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Beyonic Wins the IBM Global Entrepreneur Pitch Competition

SiliconHills

BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Beyonic, a company whose software connects major global finance sources with payment networks in the developing world to facilitate mobile payments, won the IBM Global Entrepreneur pitch competition Wednesday at the IBM campus on Burnett.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

It’s hardly a surprise then that according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, African entrepreneurs score very highly on the self-confidence scale. 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%.