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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

It is true that founding a startup in times of crisis may look more challenging. 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. It can help startups stretch their resources further and achieve a more significant impact.

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

Transformify

What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Lagos, a Nigerian port city, is the home of more than 60 startups focused on solving social problems. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Just like its neighbours, Ghana is a predominantly agricultural country dependant on the cocoa production.

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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 The post Ten Startups Pitch at Techstars Impact Demo Day in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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

The Next Web

The Ghanian startup built a widget to replace contact forms and provide businesses with the kind of customer insights most consumers fail to fill out on websites. Less than two years later, it became the first startup from Africa to receive funding from 500 Startups. Dropifi is looking to streamline customer feedback.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Africa is a huge and diverse continent, and over the last few years, it has emerged as one of the world’s hotspots for startups. In fact, African startups secured almost a $1bn in investment funding in 2018. Why has attention turned so quickly to African startups, and what can we learn from the continents’ successful entrepreneurs?

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Lean Startup Beyond the Tech Sector

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup methodology has its roots in the tech sector, where companies need to iterate quickly in order to survive. In fact, at last year’s Lean Startup conference we had speakers from a number other sectors, including government, transportation, education and public health. Here''s just one example.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

Austin, TX Fast forward 4 years later, here I am working for a startup at the South By South West Tech & Music festival in Austin, TX. 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. How did I get the gig? getting up and going.