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I recently got back after spending an intense and inspiring week in Nigeria with my colleague Tove, visiting previous participants of SE Forum’s SE Outreach Accelerator. We flew to the continent to meet our alumni in person, discuss their updates and see what had happened after they left Sweden. In my role as Social Impact…

Being one of the eight social entrepreneurs selected out of 900 applicants to attend SE Forum’s SE Outreach Acceleratorin Stockholm came with a lot of excitement. But it also came with a worry about what would happen to my business if I was out of operations for the duration of the program. I’m glad to say…

I wish to pursue a career in environmental social impact and believe that being a Founder/CEO of my own company provides both challenges and opportunities to develop. But earlier this year I was at a difficult cross road concerning the day to day challenges of managing my company EcoFuture’s finance management. However, everything changed when…

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – African saying I was selected out of 890 applicants to be among the eight participants who were to participate in SE Forum’s SE Outreach Accelerator in Stockholm, Sweden. As the plane lifts from Africa, you feel that…

Being an entrepreneur it is imperative to make most out of every opportunity that comes my way. My selection for SE Forum Accelerator Program in December was the best news of the year 2016. I was ecstatic to find out that I was among the eight selected out of 890 applicants. I was eager to…

By: Nodumo Fikile Magadlela, SE Entrepreneur – SE Outreach 2016 I found myself standing inside the Uppsala Cathedral. Behind me the choir was singing a beautiful song that lifted the spirit as high as the building’s columns. It was in that moment that I understood why my life’s journey had let me to this place. How…

By: Luciana Oliveira, SE Entrepreneur – SE Outreach 2016 Looking back at the three months that passed since I rejoined my team in São Paulo after the life-changing three weeks with SE Forum in Stockholm, I cannot help but feeling proud of what we achieved in such a short period of time. It’s impressive what a…

By: Francis Adereti, SE Entrepreneur – SE Outreach 2016 It’s been about three and half months since I left Stockholm. I had acquired so much energy to implement all the new ideas and strategies which I was privileged enough to have been exposed to in the city. One of the main creative insights I obtained, out…

By: Derrick Hosea Opio, SE Entrepreneur – SE Outreach 2016 Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the second most prolific tech hub in the world on a per capita basis, producing 6.3 billion-dollar companies per million people, compared to Silicon Valley’s 8.1, according to a recent report from the investment firm Atomico. In April I…