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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

A frugal tap in Ghana. We’ll also look at some examples of startups that have used this approach to significant effect. Look for new ways to drive growth for your startup. History of frugal innovation. Image Credit: Amuzujoe.

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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. Rwanda is an agricultural country and a lot more is to be done to develop the skills needed to diversify the economy. It is remarkable that the inclusion of women is high and more women are employed than men.

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Startup founders in Southeast Asia, it’s time to step up

The Next Web

The service solves a universal problem for companies but it happens that it was built in Ghana, where the internet penetration rate is just 40 percent. Less than two years later, it became the first startup from Africa to receive funding from 500 Startups. As of 2013, Dropifi had over 6,000 paying customers in 30 countries worldwide.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

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!). Since I’m of Ghanaian descent and grew up hearing stories of how my family didn’t have access to water, I decided that GiveMeTap would help people in Africa get access to clean water.

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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

” Divine’s chocolate is farmed by the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. Divine has made it their mission to “make the world a place where chocolate is cherished by everyone, including the family farmers who grow the cocoa.” The 85,000 farmers in the cooperative are co-owners in the company.

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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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Lean Startup Beyond the Tech Sector

Startup Lessons Learned

She is working toward affordable waste removal in Kumasi, Ghana, a city of 2.5 He sold out of machines before even getting Series A funding. You can MVP just about anything, as we learned from Jocelyn Wyatt of IDEO.org. million where 72% of people do not have in-home toilets.

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