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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 We have had a great experience,” Awin said. We’ve gone from one apartment to another trying to understand the culture here.”

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus. But in countries like South Africa and Ghana entrepreneurial failure is seen by many as shameful. The agriculture technology sector, or agtech, in Africa is booming and its entrepreneurs think very long term and very big. He grew up on his parents’ smallholding farm in rural Nigeria.

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

Divine’s chocolate is farmed by the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. The 85,000 farmers in the cooperative are co-owners in the company. The Stanley brothers – founders of Charlotte’s Web – know this well. .” How do they do this? By putting their money and their business where their mouth is.

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

Divine’s chocolate is farmed by the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. The 85,000 farmers in the cooperative are co-owners in the company. The Stanley brothers – founders of Charlotte’s Web – know this well. .” How do they do this? By putting their money and their business where their mouth is.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

For example, Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup. Referrals – Ask anyone you know who may have useful points of contact for you – your co-workers, friendly customers, your social media network – they may be able to connect you with perfect interview candidates.

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Disrupting VC

thebarefootvc

Traditional pattern recognition (Stanford/MIT founder, white young male) will not work as some of the most impressive innovation is happening by people outside of this description. With RTP, I plan to help portfolio companies across the US access the fast growing emerging markets. The best is yet to come….

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

To me personally, being the founder of an online business, distribution will never be a problem. As the co-founder of the Virtual Global Consultant (VGC) Group, I love the fact that we have created employment in underserved communities globally. Thanks to Brock Blake, Lendio ! #15- 15- Creating opportunities. 16-EVERYTHING!