Category: Business

• Free Book! 7 Action Steps for Powerful People 2 People Engagement

  This tool was developed from conversations with professionals across the world. In a few actions to what you are currently doing, you will be able to: Prepare for Holiday Parties Connect with more people than ever before Move to the top of recruiting lists Declare 2019 your most successful year yet! Rahshib A. Thomas, PHR…

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  October 8, 2018

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  Africa, African stories, African youths, awards, AWP Network, Bike Race of Ninja Temple, Black entrepreneurs, business, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Creativity, Daily Spark, Daily Spark Entrepreneur Community, development, education, Enterprise, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, gaming, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mega Rock, mobile apps, mobile games, mobile technology, Muoyo Okome, my voice matters, Nigeria, Princeton University, program, progress, Rahshib A. Thomas, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, UPenn, Wharton, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Meet the portfolio for 2018 VC4A Venture Showcase – Series A

  

  VC4A is proud to announce the 8 ventures selected for the 2018 VC4A Venture Showcase – Series A.  These companies represent a new class of investment opportunity coming up across the African continent. The selected ventures have strong revenues, are well positioned for regional and international expansion, and demonstrate important innovations that are disrupting industries like…

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  October 8, 2018

  Business

  access, Aerobotics, Africa, African Angel Investor Summit, AgroCenta, Asoko Insight, business acceleration, business accelerator, business opportunity, Cape Town, Coin Afrique, digital, Edgepoint Digital, Electronic Settlement Limited, Entrepreneurs, Fibre Lifestlye, Finland, Gebeya, GoMetro, investments, Investors, Invoiceworx, Lynk Jobs Ltd., MAX, Norway, ogaVenue, Ongair, Opportunity, Pesabazaar.com, Piggybank, Prepclass, Printivo, Rasello Company, Rensource, Sendy Ltd., Snapplify, Sokowatch, startups, Sweden, TalentBase, Timbuktu, Tizeti Network Ltd., XL Africa, XL Africa Venture Showcase

• Meet the Young Entrepreneurs Up for the $100,000 Anzisha Prize

  

  Entrepreneurship is central to Africa’s economic growth and is one of the keys to unlocking job opportunities for young people across the continent. Today, Mastercard Foundation in partnership with the African Leadership Academy (ALA) is pleased to announce that 20 of Africa’s youngest and brightest entrepreneurs will join the Anzisha Fellowship–a lifelong affiliation that will help…

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  October 3, 2018

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  Africa, African youths, Ajiroghene Omanudhowo, Aly Abd ElAzem, Andrew Ddembe, anzisha prize, Asha Abbas, AWP Network, Benedict Kusi Ampofo, business, business support, Côte d’Ivoire, challenge, change, collaboration, development, Dina Mohamed Ibrahim, Edgar Edmund, Egypt, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Fadwa Moussaif, Faustino Quissico, Geoffrey Mulei, Gerald Matolo, Ghana, growth, Heritiana Fabien Randriamananatahina, Ibrahima Ben Aziz Konate, Ifrah Mohamed, Ignatius Ahumuza, Innovation, Issam Darui, Jessan Kumar Persand, Kenya, Lamine Chamsiya, Madagascar, Maemu Lambani, Mary Olushoga, Mary Olusoga, mentorship, Moonga Chowa, Morocco, Mozambique, N’guessan Koffi Jacques Olivier, Niger, Nigeria, Opportunity, progress, Rebecca Andrianarisandy, Satta Wahab, Senegal, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, Thowiba Alhaj, Uganda, Vicente Zau, Victoria Olimatunde, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Yaye Souadou Fall, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Want to Build an App Business? Learn the 7 Steps to App Success

  

  It is a common misconception that you need to be able to code and/or need funding to become a successful app entrepreneur. In fact, you probably know at least one person who is holding themselves back from their dream of building an app business because they do not know how. Mobile game developer and techpreneur,…

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  October 2, 2018

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  Africa, African stories, African youths, awards, AWP Network, Bike Race of Ninja Temple, Black entrepreneurs, business, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Creativity, Daily Spark, Daily Spark Entrepreneur Community, development, education, Enterprise, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, gaming, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mega Rock, mobile apps, mobile games, mobile technology, Muoyo Okome, my voice matters, Nigeria, Princeton University, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, UPenn, Wharton, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Mary Olushoga, Founder of AWP Network to Speak about African Women Entrepreneurs During UN General Assembly Week

  

  Mary Olushoga, Founder of AWP Network is set to speak about African Women Entrepreneurs during UN General Assembly Week. She will join the discussion on the challenges and successes facing African women entrepreneurs. You may register for the event here: UN Africa

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  September 26, 2018

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  Africa, Africa Data Challenge, African innovators, African youths, apps, awards, AWP Network, big data, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, collaborators, competition, Data, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Farmers, Fashion, Femi Agbayewa, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, journey, journeys, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, On The Rise Africa, Planet Earth Institute, program, progress, ScienceAfrica, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, thinking big, unemployed youths, Vision, visions, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• 11 Africans Selected for the Facebook Community Leadership Program

  Facebook has announced the names of 116 people worldwide who have been selected to join the Facebook Community Leadership Program. Around a dozen African community leaders have been selected to become program residents and fellows.  The five (5) participants selected  as community leaders in residence, each will be awarded up to $1,000,000 to fund their community…

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  September 25, 2018

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  Africa, Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, African Engineers, African Innovation, African Innovation Foundation, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, African Women Power Network, African youths, AI Commons, AIMS, apps, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, Chiniki Guard, civil and computing to biomedical, collaboration, competition, Cycles, development, economic empowerment, education, electronic engineering., Engineering, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, girls, Google, governance, Gricd Agroservices, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovation Prize for Africa, Innovators, Inspiration, Insyt, Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa, Kigali, Lagos, leadership, Machine Intelligence, machinery, making a difference, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mechanical, Mining, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, oil and gas, online services, pan-African network, Plant Doctor, Prize, program, progress, Project Move, Quadron Studios, research, RoadPreppers, Rwanda, SayPeace, scientists, small business, Smart Electricity, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Team Kanji, technology, The AWP Network, Treplabs, unemployed youths, Up NEPA;, Vetsark, website, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Government of Japan and the Austrian Government to Fund Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab (eLab) Programs

  

  FAPA, of which the Government of Japan is a major donor, along with the Austrian Government and the African Development Bank, will contribute $923,570 and $988,202 to finance the Bank’s Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab (eLab) programs, respectively. Both programs form key components of the Bank’s Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy, which invests in high-growth sectors…

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  September 25, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, agribusiness, Agribusiness partnership, agriculture, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Côte d’Ivoire, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FAPA, Farmers, fertilizer, Fund for African Private Sector Assistance, Ghana, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investments, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Mozambique, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Sustainable agriculture, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, unemployed youths, value chains, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young farmers, young voices, youth, Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition, Youths

• Research Project at Stanford Becomes Thriving Startup – Adia Sowho, Managing Director of Mines Nigeria Speaks to The AWP Network

  

  Ekechi Nwokah and Kunle Olukotun founded Mines in 2014. At the time, they were living in Palo Alto where they met for the first time at a mutual friend’s house. Nwokah and Olukotun share similar backgrounds. They grew up in Nigeria and studied computer science while at university. Naturally they clicked and began to discuss…

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  September 17, 2018

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  access, Adia Sowho, Afghanistan, Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, artificial intelligence, awards, AWP Network, Bank of Industry, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, computer science, credit, credit risk, culture, customers, Data, datasets, development, education, Ekechi Nwokah, Emerging Markets, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, financial access, financials, fintech startup, First Ally Capital, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kunle Olukotun, Lagos, leadership, Machine Learning, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mines, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, NYCA partners, Persistent Capital, program, progress, research project, Sahara Investments, Singularity Investments, small business, solutions, South Africa, South America, SouthEast Asia, Stanford, strategy, support, sustainability, talent acquisition, technology, technology leadership, The AWP Network, The Rise Fund, TPG Growth, United States, Velocity Capital, Western technology Investments, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, women executives, X/Seed Capital, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Attend: Africa Fintech Summit

  

  The Africa Fintech Summit gathers innovators, investors, policy makers and other key stakeholders in the Fintech sector to discuss technologies transforming finance on the continent, debate regulatory policies, compare best practices, and forge new ventures. The two-day event will feature investor missions from the US, UK, and UAE, an Alpha Expo featuring the most exciting startups…

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  September 17, 2018

  Business

  Africa, Africa Fintech, African fintech entrepreneurs, African startup, African startup ecosystem, African youths, Awamo, awards, AWP Network, Benin, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, conference, Developers, development, EcoBank, Ecobank Africa Fintech Prize, Ecobank fintech challenge, Ecobank Fintech Fellow, Ecobank Fintech Fellowship, Ecobank Group, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Eversend, FinTech, fintech solutions, France, Germany, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovators, Inspiration, InvestED, Investors, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, Litee, Lome, Lypa, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, MojiPay, my voice matters, Nala, Nigeria, pan-African, policymakers, prizes, program, progress, Secapay, SESO Global, Sierra Leone, small business, software developers, solutions, South Africa, startups, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, Togo, ventures, Virtual Identity, Wallet.ng, women, women and girls, women developers, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Introducing the 15 Companies Accepted into Facebook’s Accelerator Program in Lagos

  The teams went through an intensive 1-week bootcamp between the 27th and 31st of August 2018 and have now kicked off their six-month journey to build, modify and optimize their value-driven products. The selected teams will receive up to $20K in equity free-funding, partner credits, mentorship, technical and business support from Facebook and CcHUB.  RoadPreppers: Lara.ng is a…

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  September 16, 2018

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  Africa, Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, African Engineers, African Innovation, African Innovation Foundation, African youths, AI Commons, apps, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, Chiniki Guard, civil and computing to biomedical, collaboration, competition, Cycles, development, economic empowerment, education, electronic engineering., Engineering, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Gricd Agroservices, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovation Prize for Africa, Innovators, Inspiration, Insyt, Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa, Lagos, leadership, making a difference, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mechanical, Mining, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, oil and gas, online services, Plant Doctor, Prize, program, progress, Project Move, Quadron Studios, RoadPreppers, SayPeace, small business, Smart Electricity, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Team Kanji, technology, The AWP Network, Treplabs, Up NEPA;, Vetsark, website, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth