Quick Hits Around Africa

by HASH on April 29, 2008

Building a Startup You Love is Hard
A new paper by South African Gareth Knight that gives valuable advice for new entrepreneurs in the digital space. He’s the creator of Kindo, a family tree application.

Startups Nigeria Blog
I’m really digging this new blog by a Nigerian named Loy. He’s covering some cool new apps by Nigerians, including CVCrib, which I plan on reviewing myself soon.

Nigerian Web Apps

Techpreneurs in Kenya
A PDF document by Business Daily that discusses some of the brilliant young entrepreneurs and their ideas in Kenya. Here’s the PDF for download

“Why Africa May Never Produce a Microsoft, Google, Yahoo or Facebook”
An interesting article that discusses the challenge that young college-level entrepreneurs face in Africa.

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1 Facebook » Quick Hits Around Africa 04.29.08 at 12:40 pm

[...] White African wrote an interesting post today on Quick Hits Around AfricaHere’s a quick excerpt “Building a Startup You Love is Hard” A new paper by South African Gareth Knight that gives valuable advice for new entrepreneurs in the digital space. He’s the creator of Kindo, a family tree application that has over 250k users in the first year. Startups Nigeria Blog I’m really digging this new blog by a Nigerian named Loy. He’s covering some cool new apps by Nigerians, including CVCrib, which I plan on reviewing myself soon. Techpreneurs in Kenya A PDF document by Business Daily th [...]

2 Loy 04.29.08 at 2:09 pm

Thanks Erik for that quick review about Startups Nigeria. I enjoy reading your blog “WhiteAfrican”…you sure must have great love for Africa.

3 oneafrikan 04.30.08 at 5:40 am

Thanks for the plug Erik!! ;-) And glad you enjoyed the paper…

4 startupsNigeria.com Empowers Nigeria’s Web Startups « StartupsNigeria 05.04.08 at 12:02 pm

[...] in Nigeria that are making an impact in today’s new web space. startupsNigeria has been partially reviewed at White African, a blog that writes about technology and how it is impacting and can change [...]

5 Startups Nigeria » Blog Archive » startupsNigeria.com Empowers Nigeria’s Web Startups 05.07.08 at 4:39 pm

[...] in Nigeria that are making an impact in today’s new web space. startupsNigeria has been partially reviewed at White African, a blog that writes about technology and how it is impacting and can change [...]

6 StartupsNigeria » Welcome to StartupsNigeria.com 05.07.08 at 10:03 pm

[...] has been reviewed by Sturvs, WhiteAfrican and Kabissa. Clickhere to read [...]

7 Kenyan Pundit » Quick Hits May 27 05.27.08 at 11:13 am

[...] – Hash covers techpreneurs in Africa. [...]

8 StartupsNigeria » StartupsNigeria Sets Goal for Alexa Top 100 000 websites 10.31.08 at 5:38 am

[...] several social media players and blogs and has also been reviewed by a few sites. Some of them are: White African, StartupAfrica, Sturvs, Kabissa, African Trade Hub, Notjustok, TechMASAI, Naijagal. The site also [...]

9 StartupsNigeria Sets Goal for Alexa Top 100 000 websites - Start-Up News | Internet Startups 10.31.08 at 8:26 am

[...] several social media players and blogs and has also been reviewed by a few sites. Some of them are: White African, StartupAfrica, Sturvs, Kabissa, African Trade Hub, Notjustok, TechMASAI, Naijagal. The site also [...]

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