Local Entrepreneurs Urged To Look Beyond Borders

Local entrepreneurs have been urged to collaborate and form networks with their regional counterparts in order to stimulate regional expansion.

Speaking at the second annual Africa Youth Entrepreneurs Summit (AYES) last week, founder and president of AYES Lemogang Senwelo said the summit was aimed at building partnerships amongst business people thus identify ways of expanding into other markets within Africa and beyond. Senwelo emphasised on the need for networks as they bridge existing gaps in the economic, trade and the investment spaces.

“It is important to bridge all these things together and shed light on how corporate companies can’t function without entrepreneurs because we provide services for them as much as entrepreneurs can’t survive without corporate companies because we need them to buy into the services that we provide for them,” she said.

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