#3 | The Agile Growth Entrepreneur Newsletter
This week, we feature stories from Nairametrics, Business Insider, Ventures Africa, Disrupt Africa, Face2Face Africa, QZ, Forbes + News from TechCrunch, Techcabal, Techpoint Africa & more.
Welcome to this week's Agile Growth Entrepreneur Newsletter
From The Agile Parallel Entrepreneur
This week I explore “Building Tomorrow’s Smart Factory”. Before beginning my adventure as an entrepreneur, I worked in business development as a control systems engineer and would frequently go to the city of Vernon, California, a city located close to Los Angeles in Southern California to visit a variety of factories in the area.
Working with different clients at the time and visiting many factories taught me a lot about running and managing a factory. As I embark on the process of launching my venture studio, Seraphim Ventures Studios, in Los Angeles and Nigeria, there are a few concepts for light manufacturing that we are exploring that have the potential to generate favorable opportunities.
In addition, we explore “Frequently Asked Questions About Venture Studios”. Creating a successful startup from the ground up is no easy feat. As a first-time business owner, you face unique challenges in team building and capital raising. Unfortunately, 90% of startups fail, so we must figure out where we fall short and make adjustments.
Venture studios function somewhat like startup factories since they create new businesses. Studio teams, whether independently or as part of a larger corporate innovation division, use both internal and external resources and relationships to generate ideas for new businesses, find suitable founders, and help those businesses get off the ground.
Pan - African Startup Stories
📝 Why the Venture Capital model in Africa has not worked well enough – Ndubuisi Kejeh, founder, Mustard (Venture Studio) - Nairametrics
📝 The startup ecosystems in Africa are an 'overlooked investment opportunity' – VC Fund (Knife Capital) - Business Insider
📝 Africa's Tech Space is Thriving Amidst a Global Meltdown - Ventures Africa
📝 Meet the Investor: Tobi Oke, V8 Capital Partners has been investing in African startups since 2013 - Disrupt Africa
📝 Meet the founders of Chipper Cash, the startup worth billions of dollars - Face2Face Africa
📝 Why Africa’s top CEOs are so hyped on Côte d’Ivoire - QZ
Pan - African Startup News
Ghana’s Fido raises $30m Series A to broaden financial inclusion in Africa
Kenya-based food-tech startup Kune shuts down due to lack of funding
Afropolitan Raises $2.1 Million to Bring Web3 to the African Diaspora
Venture Studio Stories
📝 3 Steps to Building a Successful Company Culture - The Washington Independent
📝 3 Models Of Entrepreneurship: Why Unicorn-Builders Do Better Than Unicorn-Starters - Forbes
📝 Venture studio bridges the gap between startups, financiers
Venture Studio News
Fighting startup failure: Innovate Carolina rolls out a venture studio approach
Ben Wylie and Yamen Sader launch web3 Solana venture Lab Eleven
V1 Studio’s Scientific Venture Program looks to recruit its next crop of entrepreneurial researchers
What I’m Reading
52 Proven Nonprofit Fundraising Ideas to Raise Funds in 2020
The Best Startup Pitch Videos Follow these Rules - Beverly Boy
How to pitch your startup to an AI journalist - And, more importantly, how not to
The Week in Podcasts
New White Papers and eBooks
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