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[Interview] Christopher Kape, Vancouver Executive, President of JAMCO Capital Partners

YoungUpstarts

He has gone on several service trips with his children, including a trip to rural Uganda with The Walking School Bus, and one to rural India with ME to WE. Anyone involved in Internet related high-tech businesses at the time learned much from the loss of easy to raise capital with high valuations and quick IPO/RTO exits.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

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

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Marketing the Viral Effect and Not-for-Profit Gold

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The point is that I usually have a pretty good feel when a topic is trending or a movement is growing on the Internet. Some questioned whether the effort was over-simplifying the situation and others pointed out that Kony was no longer in Uganda. The effort, however, has not been without some controversy and social media pushback.

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