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Table of Contents
Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... 3
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 5
Pattern of Consistently Deteriorating Performance ............................................................................... 6
Pale and Male ......................................................................................................................................... 8
Start Them Young.................................................................................................................................... 8
Ecosystems vs EGOsystems and Funding ................................................................................................ 9
Policy Making and Governance ............................................................................................................... 9
Mobile Phones and Advertising Opportunities ..................................................................................... 10
Community Connectedness as a Competitive Advantage .................................................................... 11
Some Theories ...................................................................................................................................... 12
A History of Community ........................................................................................................................ 12
A Connected Community ...................................................................................................................... 15
“The Shortcut Problem” African Start-up Ecology 101 ......................................................................... 17
Evolution of the Ecosystem and Equilibrium ........................................................................................ 18
An Attempt at Descriptive Taxonomy of the African Tech Ecosystem ................................................. 19
The Entrepreneurs ................................................................................................................................ 19
The Venture Capitalists ......................................................................................................................... 20
The Government and Impact Investors ................................................................................................ 21
Local Investors, Local Seed Funds and Angel Investments ................................................................... 21
Accelerators, Incubators and Technology Clusters ............................................................................... 22
The Shortcut Problem and Why Collaboration is Important ................................................................ 23
Shameless plug you can ignore: ............................................................................................................ 25