The MEST Blog http://blog.meltwater.org Discussing African tech entrepreneurship from our campus in Accra, Ghana Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:25:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Investing in Tech in Africa Event featured in BingBooster! http://blog.meltwater.org/investing-in-tech-in-africa-event-featured-in-bingbooster?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=investing-in-tech-in-africa-event-featured-in-bingbooster http://blog.meltwater.org/investing-in-tech-in-africa-event-featured-in-bingbooster#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:24:50 +0000 Victoria H. http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1356 Read a summary of the #Investing in #Tech in #Africa event we hosted in SF last month by BingBooster.

The next @MESTghana event will take place @MEST in Ghana on the 7th June, sign up here.

]]> http://blog.meltwater.org/investing-in-tech-in-africa-event-featured-in-bingbooster/feed 0 RetailTower’s CEO, Blaise Bayuo, interviewed by BingBooster! http://blog.meltwater.org/retailtowers-ceo-blaise-bayuo-interviewed-by-bingbooster?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=retailtowers-ceo-blaise-bayuo-interviewed-by-bingbooster http://blog.meltwater.org/retailtowers-ceo-blaise-bayuo-interviewed-by-bingbooster#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:04:41 +0000 Victoria H. http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1348 Blaise, CEO of RetailTower,  spoke with BingBooster during his recent US tour:

BINGBOOSTER: Africa’s Startup Scene: Challenges, Successes and Community

 

 

]]> http://blog.meltwater.org/retailtowers-ceo-blaise-bayuo-interviewed-by-bingbooster/feed 0 RetailTower win one of ten international scholarships to Launch Conference 2012 in San Francisco http://blog.meltwater.org/retailtower-win-one-of-ten-international-scholarships-to-launch-conference-2012-in-san-francisco?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=retailtower-win-one-of-ten-international-scholarships-to-launch-conference-2012-in-san-francisco http://blog.meltwater.org/retailtower-win-one-of-ten-international-scholarships-to-launch-conference-2012-in-san-francisco#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:24:37 +0000 Victoria H. http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1340 RetailTower, a SaaS product that helps merchants list and market their products online, have won a scholarship place in the Demo Pit at the Launch Conference 2012. They will be be one of 40 companies demoing their product which provides a single point of integration between existing ecommerce platforms and comparison-shopping…

]]> http://blog.meltwater.org/retailtower-win-one-of-ten-international-scholarships-to-launch-conference-2012-in-san-francisco/feed 1 Top 10 facts about running a start-up: MEST guest lecture series http://blog.meltwater.org/top-10-facts-about-running-a-start-up-mest-guest-lecture-series?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-10-facts-about-running-a-start-up-mest-guest-lecture-series http://blog.meltwater.org/top-10-facts-about-running-a-start-up-mest-guest-lecture-series#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:07:55 +0000 Amma Baffoe http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1327 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…

]]> http://blog.meltwater.org/top-10-facts-about-running-a-start-up-mest-guest-lecture-series/feed 0 3 African startups to pitch tonight @MPA 2012 – Barcelona http://blog.meltwater.org/3-african-startups-pitching-tonight-mpa-2012-barcelona?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-african-startups-pitching-tonight-mpa-2012-barcelona http://blog.meltwater.org/3-african-startups-pitching-tonight-mpa-2012-barcelona#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:38:36 +0000 Amma Baffoe http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1313 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,…

]]> http://blog.meltwater.org/3-african-startups-pitching-tonight-mpa-2012-barcelona/feed 0 Interview: Saya’s solution to cross-platform mobile group messaging http://blog.meltwater.org/interview-sayas-solution-to-crossplatform-mobile-group-messaging?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-sayas-solution-to-crossplatform-mobile-group-messaging http://blog.meltwater.org/interview-sayas-solution-to-crossplatform-mobile-group-messaging#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:45:15 +0000 Amma Baffoe http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1301 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…

]]> http://blog.meltwater.org/interview-sayas-solution-to-crossplatform-mobile-group-messaging/feed 1 Building ‘tech start-ups’ from Ghana http://blog.meltwater.org/building-tech-start-ups-from-ghana?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=building-tech-start-ups-from-ghana http://blog.meltwater.org/building-tech-start-ups-from-ghana#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:34:47 +0000 Amma Baffoe http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1292 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…

]]> http://blog.meltwater.org/building-tech-start-ups-from-ghana/feed 1 “the need to be opportunistic when you’re an unknown start-up…” http://blog.meltwater.org/need-to-be-opportunistic-when-youre-an-unknown-start-up?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=need-to-be-opportunistic-when-youre-an-unknown-start-up http://blog.meltwater.org/need-to-be-opportunistic-when-youre-an-unknown-start-up#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:11:32 +0000 Amma Baffoe http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1261

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…

]]> http://blog.meltwater.org/need-to-be-opportunistic-when-youre-an-unknown-start-up/feed 0 Mobile music streaming service launched in Ghana – first time ever! http://blog.meltwater.org/mobile-music-streaming-service-launched-in-ghana-first-time-ever?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mobile-music-streaming-service-launched-in-ghana-first-time-ever http://blog.meltwater.org/mobile-music-streaming-service-launched-in-ghana-first-time-ever#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:01:25 +0000 Amma Baffoe http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1246 Mobile music streaming from Ghana!

More exciting news coming from Accra, Ghana!

“It’s been long coming! After two years of work, the Streemio team will give members of the entertainment and business press a peek at our service…” said Streemio, in the form of an update from the start-up’s facebook fan page earlier this week.

Some background…

]]> http://blog.meltwater.org/mobile-music-streaming-service-launched-in-ghana-first-time-ever/feed 2 Looking back: Did social media curb election fraud in Zambia and other African countries? http://blog.meltwater.org/looking-back-did-social-media-curb-election-fraud-in-zambia-and-other-african-countries?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-back-did-social-media-curb-election-fraud-in-zambia-and-other-african-countries http://blog.meltwater.org/looking-back-did-social-media-curb-election-fraud-in-zambia-and-other-african-countries#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:32:48 +0000 Ylva http://blog.meltwater.org/?p=1213

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Back in September we reported about how BantuWatch (on the Ushahidi platform) was used to collect crowd-sourced reports on electoral irregularities in the Zambian presidential elections. Today, we are following up on the results of the campaign and the impact this technology had.

But before that, lets take a look in the…

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