Posts by: Amma Baffoe

Top 10 facts about running a start-up: MEST guest lecture series

By Amma Baffoe On March 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Each year at MEST, 4 times in a year, guest lecturers (mostly global entrepreneurs and business executives) fly to Ghana  to share their experiences – both successes and failures with the MEST community.  Last weekend (2nd  & 3rd March 2012) we were privileged to have had 3 entrepreneurs in the persons…

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3 African startups to pitch tonight @MPA 2012 – Barcelona

By Amma Baffoe On February 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Tonight in Barcelona, at the 6th annual Mobile Premier Awards,  the top 20 global apps from the AppCircus 2011 World Tour will pitch live for the ‘best app of the year’ award.

For the first time, out of the 47 AppCircus World Tour winners from 26 countries, 3 are from Africa (Ghana,…

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Interview: Saya’s solution to cross-platform mobile group messaging

By Amma Baffoe On February 20, 2012 · 1 Comment

Video interview: Robert Lamptey, CEO Saya Mobile talks to Thorgeir Einarsson, founder at Afriversity from South Africa.

Image by: Saya

This evening (20th February, 2012) in Ghana’s capital city, Accra, an all new group-messaging platform for the java, android and blackberry platforms will be launched!

‘A 1,000x cheaper than SMS’, Saya is a free cross platform chat…

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Building ‘tech start-ups’ from Ghana

By Amma Baffoe On January 18, 2012 · 1 Comment

A very happy 2012 to all our readers. This year, all of us at MEST have one objective, and that is “to develop software startups from Ghana that can also compete successfully in the global market space”. We wish you all the best and stay tuned for more exciting start-ups…

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“the need to be opportunistic when you’re an unknown start-up…”

By Amma Baffoe On December 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Image Credit: Technology Woman

As part of a series of interviews of young African entrepreneurs featured on the Afriversity network , based in South Africa – the Afriversity platform is “an open entrepreneurial ecosystem for African entrepreneurs to connect, learn share & thrive” .

Blaise Bayuo, co-founder of RetailTower from the MEST Incubator talks to Thorgeir Einarsson, CEO…

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