The Next Web

AUGUST 23, 2014

The service solves a universal problem for companies but it happens that it was built in Ghana, where the internet penetration rate is just 40 percent. The post Startup founders in Southeast Asia, it’s time to step up appeared first on The Next Web. As of 2013, Dropifi had over 6,000 paying customers in 30 countries worldwide.

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Asia Ghana Founder Africa 165

YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus. But in countries like South Africa and Ghana entrepreneurial failure is seen by many as shameful. The agriculture technology sector, or agtech, in Africa is booming and its entrepreneurs think very long term and very big. He grew up on his parents’ smallholding farm in rural Nigeria.

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South Africa Africa Ghana Entrepreneur 113

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

I wanted a Ghanaian delicacy that I had grown up on ( I was born in Ghana), and that meant getting up and going to the only African shop in the city. Other founders say having a baby beats it, but we’ll have to wait and see about that. Those could help out a lot of founders. I didn’t feel like it?—?getting getting up and going.

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Delaware SEC New York City New York 62

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As a father and founder, I’m motivated to end our kid’s dependence on sugar and start a conversation about its dangers. 10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana. This will allow me to start using the advertising markets that I’ve always dreamed about using. Thanks to James Magee. #2- Photo credit: Darren Litt.

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Ghana Entrepreneur Green Curation 142

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

Divine’s chocolate is farmed by the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. The Stanley brothers – founders of Charlotte’s Web – know this well. But the Stanley brothers, founders of Charlotte’s Web, have worked hard to ensure that their product is “The World’s Most Trusted Hemp Extract.”

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Charlotte Design Ghana Web 61

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

Divine’s chocolate is farmed by the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. The Stanley brothers – founders of Charlotte’s Web – know this well. But the Stanley brothers, founders of Charlotte’s Web, have worked hard to ensure that their product is “The World’s Most Trusted Hemp Extract.”

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Charlotte Design Ghana Web 48

thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

Traditional pattern recognition (Stanford/MIT founder, white young male) will not work as some of the most impressive innovation is happening by people outside of this description. With RTP, I plan to help portfolio companies across the US access the fast growing emerging markets.

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Silicon Valley Ghana Venture Capital India 69