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The Nigerian government may claim to be cutting the cost and time it takes to register a business in the West African country. But officials…
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Rocket Internet to Spur incident, five of Ventureburn’s interesting reads of 2017
It was a busy year again for Ventureburn — with Bitcoin going crazy, Google opening an Africa accelerator, entrepreneurs coming forth with bizarre solutions to…
