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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

A frugal tap in Ghana. We’ll also look at some examples of startups that have used this approach to significant effect. Look for new ways to drive growth for your startup. History of frugal innovation. Image Credit: Amuzujoe.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Just like its neighbours, Ghana is a predominantly agricultural country dependant on the cocoa production. Rwanda is an agricultural country and a lot more is to be done to develop the skills needed to diversify the economy. It is remarkable that the inclusion of women is high and more women are employed than men.

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Ten Startups Pitch at Techstars Impact Demo Day in Austin

SiliconHills

For the past three months, Cowtribe Cofounders Peter Awin and Alima Bawah, have rented apartments throughout Austin after moving more than 6,000 miles from Ghana to participate in the Techstars Impact program. “We We have had a great experience,” Awin said. We’ve gone from one apartment to another trying to understand the culture here.”

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Startup founders in Southeast Asia, it’s time to step up

The Next Web

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. Less than two years later, it became the first startup from Africa to receive funding from 500 Startups. As of 2013, Dropifi had over 6,000 paying customers in 30 countries worldwide.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

But in countries like South Africa and Ghana entrepreneurial failure is seen by many as shameful. Society does not accept or embrace failure in the same way; as William Senyo, co-founder and CEO of the Impact Hub in Accra, Ghana says : “Your parents tell you, ‘Be a doctor; everything else is a gamble.’”.

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11 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana. I believe MyCorporation is on the right track for this growth and I’m excited to keep hiring new talent to come join our incredible team! Thanks to Deborah Sweeney, MyCorporation ! #10- Photo credit: Chisa Pennix-Brown.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

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. I remember enjoying reading his book “ Delivering Happiness ,” the story behind how he led Zappos and drove it to a billion dollars in revenue before Amazon bought it. I didn’t feel like it?—?getting