Meet the who's who in venture capital investing, Part 3
This piece offers you some insight into the key figures that run the show in venture capital.
7 interesting facts about transportation in Ghana (Ft. Bolt, Uber, Yango and “Trotro”)
Ghana has the highest mobile phone penetration in West Africa
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with unique subscriber penetration averaging 55%. 3G coverage accounts for 60%
of total connections and 4G is gaining substantial traction.
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Miss Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old teenager who serves as the student ambassador and content creator on the Learn at Home audio e-learning platform, has won 19 scholarship offers worth over $5 million from top schools in the US and Canada.
Getting into YCombinator as an African founder
We applied to Ycombinator three times before acceptance - and what made us successful was our ability to articulate the problems we were solving and the opportunities therein.
How Whispa Health is creating safe, stigma-free access to sexual health services for Africans
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10 Nifty tools built by Nigerians
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