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Yesterday, NandiMobile, a start-up from the MEST Incubator won a“Best Business” award at the LAUNCH conference in San Francisco, in competition with almost 100 Silicon Valley start-ups! While other start-ups won bigger awards, the “Best Business” award is nevertheless a huge win for everybody at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST).
About the ‘LAUNCH’ conference
The LAUNCH conference is a platform for new start-ups to showcase their products and services to an ‘early adopters’ community. The conference also provides opportunities for already launched companies to showcase new products. This year, from the 23rd – 24th of February 2011, the conference hosted close to 100 start-ups from around the world, showcasing their ideas and products at the San Francisco Design Center.
I was moved and so incredibly proud to see Anne and Edward up on stage in front of everybody presenting their product Gripeline , to a panel of judges, including Chris Sacca, and an audience of hundreds! Gripeline, is a customer support service that allows customers of companies to send feedback, comments and questions to companies using their mobile devices.
I was nervous myself and felt my heart beat a little faster when they walked on stage, but throughout their presentation they both showed a lot of confidence and made all of us proud!
RetailTower and Streemio, also start-ups from the MEST Incubator, represented MEST and Ghana in style, showing the Silicon Valley crowd that software can be made ANYWHERE!
GREAT JOB GUYS and congratulations to the MEST Team!
Jorn 
Jorn Lyseggen
In 2001, with only $15,000, Jorn founded Meltwater News, a B2B media search engine company offering business intelligence services, which has now grown into the Meltwater Group. Jorn also founded the non-profit Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), designed to provide training and mentoring to young African entrepreneurs aspiring to launch new, Ghana-based software companies. A Norwegian entrepreneur and patent holder with four start-ups, Jorn has two trade sales and one IPO to his credit. The most rewarding aspect of Jorn's career continues to be helping young people develop into confident and capable managers, which makes him proud of Meltwater and MEST and gives him continued motivation.
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Very good guys and keep it and wishing you all the best on the international stage and also back home.
Congratulations Nandi mobile for the great work you have begun.
We look forward to more of such….
Cheers
Congratulations! Great to see tech companies in Gh getting recognition.
keep up the good work! Get other engineers involved to evolve in-built solar chargers for mobile phones in Ghana and Africa.
Congratulations NandiMobile. You did a wonderful job at San Francisco.
Good job guys. A great job well done. Hey! but the race just got started. We cant wait to see Nandi Mobile blossom.
Good job once again.
I have been following the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School closely and I am glad to see it bearing early dividends. I wish NandiMobile and the teams equal success in the market