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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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Mxit, the 800 pound Gorilla that is Africa’s largest social network
Paul Stemmet of World Of Avatar, an African focused tech investor, gave a presentation at Mobile Web East Africa (Hashtag: #MWEA2012). In addition to his launch of Shinka.sh – a mobile ad network, he...
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Steeds meer Nederlandse ondernemers ontdekken Afrika
Yesterday evening VC4Africa board member Jasper Grosskurth, Director of Research and Strategy at Research Solutions Africa, was featured on Dutch national news channel NOS. The report gives a nice...
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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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Facebook Zero, feature phones and the ‘next billion’ users
Graphic from the BBC and data from SocialBakers On October 4th, 2012, Facebook passed the billion user mark. These users generated some 1.13 trillion ‘likes,’ 219 billion photos and 17 billion location...
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