Venture capitalists (VC) make funding decisions based on the people in a startup, not based on the idea, according to…
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Investors must learn to focus on saying a quick “no” to startups looking for funding when they are not interested,…
Pule Taukobong, founder of the Africa Angels Network (AAN), looks at the startup funding landscape in Africa and the challenging…
The traditional accelerator model as known in the United States (US) and Europe has not worked in South Africa due…
Ghana’s mPedigree, the company behind a pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting solution, has expanded to Nigeria and Kenya since its 2007 launch, and…
Western Cape startup and investor community the Silicon Cape Initiative is not trying to be the “Silicon Valley” of Africa…
Cape Town video startup Blink Tower is now a self-sufficient entity, dealing with high profile clients both in South Africa…
Sub-Saharan Africa performs worst globally in terms of the level of difficulty in launching a startup, according to a study…
In an exclusive guest post for Disrupt Africa, Alan Knott Craig tells the real story of why he left iBurst…
Having grown up and gone to school in Ethiopia, when entrepreneur Eskinder Mamo and computer engineer Amanuel Abrha met while…