagram Stories. Or will I?
“Snapchat will have to reinvent itself or die a fast, painful death.”
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On creative destruction and building tech products for Nigeria: the Vconnect evolution story
Hint – continuous testing is very important
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This is how we will bring “Esusu” informal loan groups to the 21st century
Esusu deserves better: time for a radical change
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How Fintech can power small business in Nigeria
I’ll be the first to admit that there’s been lots of good vibes in Nigeria’s Fintech space lately. Take payments for example – it’s…
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Dear Nigerian founder, crushing marketing is way more important than product development
That is, as long as you find the right marketing channels for your business.
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Nigeria and Digital Rights: Important Decisions Ahead
Learning from good examples and past mistakes
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PrepClass: The journey so far
From Battlefield until now
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Proudly Nigerian
Yesterday, Supermart.ng officially launched their “Proudly Nigerian” drive, with the goal of encouraging the purchase of local products by enabling customers to more easily identify local versus imported products.
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