The Innovation Village in partnership with Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works program, has announced a nationwide program to strengthen success of youth start-ups in Uganda. The program dubbed, ‘Business Foundations - Start Your Startup’ will provide foundational knowledge, skills, and tools required for one to start their business, or increase the chances of
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Start Up Financing: Should It Be Debt Or Equity Financing?
By Hassan Kitenda,CAIA Starting your own business can be a direful but gratifying process. While designing a great business plan is critical for founders, financing is one of the most important elements a company needs to succeed. Financing is needed to start a business and ramp it up to profitability.
Read MoreYoung Innovators At Universities Asked To Protect Their Creations To Reap Benefits
An image of the low-cost ventilator prototype developed by Makerere University to aid in the treatment of patients with COVID-19. Intellectual property (IP) protection has been deemed critical for protecting Uganda’s proprietary designs, processes, and inventions that, if leaked to competitors or made public, could ruin the country's market advantage
Read MoreFrom left: Nicky Oppenheimer of South Africa, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria and Nassef Sawiris of Egypt In Africa—as elsewhere in the world—the wealthiest have come through the pandemic just fine. The continent’s 18 billionaires are worth an average $4.1 billion, 12% more than a year ago, driven in part by
Read MoreThe Innovation Village Partners With CIT To Provide Tech Trainings To Low-income Earners
The Innovation Village has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CODEIT Institute of Technology The Innovation Village has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CODEIT Institute of Technology (CIT) to provide software development training to technologists in Uganda. The training targets students seeking to improve their skills and a software
Read MoreCOVID RECOVERY: Tony Elumelu Foundation Opens Applications For 2021 Entrepreneurship Programme
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy dedicated to empowering African entrepreneurs, has opened applications on its TEFConnect digital platform (www.tefconnect.com) for the entrepreneurship program of 2021. Applications for TEF 2021 went live on January, 1, 2021. This year’s intervention prioritises the economic recovery of small and medium scale
Read MoreTycoon Sudhir (2nd Left) officially launching Noor's Restaurant located at Kingdom Kampala Mall City businessman Dr Sudhir Ruparelia has urged Ugandans to stay safe and look after themselves from Corona virus pandemic as they enter new year 2021. Dr Sudhir Ruparelia made the remarks while officiating at the opening of Noor's Restaurant
Read MoreAs a keen badminton player Ugandan Catherine Nakalembe wanted to study sport science at university but a failure to get the required grades for a government grant set her on a path that led her to Nasa and winning a prestigious food research prize, writes the BBC's Patience Atuhaire. When
Read MoreAbsa Bank Uganda Wins Best Banking Group Brand & Best CSR Bank Of The Year Awards
Mumba Kalifungwa, Absa Bank Uganda MD (L) and Harriette Kasirye, Head of Marketing & Corporate Relations, pose with the certificates received by the bank. Absa Bank Uganda has been named the Banking Group Brand of the Year (Uganda) and Best CSR Bank (Uganda) 2020 by the Global Banking & Finance
Read MoreThe Innovation Village Partners With Facebook To Prepare SMEs For COVID-19 Resilience & Recovery
The Innovation Village through Upskill in partnership with Facebook has today launched the Boost with Facebook webinar series. The Webinar that will go on for three days under the theme ‘Leveraging digital platforms for Covid-19 SME recovery’ seeks to share skills and knowledge to help small businesses build resilience to
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