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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. A frugal tap in Ghana. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development. One of them is called frugal innovation.

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

Transformify

Those countries relying on agriculture or oil production tend to have high unemployment rates and wide skills gaps. The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. Project/ Product Management.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Zenvus aims to eliminate extreme poverty in the developing world by improving crop yield and overall farming productivity using electronics and analytics to empower farmers. But in countries like South Africa and Ghana entrepreneurial failure is seen by many as shameful. This is long-term planning in action. Believe in yourself.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

SXSW brings a huge chunk of the music and tech world together in one city every year in March, and most startups launch their products there every year. The startup was launching its product there, and as part of the promotion plan, we were to go into bars in the evenings and sign people up to use their service. How did I get the gig?

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

Hearpreneur

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. 10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana. Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their daily, weekly, quarterly or yearly goals around their business.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

And instead of buying the bottles we needed (with the no money we had), we’d reuse used plastic soda bottles to serve as the product’s packaging: a profitable product made entirely out of garbage. But then, I found myself wondering: What if we tried to eliminate the idea of waste? So, that’s it!

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Lean Startup Beyond the Tech Sector

Startup Lessons Learned

They demonstrated the ways that testing and measuring could help many industries build truly useful, successful products and services. Companies that create devices can see these rapidly pressure-tested, cutting the length of clinical trials and shortening products'' time to market (as well as cutting failing ideas faster).

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