News & Events

August, 2012

TAN August Event: Creating Strategic and Tactical Solutions for African Businesses

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Entrepreneurship in Africa has an opportunity to change global economies by focusing on smaller businesses and local deliveries of products that can be networked to behave with equal speed, agility and capabilities of any larger company because of instant globalization and Android Smart Phones. End-to-end results for local manufacturing and/or distribution can grow reliably while meeting the needs of upward growth into larger economies within and outside of Africa. Building reliability into your product requires a strategic position to build reliability into your company.

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March, 2012

TAN March Event: Solar Magic Box

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This networking event in March will be held on Thursday, March 29 at the Fenwick and West Facility, Mountain View California. It will feature entrepreneur and TAN member Idrees Munir's Solar Magic Box endeavor and how that is promoting education in rural African countries.

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December, 2011

Harvesting African Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Promotion of Trade and Commerce between the USA and Africa

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A full evening of compelling presentations by distinguished speakers on topics relevant to social entrepreneurship, renewable energy opportunities, and trade between the US and Africa.

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October, 2011

Astia 2011 Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Program

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Pre-screened, select start-ups at all stages of high-growth will be invited to join Astia and experience our hallmark program that has resulted in a greater than 60% funding success rate for prior participants. Astia focuses on Technology, Life Science and Clean Technology sectors...

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July, 2010

Incubating Future Entrepreneurs and Seed Funding

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One of TAN's core missions is to showcase the entrepreneurial opportunities in Africa. This Membership Networking Event (MNE) will be geared towards showcasing what some companies are doing on the continent to provide seed funding and other resources needed for future software entrepreneurs.

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June 4, 2010

The World Affairs Council and its Young Professionals International Forum (IF)

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The World Affairs Council and its Young Professionals International Forum (IF) welcome you to a celebration of Africa. All too often, people think of Africa as one large country that is uniform in its culture, its race, its desperation and despair.

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January 26, 2010

TAN President/CEO to Speak at MPI/USAID Diaspora Entrepreneurship Round-Table

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TAN President and CEO, Dr. Paschal Iwuh, will be one of the speakers at this year's Entrepreneurship Round-table in Washington, DC. This event is put together by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and USAID. It is aimed at examining the role that members of Diasporas play as entrepreneurs and investors in their countries of origin or ancestry

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