Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from November, 2017

My interview with Startup Valley UK.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017 FounderTalk   You can’t build a company alone, you need a team   11/20/2017   Sabine Elsässer   0 Comments   Africa ,  African fashion ,  African manufactured ,  Da Haven ,  home design ,  Omowunmi Ayeni +1 share tweet share Pin it share Da Haven is a marketplace where people can buy and sell African manufactured pieces Please introduce yourself and your start-up Da Haven to our readers! I’m Omowunmi Ayeni and the Founder of Da Haven. Da Haven is an online and offline platform where people can buy and sell African fashion and home designs. The name Haven signifies a safe place and Da Haven is that safe place for quality and affordable African manufactured pieces. We are creating a community of Afro-centric products. How did you get the idea to Da Haven? Da Haven was founded to solve a practical problem of absence of an o...

Opportunity: Call For Proposal

The U.S. African Development Foundation invites proposals for grant financing and local support, from African enterprises, cooperatives, and producer groups with innovative solutions that extend their own capabilities to increase revenues, create jobs, improve farmer incomes, and achieve sustainable market-based growth. Maximum award US $250,000 Deadline: January 29,2018 Eligibility:  Proposals will only be accepted from registered agricultural cooperatives, small-scale producer groups, and agricultural processors working directly in the sectors and countries listed below. Check for more details here:  USADF USADF is an independent U.S. Government agency established to support and invest in African owned and led enterprises that improve the lives and livelihoods of people in poor communities in Africa. Follow me :  Facebook , Instagram , Linkedin , Twitter

Opportunity: Global Entrepreneurship bootcamp 2018

About: Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp is an intensive educational/leadership session that brings together many young entrepreneurs from around the world and place them on a common platform to innovate and create new businesses by collaboration. The bootcamp is designed to groom your innovations and new ideas into startups. We provide the platform to interact with our mentors, successful entrepreneurs who are willing to hear what budding entrepreneurs are thinking of and guide them to the right path to making a successful startup. GEB also brings together many like-minded entrepreneurs from different parts of the world. It is an incredible opportunity to be exposed to new cultures and perspectives, both entrepreneurial and otherwise. It is also an opportunity to exchange and share ideas with other participants. We believe that healthy competition is essential for learning, which is why we have designed Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp to also be a competition between teams that ...

Opportunity: Apply for Digital Lab Africa

Digital Lab Africa call for projects is open to any professional or individual in multimedia creation: artists, producers, start-up, SMEs, collectives, students or entrepreneurs from Sub-Saharan Africa. The applicants have to be based in this region or being nationals of one of the Sub-Saharan African countries, provided the project development is mostly implemented locally. Digital Lab Africa is looking for projects at initial stage of development, in need of partners and financial support and innovative in terms of narration, content or technologies. The call for projects by Digital Lab Africa focuses on five categories of multimedia productions: Web creation Transmedia  Virtual Reality  Video Game  Digital Music Animation  Selected applicants will take part in a Pitch Competition.   Prize: The winning projects win a  3,000 € cash prize Digital Lab Africa Incubation Pass  to support the proje...

A love note to entrepreneurs.

Hello Friend, thanks for visiting my blog. Glad to have you here.💃 This post is my first published post since i created the blog in 2013.☺ And its a love note to you... Entrepreneurship is interesting and also tough.  When you feel like giving up, take a break and come back to read this note  or send me a mail so we can cheer each other up. Picture Credit: Striking truths.