What are the indications of a real product market for African startups? What does it take to achieve real product market fit? 

We got answers for these and more in our conversation with Bright Ahedor serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Kudigo and Startup mentor at MEST Africa with over a decade of experience building, leading and mentoring African startups.

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Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship

As we slowly welcome ourselves back from the internet blackout that hit major parts of Africa including Ghana, we had a conversation with telecommunication and software expert Raphael Acquah who currently leads software strategy at MTN Ghana to have an understanding of Ghana’s internet infastrusture and how it all works.

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⁠⁠⁠Gen F by Founder's Fund

Benjamin Sackey a seasoned product designer and manager with over a decade of experience working in Ghana's product design and development space discussed how the space has evolved over the last ten years in this episode of Building Bytes.

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⁠⁠Gen F by Founder's Fund

In this episode of Building Bytes, we delve into the story of Vanessa Leonie-Mensah, CEO of VDL Fulfilment, and how she pioneered Ghana's tech-enabled fulfillment infrastructure. Her journey began with a quest for a superior courier service for personal use.

This episode serves as an interlude for the Hall of a Decade season, which will resume next week.

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⁠Gen F by Founder's Fund

Eyram Tawia's journey of pioneering Africa's game development industry from Ghana is one full of passion and a bouquet of lessons, 15 years on Eyram tells the story of the early days of game development in Africa and founding Leti Arts with the Building Bytes Hosts.

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Gen F by Founder's Fund

Entrepreneurial Support Organizations [ESOs] play an important role in the development of startups, in this episode we sat with Olufemi Adewumi [Mr. Femi], the Program Director at MEST Africa to talk about the impact ESOs have contributed to building global startups.

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⁠UNICEF StartUp Lab

MEST Training Program

In 2010 Ghana had no technology hubs, today in 2024 there is a hub in almost all the 16 regions in Ghana.

We spoke to the founder of Ghana's first indigenous tech hub, iSpace who doubles as the President of Ghana Hubs Network about how Ghana's Innovation hub space has evolved over the years and what's next for that sector.

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UNICEF StartUp Lab

It's a new year and a new season at Building Bytes, the guys are back.

In this episode, they interview Eric Nsarkoh, a Telecommunication Giant who in the span of his career, led Innovations of telecoms like MTN, Airtel and Tigo, he shared his account on the evolution of Mobile Money in Ghana.

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MEST Training Program

Just as Sam Altman's stay at OpenAI has ended, so has the first season of Building Bytes, it's been a great experience and thanks for listening, see you next year and have a fun holiday ahead.

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Accra Lawtech Hangout

Every thriving tech ecosystem is built on the foundation of strong communities, most of these communities are in various sectors of the ecosystem and in this episode, we highlighted a few of them.

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Ghana Digital Innovation Week 2023, 6-8 Nov at AICC

Ghana Fintech Awards 2023 Nominations Officially Opened