Introduction Whilst the rate of women’s entrepreneurship is increasing, currently about 70% of men’s in the US for example, the access to finance picture is somewhat bleak with female founders receiving only 2.2% of VC funding in 2018. Yet venture capital is essential to enabling fast...
Entrepreneurs often suffer from “lonely at the top” syndrome, the stressful feeling of isolation that comes with being the main decision-maker running a business. Networking has been suggested as a remedy to alleviate those feelings. But for female entrepreneurs who grapple with balancing long work days...
(above with Dr Amy Jadesimi, Bimpe Nkontchou, Marianne Mazou, Yvonne Ike) Honoured to be among some of Africa's leading business women at the highly successful FT Africa Summit held in London today convened by Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Yvonne Ike, Managing Director and Head of Sub Saharan...
France has been on lock down since midnight last night. Non- essential services including restaurants and tourist sites, and schools from today are shut. I had planned a week off from the office to attend a residential programme at Cambridge. That has been cancelled and instead it...