Jez Says - International Entrepreneurship

Dignified Wear is a social enterprise which empowers people with disabilities in rural Ghana by employing them in the manufacturing of fashion products made from recycled materials. Mabel talks about the inspiration from her grandmother's experience with leprosy, the need for environmental concern and reconsideration in business, and some of the difficulties of starting and running a business in Ghana.

Pepeta Discounts is an early stage startup which allows people to purchase airtime at a 5% discount.

Imagine We Rwanda is a social enterprise publishing house inspired by Dominique's work and experience setting up libraries to encourage greater levels of literary engagement and discovered that "children were getting frustrated because they don't look like us". Now she encourages Rwandan writers (poets, bloggers, and anyone who writes) to author books and create relatable content for East Africans. An inspirational story of learning with all stakeholders in unison; writers, other entrepreneurs, and the government as they build an entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Three-Minute-Moments episodes give a quick download of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. This supplements the longer interview-based episodes with some of my own reflections, data points, and conversation snippets. Today's Three-Minute-Moments episode is about Rwanda, a small landlocked country in East Africa with 12.7 million population and rated 29th in the world for ease of doing business.

Straight out of university into full-time entrepreneurship. Roots Digital started their story as a contract development software company which enabled them to build their own products without taking on external investment. Thryll, their first product launched, is an event management solution making organizers' lives easier and enabling consumers to find relevant events more seamlessly. Part of the product's success is the integration of mobile money, USSD dialing codes to pay through mobile networks, Kingsley discusses the importance of mobile money integration in products developed here.

Three-Minute-Moments episodes give a quick download of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. This supplements the longer interview-based episodes with some of my own reflections, data points, and conversation snippets. Today's Three-Minute-Moments episode is about Accra in Ghana - a country with 30 million population and an economy larger than New Zealand's.

Paul shares his story of how he went from selling insurance to currently building his 4th startup. Appruve is a fintech startup building infrastructure, starting with identity management solutions, for other African entrepreneurs and businesses to build on. Enlightened by his inability to participate in a profitable investment opportunity, Paul realised that many people in African countries miss a lot of opportunities so decided to facilitate innovative initiatives that will open doors for everyone to participate, fully, in their economy and their community. Recorded in Accra, Ghana, Paul shares some of the benefits and difficulties of starting here. You can find out more about appruve at: https://www.appruve.co/