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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus. In Uganda and Zambia it’s as low as 15% saying it would stop them starting a business , whereas in the US this figure stands at 34%. In Africa if you take a risk and it goes wrong it can have a far greater impact on you, your employees and community. But why is this?

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

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I sat down with David Spandorfer , co-founder of Janji , a running apparel company, to talk about the intersection of an everyday need, water, and an act of physical activity that almost everyone can do, running. This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019.

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