African Entrepreneurs

Here’s Chude Jideonwo Much Sought After Women Of West Africa Entrepreneurship Festival Keynote Speech 0
- Entrepreneurs
- June 29, 2015
Zero to Hero: the Extraordinary Factors that make the impossible possible & Key characteristics of those that achieve significant breakthroughs Text of Keynote Address given by Chude Jideonwo, Managing Partner of Red Media Africa (RED) and Founding Executive Director of The Future Project Africa, at the Women of West Africa Entrepreneurship Festival on 25 June,
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7 Important Lessons My Multimillionaire Mentor Taught Me In Four Months 0
- Entrepreneurs
- June 2, 2015
I recently agreed to take up a consulting job for an upcoming conference center. One of the main reasons why I decided to do so; is that there is a business lady I wanted to work with. She is a business woman based in Nyeri; however she does business all over Kenya – her name
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Nigeria’s Hotels.ng Raises $1.2m From Echo VC, Omidyar Network 0
- Companies
- May 26, 2015
Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s largest hotel booking website, has secured an investment of $1.2 million from international investors EchoVC Pan-Africa Fund, a seed-stage technology fund, and Omidyar Network, the investment vehicle of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. The funding round follows on from the company’s 2013 seed investment of $225,000 from Lagos-based Spark.ng. Hotels.ng has built its hotel
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“Entrepreneur-Led Development: A New Model For Africa” – Text Of Speech By Tony O. Elumelu At Georgetown University 0
- Development
- May 15, 2015
Thank you all for being here today, the second of my two days in Washington highlighting the importance of global entrepreneurship as a development model. Just yesterday I was honoured to participate as the only non-American speaker at a White House event on global entrepreneurship hosted by President Obama, who is speaking on your campus
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7 Laws Of Ideas – Leke Alder 0
- Entrepreneurs
- May 2, 2015
As far as Nigeria is concerned, no one knows the subject of branding as much as Leke Alder. The charismatic branding maestro is the founder of Alder Consulting which has offices in Lagos and London, and has consulted at the highest levels locally and abroad. He was at Covenant Cristian Centre’s intellectual fair The Platform
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How Entrepreneurs Can Overcome Startup Challenges In Africa – Marek Zmyslowski 0
- Entrepreneurs
- April 28, 2015
Starting a business could be an uphill task especially in a hostile business terrain like Africa where there are handful of challenges to overcome. On this premise, young and aspiring entrepreneurs recently gathered at Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) Yaba to discuss how they can overcome the challenges unique to African entrepreneurs with Marek Zmyslowski, the Managing
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