Technology

Apply to African Entrepreneurship Award 2016 and win $1 million; business ideas also welcome 0
- Entrepreneurs, Event, Technology
- February 20, 2016
Do you have a business idea that will create jobs and improve lives in your region? Well, the 2016 edition of the African Entrepreneurship Award is open for applications. This means you stand to benefit from personalized, online mentoring over the next few months by people in your region, across Africa and around the globe
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The 2016 MEST Entrepreneur-in-Training Program is now open to Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana 0
- Entrepreneurs, Event, Technology
- February 20, 2016
Do you want to upgrade your entrepreneurial skills and get a jumpstart in your journey as an entrepreneur? Applications are open for the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) Entrepreneur-in-Training Program. The MEST Entrepreneur-in-Training program offers a twelve-month, full-time, fully sponsored training program in which the students – known as Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EITs) – learn about
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Nigerian musicians should learn from this Zimbabwean artist who made over $5,000 through Whatsapp and Mobile Money 0
- Entrepreneurs, Technology
- February 19, 2016
Piracy and poor distribution infrastructure have been the bane of musicians in several African countries. A lot of artistes have returned to hustling even after having mega hits that achieved “national anthem” status. But artistes may have found a saviour in mobile technology. Afterall, what’s technology if not something to help solve problems? TechZim reported
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How this Ghanaian startup got Bukola Saraki, a Nigerian Senator, to endorse their IM app, AfriChat 0
- Entrepreneurs, Technology
- February 17, 2016
WhatsApp hit the 1 billion user milestone on February 1, 2016 joining a very exclusive club of services with a billion users and above. With just a handful of apps serving 1/7th of the global population, you would wonder what chance a local developer has of creating another messaging app that could go global. It
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Startups: Apply to the MTN Enterprise Challenge powered by Jumia and win $25,000 0
- Entrepreneurs, Event, Technology
- February 17, 2016
Applications are now open for the MTN Entrepreneurship Challenge powered by Jumia. The MTN Entrepreneurship Challenge powered by Jumia is a pan-African competition which will bring together over 1000 entrepreneurs, students and investors, to collaborate on ways to amplify and consolidate the continent’s entrepreneurs. The competition will see entries from more than 60 universities in
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Three ways you may be burying your small business and not even know 0
- Entrepreneurs, Technology
- February 15, 2016
If you’re an outsider looking in, it’s easy to think running a startup is a good retirement plan. Pursue your passion, be featured on tech websites and magazines every other month, get millions of dollars in VC money, throw crazy parties, have weird looking offices – the list goes on. But you’d be wrong. As
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