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Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds

Harvard Business Review

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. I had taken two excellent courses on microelectronics, and decided that I could build a business around them in my native Nigeria. Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market.