Category: Engineering & Scaling
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What It’s Really Like to Be Young, Black, and an African Tech Startup Entrepreneur (in Africa)
Cross-posted from Wiza’s blog on Medium. This post is going to read like a vaguely-connected set of thoughts and ideas.…
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Stripe Atlas in Africa – Building a Global Business from Africa
Last month, Stripe announced Atlas, a product designed to give entrepreneurs everywhere access to the basic building blocks for starting…
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The Accelerator is a Real-Life Version of University
My name is Prince, and I’m the founder of BiGxGh.com, a startup currently going through Savannah Fund’s accelerator. It’s only…
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UniSmart: Thoughts on the Accelerator
To be totally honest, I never planned on or even wanted to be part of an accelerator when I started UniSmart.…
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What It Takes to Build a Hit Game: Lessons from Matatu
In June 2011, we submitted Matatu to Google’s subsaharan developer challenge. It was one of two apps my team had…
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E-commerce & Mobile Payments in Africa will not scale without Business Process Integration
E-Commerce (or M-Commerce) and Mobile Payments in Africa gets a lot of attention. I get a number of mobile payments…
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Does the “Copy to/Clone…” Strategy work in Africa?
Every so often I hear venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley ask a recurring question regarding Tech Startups in…