When I posted the article “20 Ideas for Social Entrepreneurs” I was pretty sure I’d soon discover a number of those ideas already being implemented that I simply wasn’t aware of prior to writing it. One of those services is MyC4 which takes the idea of peer-to-peer lending and allows people from all over [...]

CEO Tom Iseghohi comments to CNBC on the state of doing business in Africa today.

Everyday there seems to be new speculative articles about African progress and investment opportunities. Today is no different, here’s an excerpt from a report by Forbes commentator John Christy that suggests the same:
“In 1989, there were just five sub-Saharan stock exchanges; now there are 16.
Granted, these are still immature markets in many respects. Stock-market [...]

A recent report from the World Bank has some interesting findings related to the African continent…
Politicians, donors and businesspeople with African investments increasingly claim that conditions on the ground are improving: economic policies are improving, economies are growing faster, the region is more politically stable and governance is getting better. Some of these assertions are [...]

People ask me a lot about the financial climate in Africa and where they might considering investing. Here’s a few recent facts about the African continent economies…

Coming in 2008…Investors Without Borders will launch a web-based marketplace connecting individuals across the globe with opportunities to invest directly in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries. Investors gain access to return-oriented, social impact investments by directly funding SME loan requests with as little as $100 per loan. Borrowers gain access [...]

When I initially began Appfrica one question I asked myself was: “Why is the world VC community at large ignoring a continent with nearly a billion people?” Of course there are a number of reasons:

Perceptions
Lack of Faith
Ignorance
Failed Prior Attempts

All of those are valid concerns but only one of them is a realistic reason for making [...]