Inventure Management Ltd.: Sustainable Sanitation Design

Inventure Management Ltd.: Sustainable Sanitation Design: It's confirmed that the first participating company presenting on the SEED Forum Nairobi is : Sustainable Sanitation Design : Sustainable...

The Social Entrepreneur's Dilemma | Share on LinkedIn

The Social Entrepreneur's Dilemma | Share on LinkedIn:

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WORLDWIDE #JELLYWEEK 2012

We are Jelly #100

WORLDWIDE #JELLYWEEK 2012:

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Inventure Management Ltd.: SEED Forum in Nairobi, Kenya

Inventure Management Ltd.: SEED Forum in Nairobi, Kenya: Then it's official! We are planning the first SEED Forum in East Africa on the 21. June 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya. We are SEED Forums pa...

Africa Impact Report

Africa Impact Report:

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Social Enterprise Europe - What is Social Enterprise

Social Enterprise Europe - What is Social Enterprise:

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SocEntLab East Africa: Nobel Peace Price to Africans

SocEntLab East Africa: Nobel Peace Price to Africans: Nobel Peace Price to Africans, Africas first female president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, peace activist Leymah Roberta Gbowee and yemenite T...

Inventure Management Ltd.: VC4Africa Meetup - Oslo, Norway - Eventbrite

Inventure Management Ltd.: VC4Africa Meetup - Oslo, Norway - Eventbrite: Our fellow member Svein Mork Dahl has stepped forward with the idea to host the first VC4Africa meetup to be help in Oslo, Norway. I think ...

Africans want to be entrepreneurs and don’t want to rely on handouts – Dambisa Moyo

Erin Burnett interviewed Dr. Dambisa Moyo, the author “Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa.”

Moyo argues that Africa needs innovative ways to finance development, which includes trading and accessing capital markets. In a nutshell, Dr. Moyo’s argument follows the old Chinese Proverb about how giving a man a fish feeds him for merely a day, but teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. Dambisa Moyo completed her Ph.D in Economics at Oxford University and has a Masters from Harvard University.

In May 2009 Dr. Moyo was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine. The clip is from June 10, 2009. Is this conversation and the points she makes in this interview still relevant going into 2012?

Inventure Management Ltd.: Roundtable Africa Conference

Inventure Management Ltd.: Roundtable Africa Conference: Roundtable Africa Conference : "Round Table Africa is organizing the international Sustainable Business Conference “Business resilience, sus...

The hopeful continent: Africa rising | The Economist

The hopeful continent: Africa rising | The Economist:

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SocEntLab + *iHub_ Nairobi

Our new innovation playground in Nairobi. Come visit!


*iHub_ – Nairobi’s Innovation Hub for the technology community is an open space for the technologists, investors, tech companies and hackers in the area. This space is a tech community facility with a focus on young entrepreneurs, web and mobile phone programmers, designers and researchers. It is part open community workspace (co-working), part vector for investors and VCs and part incubator.



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Can Venture Capital Save The World? - Forbes

Acumen Fund and similar VC Funds are doing a great job here in Africa, but what I could wish for is even more seed capital. A recent survey showed that the access to seed capital is essential, and ranked as the number one factor hindering entrepreneurs today. Hope we in the future can see even more seed funds and VC funds operating in Africa.

What I want is more startup and business accelerator programmes, and more knowledge sharing between entrepreneurs in Africa and the developed world. We've been working on an idea of an online "virtual" startup programme connecting local entrepreneurs here in Kenya with mentors in Norway using videoconferencing and social media. If we succeed I think both parties can benefit from it. Our local entrepreneurs can get knowledge and hopefully access to seed funding, and our mentors will get access to investment opportunities and knowledge about an up and coming emerging market.

Acumen fund opened the eyes of many for a new kind of philantrophy, but at least many European donors are still old school, and wants to build health clinics and childrens homes. Something tangible to take pictures of and show off at home.

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