“Good ideas are common – what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about.” – Ashleigh Brilliant That a startup’s business idea will not address any prob…
The promise of the African startup ecosystem to investors
In the past, the perception of Africa by the rest of the world was always on the negative side. However, tech entrepreneurs are gradually becoming the face of the continent, with ground breaking succe…
3 Take-homes for Entrepreneurs from Fashola’s N78m Website Saga
Few weeks ago, our attention was drawn towards one of the activities of the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, the case of a N78 million website upgrade among other things …
DoviLearn is an eLearning Marketplace
A Nigerian startup, Dovichi Services is joining the eLearning market with DoviLearn. DoviLearn is an online education marketplace for skills acquisition or career upgrade. The startup has partnered wi…
3 Key Elements to Keeping Your Business Ideas Alive
Despite the large chunk of business ideas that do come to life, there are tonnes of ideas that might never see beyond their second anniversary. So, let’s look at a few of the top elements with which c…
Prince Andrew, Dangote and Obasanjo team up for African Entrepreneurship Programme
An initiative of the Global African Investment Summit, the African Entrepreneurship Programme (AEP) is on a mission to give support to entrepreneurs and young businesses in Africa. The initiative is s…
10 assumptions about Key Ingredients for success, from a decade of investing in Startups
First Round, a Venture Capital firm did an analysis of her activities around funding technology startups for the past decade. The report which looked into 300 companies with about 600 founders gave 10…
5 Key Elements for a Great Startup Pitch
I have had the opportunity of listening to a lot of startups pitch their idea — for funding or contest — and while some pitches are just perfect, others are nothing to write home about. So…
Kwikudi is the new Alternative Funding platform
Raising funds for creative ideas without much of the red-tape around conventional financing is a common problem the world over. Among the numerous challenges that startups have to deal with, at any st…
5 solid reasons why Nigerian startups fail too early
Over the past, I have been a big fan of learning, most times from failure. But this piece is not about my past experience or shying away from the reality that startups do fail at their early stage. Ye…
Win a trip to Participate at the Lean Startup Conference
Business Insider in partnership with General Assembly is giving away a trip for two for the Lean Startup Conference 2015. Here’s a chance to kick-start your own path to innovation on a global sc…
Mytoddlr helps working-class parents monitor their children in real-time
Aside the demanding nature of professional married women and that of house keeping, another major concern is those of their kids in creche and pre-school. Mytoddlr promises to bridge the gap between p…
Doing eCommerce in Nigeria the Right Way, Killing the Monster
In 2012, Nigeria got answers to Amazon in Konga and Jumia, and these pioneers laid great precedent which paved way for the large number of eCommerce platforms. So far, so good, the eCommerce industry …
Mobile rules Facebook earnings for Second Quarter, 2015
Mobile advertising tops the table of Facebook revenue for the second quarter of the year. Mobile advertising has grown from nothing in 2012 to contributing more than two-third of total revenue and tri…
How FastForward Africa will connect African Startups to funding, support
Last month, we informed you about how FastForward Africa, the UK-based accelerator, is looking into supporting African startups, hence the call for applications into its pre-accelerator programme. As …
Tunde Kehinde, Mark Essien, Iyin Aboyeji, others to speak at Startup Africa Summit this October
The first ever Startup Africa Summit will hold in Lagos in October under theme ‘Building Critical Mass.’ The summit is being organized by CITC Global Consulting, Customer Passion Point Lim…
InstaCare: The ‘MasterCard of Health Insurance’ with 6.5m user base projection
Health insurance in Nigeria is at its infant stage with the baby successfully delivered, companies are beginning to lend a helping hand in making access to health insurance as seamless as it could be.…
Innovation Prize for Africa Calls for ‘Made-in-Africa’ Innovations for $150k
The Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) is calling on innovators and entrepreneurs on the continent to participate in the IPA 2016 competition, tagged ‘Made-in-Africa.’ The competition with 2016 to be i…
Kangpe App: Professional healthcare advice at your fingertips
In the quest to help people make better healthcare-related decisions, the Kangpe Health Services is lending a helping hand with the Kangpe App. The Kangpe app is a mobile application that allows users…
Appsafrica.com Opens Application for Innovations Awards 2015, Apply Now
In celebration of mobile, technology and entrepreneurship and their positive impact on Africa, AppsAfrica is calling on innovators of the continent to apply for the Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards. T…