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SME Heroes: Growing a Contemporary Footwear Brand In Africa
VENTURES AFRICA – Africa’s SME space is rapidly expanding, with over 50 million Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) contributing 58 percent of employment and 33 percent of GDP, according to...
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VENTURES AFRICA – Understanding the customer decision making process is essential for brand success in Africa today. Today’s world is Omni-channel, and Africa is not left out. People now make decisions...
View ArticleSME Heroes: Building A $10m Webhosting Company In Nigeria
VENTURES AFRICA – A vast array of entrepreneurial opportunities are rapidly surfacing across the African business landscape, owing to the aggressive growth witnessed in the IT sector. From mobile...
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SME Heroes: The Kenyan Brand Empowering Local Artisans
VENTURES AFRICA – Africa is the economic landscape of the future and the world has taken notice of the continent’s potentials. With belief in the prospects of the region turning it to a major hub for...
View ArticleSME Heroes: Building Africa’s Online Business Group
VENTURES AFRICA – 27 years old Nigerian serial entrepreneur, Adekunle Jinadu Kunle runs a number of businesses including Jaramall.com (an online grocery store), Ashoebi.com (an online store where...
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VENTURES AFRICA – Small- to medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs, are invaluable to any economy. They can help catalyse job creation, reduce poverty, provide basic goods and services, and generate the...
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SME Heroes: Kenya’s Biggest Online Clothing Store Driven By Social Media
VENTURES AFRICA – Online retailing is rapidly taking preeminence over traditional marketplaces owing largely to a fledging ICT space an explosive adoption rate of Smartphones in Africa. One of such is...
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Female Entrepreneur Determined To Revolutionize Tourism In Africa Receives...
VENTURES AFRICA – An emerging female entrepreneur set to revolutionize tourism in Africa will get her vision supported by a whooping $10,000 grant from She Leads Africa. Cherae Robinson, Founder and...
View Article300 African SMEs To Meet Prospective Financiers In Senegal
VENTURES AFRICA – Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are crucial to Africa’s economic progress, representing 90 percent of privately-owned indigenous business entities, 33 percent of the continent’s...
View ArticleDeciding Where to Float Your Next African StartUp
VENTURES AFRICA – With great propulsion, the startup scene in Africa has taken off showcasing deeply creative ideas, solutions, and business models; this is a trend that is likely to continue because...
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Nigerian Startup Going Up Against Paypal Is About To Raise Almost $10m
VENTURES AFRICA – Ever since SimplePay pitched on stage in Geneva at the $500,000 SeedStars World startup competition in February, the Nigerian internet payment startup has witnessed a rain of...
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SME Heroes: Utilizing Technology To Preserve African Folktales
VENTURES AFRICA – Aside developing software for electronics and making life easier, technology has been used to preserve and promote culture as well as other ancient inheritances. This can be seen in...
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SME Heroes: Kampke.com Plans To Challenge Africa’s Ecommerce Status Quo
VENTURES AFRICA – Since the mobile boom, and the subsequent smartphone and broadband penetration began in Africa just over a decade ago, a new wave of businesses have surfaced on the continent. From...
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“If you want to go fast, go alone; If you want to go far, go together” – African Proverb VENTURES AFRICA – Africa is at a precipice when it comes to sustaining economic growth in the SME sector,...
View ArticleUgandan SMEs Generate $4.6m In Eight Months
VENTURES AFRICA – Since 2009, the Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB) has been resolute in trying to build the competitiveness of 82 small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). This has been done...
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VENTURES AFRICA – Small- to medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs, are invaluable to any economy. They can help catalyse job creation, reduce poverty, provide basic goods and services, and generate the...
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SME Heroes: Kenya’s Biggest Online Clothing Store Driven By Social Media
VENTURES AFRICA – Online retailing is rapidly taking preeminence over traditional marketplaces owing largely to a fledging ICT space an explosive adoption rate of Smartphones in Africa. One of such is...
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Female Entrepreneur Determined To Revolutionize Tourism In Africa Receives...
VENTURES AFRICA – An emerging female entrepreneur set to revolutionize tourism in Africa will get her vision supported by a whooping $10,000 grant from She Leads Africa. Cherae Robinson, Founder and...
View Article300 African SMEs To Meet Prospective Financiers In Senegal
VENTURES AFRICA – Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are crucial to Africa’s economic progress, representing 90 percent of privately-owned indigenous business entities, 33 percent of the continent’s...
View ArticleDeciding Where to Float Your Next African StartUp
VENTURES AFRICA – With great propulsion, the startup scene in Africa has taken off showcasing deeply creative ideas, solutions, and business models; this is a trend that is likely to continue because...
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