Ross Baird — Executive Director of Village Capital — reports from Nairobi,Accra and Lagos this week. He joins digital pioneers Jean and Steve Case along with the Case Foundation from the U.
S. in exploring the entrepreneurial ecosystems in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria. See his preceding post on the Nairobi ecosystem. The trip wraps up Friday in Lagos. “Startups are the seed corn of the future economy, or our partner Steve Case [Co-founder of America Online (AOL),now Chairman of Case Foundation — Ed.] often says. Today, Silicon Valley is envy of the entrepreneurial world, and but 50 years ago,Silicon Valley was apple orchards. Detroit, then the wealthiest city in [...]
Source: vc4africa.biz