Entrepreneurship: tips and ideas for finding financing

Philippe Simo, founder of Investir au pays, Diara Ndiaye and Eric Ntonfo, founder of two crowdfunding platforms: Kwendoo and Fiatope.

RFI / Beverly Santu

By: Diara Ndiaye Follow

2 min

Very often, financing a start-up turns out to be a real obstacle course.

However, it is essential to find funds because the development and sustainability of the company are at stake.

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Launching an innovative project remains costly and requires bringing together material and human resources which must be financed at the various stages of its development.

Whatever the type of projects concerned, depending on your profile, your location, your development ambitions, multiple financial mechanisms exist to help entrepreneurs: personal contribution, "love money" is -to say the money your family will be willing to invest in your business, the use of participatory financing (crowdfunding), or opening your capital to investors, to name a few ...

How to find financing to start a business?

Guests

, director of fintech relations for a pan-African bank (common thread, on the phone);

, founder of Investir au pays;

, founder of two crowdfunding platforms: Kwendoo and Fiatope.

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