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The Slippery Slope of Creeping Scope

Posted March 9, 2010 on FreelanceFolder.com

Uncontrolled scope creep costs you money.

When a client asks you to do something that wasn’t part of the original

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Added by Oilid Mountassar on March 9, 2010 at 8:35pm — No Comments

N7.4m can build a twin duplex with Moladi technology

A South African firm, Moladi Building Communities and its Nigerian subsidiary has introduced a super low cost housing technology to the market.

Unveiling the over 24-year-old low cost building technology on Thursday in Lagos, the Chief Executive of the firm, Mr. Hennie Botes, said the technology is unparalleled in super low

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Added by Hennie on March 9, 2010 at 8:16pm — No Comments

Citadel capital's stormy entrance into East Africa

Pls read

http://www.ratio-magazine.com/201002232161/EAC-Regional/EAC-Regional-Citadel-Capital-Planning-Beyond-the-Railway-Tracks.html

The age old rivalries and distrust between blacks and Arabs has reared up its ugly head again in this Citadel deal. While the rivalry, distrust and misgivings between sub Sahara Africa and Arabs will… Continue

Added by Nwakego Eyisi on March 9, 2010 at 2:44am — No Comments

SA firm unveils Moladi building technology in Nigeria

Efforts to facilitate the construction of mass housing by the Nigerian government has received a boost, with the unveiling of the Moladi building technology from South Africa, in Lagos, last week.

At the public presentation of the pilot scheme of the project, Chief Executive Officer of Moladi, Mr. Hennie Botes, remarked that the Moladi technology combines a lightweight, reusable and recyclable modular injection moulded plastic shutter plastic formwork syste

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Added by Hennie on March 8, 2010 at 10:10pm — No Comments

Do you want to PROMOTE your Business, Services and Products?

Fifteen years ago, Street-Strom-Direct Marketing has come to take the ‘frontline’ when it comes to advertising and marketing of many brands, product, goods and services. Street-Storm-Direct Marketing has taken the position of linking the brand/product to the final consumer. Thereby becoming the tool that delights most companies in Nigeria /Africa.

Vickezo Productions has t

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Added by VICTOR EZE OKWUCHUKWU on March 8, 2010 at 2:01pm — 1 Comment

Mobile Web: Leapfrogging East Africa into the future

“Ideas on mobile are Africa’s creative capital; this is how we will leapfrog into the future. These ideas however must get off the ground and this is where the first bottleneck is encountered. Having been part of two startups in the mobile vertical, I have experienced firsthand the hardships of rais… Continue

Added by Ben on March 8, 2010 at 11:06am — No Comments

The increasing popularity of West Africa

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Added by Thomas Armitt on March 6, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Leadership Development in Africa – Part 2: Delegation

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Added by Lex Lindeman on March 5, 2010 at 10:42am — No Comments

moladiNIGERIA launches low cost quality housing construction technology - Create jobs and house the BoP

We are proud to announce the launch of moladi

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Added by Hennie on March 5, 2010 at 10:29am — No Comments

Help AAEA Support Economists from Africa

The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Foundation is inviting nominations for an economist from Africa to be awarded a travel grant to attend the

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Added by Pete Johnson on March 4, 2010 at 10:08pm — No Comments

Missing files and Tender Entrepreneur Brokers

“The abuse of entrusted power for private gain is always fine for the one person doing it, but it becomes catastrophic if everybody starts doing it.” - David Pitt-Watson

Last night on… Continue

Added by Fiona Mati on March 2, 2010 at 1:31pm — 1 Comment

STREET-STORM-DIRECT-MARKETING FOR YOUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

There’s a lot of advantage in devoting effort to the way brands, products, goods and services are being positioned in the heart of consumers. Not forgetting the fact that the market could be a porous and very sensitive one. So much has been done by the press, print and electronic media, let alone the numerous online promotional styles being put in place to reward loyal customers in order to put brands/goods/services/products in their rightful place. With all these, more needs to be done to prom… Continue

Added by VICTOR EZE OKWUCHUKWU on March 1, 2010 at 6:44am — No Comments

Growth Finance: An Alternative Funding Source for SMEs in Africa

Originally posted at www.afribiz.info.

Lack of funding for SMEs in Africa is consistently reported with few bright spots. However, there is an emerging funding option called Growth Finance. On the February 10, 2010 AfribizTalk show, Guido Boysen, Chief Investment Officer of Grofin, shared insights into the Growth Finance industry for SMEs.

Boysen briefly shared how Growth Finance compares to other financial options

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Added by Lauri Elliott on March 1, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

Tapping the Nigerian Internet Market Goldmine

Nigeria is a country of over 150 million people, located in sub-Saharan Africa and one of the fasted growing telecom market in the world. Let’s me take you through the emergence of the internet market in Nigeria, the potential, and how to

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Added by Ben on February 25, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing World

About the Lecture Where aid programs and government policies fail, small-scale business people armed with the latest technology can succeed. Damien Balsan perceived that in developing nations, ordinary “bottom of the pyramid” merchants -- taxi drivers, plumbers, electricians -- could grow their businesses if they could accept secure credit card payments. So Balsan equipped mobile phones with a card reading stripe and pulled together a credit network. After first testing his n… Continue

Added by Ben on February 24, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Abraham Rich Capital

i am running conferences and workshops for aspiring entrepreneurs around Zimbabwe, will be hosting business consultants in tax and investments and other pertinent areas of business. I will be hosting motivational speakers and success coaches. By the way I can supply very acurate research and investment information as well as informed opinions in different areas of Business for investment to foreigners. We are building businesses for sale in 18 months-- do you have any information or contacts to… Continue

Added by cyprian chabvepi on February 24, 2010 at 10:18am — No Comments

Africa Freelance Kick Off!!!

Dear Fellow members,

It is very common in Africa for people to work as independent workers and the culture is very open to Freelance concept. Yet, there are many infrastructural challenges that make it difficult for the continent to be more involved in freelance work over the internet, like payments and access to resources.

I am convinced that in this group, we will be able to think about ways we can help develop this type of work in Africa and facilitate the access to remote… Continue

Added by Oilid Mountassar on February 23, 2010 at 5:20pm — 1 Comment

Launch of the eVentures Africa Fund - Finally investors ready for African tech!

eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund) is launched in January 2010 by

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Added by Ben on February 22, 2010 at 10:50pm — 1 Comment

Opportunites for American Entrepreneurs in International Trade with Africa

Originally posted at www.afribiz.info

This is the first article in a series highlighting the various government ecosystems across the world that support entrepreneurs and SMEs to do business in Africa. Entrepreneurs and SMEs do not typically have their own ecosystems to capa

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Added by Lauri Elliott on February 16, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Tony Blair urges private equity community to invest in emerging African economies

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Added by YILKAL on February 11, 2010 at 9:08pm — No Comments

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