#9 | The Agile Growth Entrepreneur Newsletter
This week I explore Part 4 of 5 on “How To Get Your First 5,000 Online Customers.” Affiliate marketing may be a robust approach for rapidly expanding a user base. Affiliate marketing is an excellent
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Affiliate marketing may be a robust approach for rapidly expanding a user base. There is little danger and a lot of potential gains. You incur a cost only when a user completes the desired action on your site.
Affiliate marketing is an excellent strategy for getting Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and prominent bloggers to write about your brand. Bloggers and influencers love passive income, so you can be sure they’d be at least mildly interested in being paid for their participation.
There are a variety of methods an affiliate may use to promote your product. They can employ AdWords, and other paid advertising methods, create a podcast or video for YouTube, send out cold emails, publish blog entries, and so on. You can do everything you set your mind to.
Pan - African Startup Stories
Africa Defies Global Trend With Funding for Startups Surging - BNN Bloomberg
This Lagos-based VC firm is improving diversity by funding women - Techpoint Africa
Introducing Emerging Tech Africa - Techpoint Africa
Opportunities and roadblocks in Africa’s nascent HR tech space - Disrupt Africa
African Startups Have Received $1.7 Billion So Far in 2022 - Tech Weez
Funding for African startups set to reach record highs- Money Web
Africa’s crypto adoption numbers continue to break records as blockchain investment grows - Finbold
Why Africa’s crypto wave attracts funding - Mail & Guardian
A Quick Look at African Startups Fundraising in July 2022 - Tech Build Africa
Pan - African Startup News
Identity verification company Youverify extends seed funding to $2.5M as it expands across Africa - TechCrunch
Driving insurtech in Kenya and Africa: Female-led Lami Technologies raises $3.7M funding - Tech Funding News
Zedcrest launches $10 million 'emergency fund' for African startups - Yahoo News
African-Focused VC Firm Oui Capital Secures $30 Million Second Fund - Innovation Village
South Africa’s Qwili Raises $1.2 Million to Enhance SmartPhone, Internet Penetration in Africa - Tech Economy
South African digital bank TymeBank to acquire fintech startup Retail Capital - Techcabal
Web 3 Africa
Web3 entrepreneurs in Ghana and Zimbabwe are showing how crypto can be used for social good - Business Insider
Kenyan web 3 start-up gets nod for Draper VeChain accelerator - Venture Burn
Venture Studio Stories
Billie Jean King, Los Angeles Dodgers Form Trailblazer Venture Studio to Grow Women’s Sports - Sport Techie
Spur, a fund of funds, targets $200M to bet on early-stage VC in a downturn - TechCrunch
Launching a fund, Ulta Beauty demonstrates the tenacity of corporate venture capital - Best Gaming Pro
Venture Studio News
Enhance Ventures launches $30M Builders Fund to aid the Future of finance and commerce for MENAPT - SME 10X
CoCreate Ventures acquires Startupreneur’s Platform to scale its operations - APN News
Tracking Venture Studios - Center for Data Innovation
Launching a fund, Ulta Beauty demonstrates the tenacity of corporate venture capital - Deal Street Asia
What I’m Reading
You no longer need to be a billionaire or rocket scientist to participate in space.
Three things you need to know about space:
It is an industry that is notoriously complex—which means it is misunderstood.
It influences and benefits nearly every other industry on the planet.
Accessing space has never been easier.
Space Is Open for Business is an outstanding guidebook for the ultimate space-enabled business plan.
Meticulously researched and edited for the most time-challenged reader, Space Is Open for Business provides a framework for those outside of the industry to understand the critical context that led to the commercial movement known as NewSpace.
This book includes:
Insights from over 100 experts, including industry leaders and investors, into the economics and strategies for leading the trillion-dollar race to commercialize space.
Breakdown of the space economy verticals.
How space, arts, and culture are deeply linked.
A 360-degree view of the wide-ranging space industry, its emerging opportunities, investment potential, benefits on Earth, and more.
Space investor and entrepreneur Robert C. Jacobson provides a comprehensive overview of this spectacular industry, allowing everyone on Earth to understand the integral role space plays in our lives, how it will continue to transform the world, and how you could participate.
In the vein of Mary Roach, Jacobson makes a complex topic easily understandable—and accessible—for every reader.
Space as an industry offers a triple bottom line: Return on Investment, Innovation, and Inspiration.
INVESTMENT
Imagine if you had the opportunity to invest in Apple when it was new and undiscovered—would you do it?
Space is a culmination of many disciplines, and it works in tandem with various industries. The sector’s growth depends on merging different fields with cutting-edge technologies, fantastical ideas with logical applications.
Investors, including John Doerr, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, RRE, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Andreesen Horowitz, took notice and are backing companies in this growing sector.
INNOVATION
Space is the sector with the most unlimited potential for progress and collaboration. When space advances, other industries benefit. When other industries advance, space benefits as well—innovations and progress multiply.
From Hollywood to navigation, communications devices to streaming services, medical discoveries to robotics, agriculture to energy, all of these industries affect space and are affected by space—much like bees pollinating flowers.
Jacobson proposes that space startups can borrow tactics and strategies developed by other entrepreneurs and thought leaders—such as Peter Thiel, Eric Ries, and Ben Horowitz—to improve space startups' probability for success.
INSPIRATION
What do Jules Verne, Star Trek, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, Jerry Pournelle, Andy Weir, and David Bowie have in common?
For centuries, artists and creators have helped inspire real space efforts. They merged space with arts and entertainment to construct visions and stories that helped us articulate, amplify, and imagine what is possible—ultimately influencing and shaping reality, from Moon missions to mobile phones.
What will we accomplish over the next decade? Is there a way to achieve great personal success and benefit others—maybe even all of humanity?
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