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Innovators in Africa face challenges highlighted at Indaba2023. One overlooked point: don't expect support from family, friends, system, or government when building a startup. #AfricaInnovators #Challenges
@CharletteDesire - Charlette Desire 🚀
@darlingtinho highlighted some of the challenges we face as innovators in Africa during #Indaba2023. My thoughts In comments 👇🏾 #Africa #Innovators #Ecosystem #Challenges #africantalent https://t.co/XFAKDkbzQK
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In the US, the ecosystem supports startups, with key stakeholders and the entire domain sector involved. However, in many African countries, it's the opposite. They need to win over international institutions and funding agencies before their own people will support them. This is a common problem for startup founders who seek validation from external bodies. It's a terrible thing that we rely on external validation to accept our own startups.
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Speaker 0: Get the larger ecosystem, the domain sector, key stakeholders and everything buying to what you're doing all within the U. S. And then there's that expansion, the rest of the world hears about it. In a lot of African countries, it's the reverse. It took us winning over the support of all the international institutions and partners and funding agencies to get our own people to want to work with us.
And I think that is a terrible thing. And I've spoken to a lot of startup founders. This happens a lot. I think it's one of the worst things we Kudu. We seek validation.
The only way we accept our own startups is if they are validated by all these external bodies, and that is the worst thing ever to me.
@CharletteDesire - Charlette Desire 🚀
The third point he made is often overlooked because, as the saying goes, "Nobody asks you to build a startup, not your family, not your friends, not the system, not the government, so don't expect anything from them."