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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

A frugal tap in Ghana. In addition, mobile banking can lead to more excellent financial stability and empowerment for individuals and communities, helping to reduce inequalities and promote development. We’ll also look at some examples of startups that have used this approach to significant effect. History of frugal innovation.

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

Transformify

Just like its neighbours, Ghana is a predominantly agricultural country dependant on the cocoa production. To address the internal migration trends, in 2013 the government adopted ‘’Marshall Plan’’ The plan forces the companies to hire locally and create jobs for the local communities.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

In Africa if you take a risk and it goes wrong it can have a far greater impact on you, your employees and community. But in countries like South Africa and Ghana entrepreneurial failure is seen by many as shameful. However, this capacity for risk and a lack of fear of failure is not uniform across the whole continent.

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11 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. I believe MyCorporation is on the right track for this growth and I’m excited to keep hiring new talent to come join our incredible team! Thanks to Deborah Sweeney, MyCorporation ! #10- Photo credit: Chisa Pennix-Brown.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

I wanted a Ghanaian delicacy that I had grown up on ( I was born in Ghana), and that meant getting up and going to the only African shop in the city. This developed into another question: Even more, since there’s so much that goes on within the community, how can I know in one place, on my phone, what’s going on?—?in

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It has opened the door to youth sports for kids in my community as well as eliminate the theft that occurs in youth sports that aren’t being monitored. For every bottle sold, we give 5 years of clean water to a person in Ghana (we’ve helped people in Namibia and Malawi in the past too!). So, that’s it!

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NYC 3.0

thebarefootvc

Now that I’m back full time in NYC, I decided to run for the Board of NY Tech Meetup, a dynamic community of 20,000 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers and people interested in tech. Third, we want to make sure that our tech community is inclusive to all.

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