# Pan African Center for Entrepreneurship


## Posts

- [What’s Even a Startup in Africa?](https://withpace.org/2025/08/30/whats-even-a-startup-in-africa/): The Silicon Valley playbook is not useful in Africa.
- [The Money Is Not Coming](https://withpace.org/2025/08/30/the-money-is-not-coming/): "Thrilled to announce our $15M Series A!"
- [You Don't Need Permission to Launch Your Startup](https://withpace.org/2025/08/30/you-dont-need-permission-to-launch-your-startup/): Every founder hits a wall at some point. That moment when you start questioning everything: Is this worth it? Am I good enough? Will anyone invest in this?
- [Why Building Offline Matters for African Startups](https://withpace.org/2025/08/30/why-building-offline-matters-for-african-startups/): Building in public is cute. Delivering in private is how you pay rent.
- [Why Timing Your Funding Matters More Than You Think](https://withpace.org/2025/08/30/why-timing-your-funding-matters-more-than-you-think/): Many African founders believe that the next logical step after building an MVP is to raise money. It feels like the natural milestone.
- [What Really Drives Startup Investment in Africa](https://withpace.org/2025/03/24/startup-investment-africa/): African entrepreneurs face significant funding challenges, and the factors influencing investment decisions are intricate, multifaceted, and interlinked.
- [Welcome to Liouane.co](https://withpace.org/2024/12/10/welcome-to-liouane-co/): This is the question that has followed me throughout my journey, from mentoring startups to fostering ecosystems.

## Pages

- [The Method](https://withpace.org/method/): A loop for building a company where the data is thin, the benchmarks do not apply, and being wrong is expensive.
- [Brand](https://withpace.org/brand/): The facts, our files, and the rules for using them.
- [Porter’s Value Chain Guide](https://withpace.org/library/porter-value-chain/): Michael Porter’s value chain breaks a company into the separate activities it uses to design, produce, market, deliver and support its product.
- [Lean Startup Action Plan](https://withpace.org/library/lean-startup-action-plan/): Most early plans are a list of things the founder is sure about. This one is a list of things to check.
- [Alexandria Vault](https://withpace.org/library/vault/): If you believe that we missed a report. Send it to us ?
- [African Investors Database](https://withpace.org/library/african-investors-database/): A directory, not an endorsement. We have not worked with most of these firms, and being listed here says nothing about whether they will answer your email.
- [Investor Outreach Guide](https://withpace.org/library/outreach-guide/): Are you ready to raise?
- [One-pager Template](https://withpace.org/library/one-pager/): One page. If it runs over, cut. Do not shrink the type.
- [Announcements](https://withpace.org/announcements/): What we are doing, who we are doing it with, and when the doors open.
- [Funding Readiness Masterclass](https://withpace.org/library/funding-readiness/): Do you need to raise?
- [Impact Partner](https://withpace.org/record/impact-partner/): A company building for people with special needs and a seed-stage software company do not need the same session on the same day.
- [Deloitte](https://withpace.org/record/deloitte/): Tunisia · PROMISE, with the U.S.
- [Goethe Institut](https://withpace.org/record/goethe-institut/): The founders were not less capable than founders anywhere else. They were less seen.
- [Flat6Labs](https://withpace.org/record/flat6labs/): Most of Tunisia's support for entrepreneurs sits in the capital. Founders elsewhere have fewer places to turn.
- [Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies](https://withpace.org/record/allan-gill-gray-philanthropies/): Five founders who would not reach institutional capital on their own, each needing to be investor-ready by the end of the programme rather than merely better informed.
- [Terms of Sale: Markets Don't Lie](https://withpace.org/marketsdontlie/terms/): These Terms of Sale were last updated on September 17, 2026 and apply to every purchase of Markets Don't Lie through our website.
- [Privacy Policy](https://withpace.org/privacy-policy/): This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 4, 2026 and applies to everyone whose personal data we process through our website.
- [Cookie Policy (EU)](https://withpace.org/cookie-policy/)
- [First Reader Badge](https://withpace.org/marketsdontlie/badge/): The full book will release in 2027. We made a badge for the people who backed it this early. Share it and bring others into the conversation.
- [Archivart](https://withpace.org/record/archivart/): Artists across the continent were producing serious work without the tools to live from it.
- [Eneza Malipo](https://withpace.org/record/eneza-malipo/): We mapped the sales process in six steps, as it stood.
- [Terralima](https://withpace.org/record/terralima/): The product worked and the company around it did not yet: no licence to handle virtual assets, no measurement beyond counting farmers, one shareholder and no board, and under four months of runway.
- [Moti](https://withpace.org/record/moti/): Growth was real and nobody could prove it.
- [Ace Mobility](https://withpace.org/record/ace-mobility/): The rides that matter most are rarely the rides that pay best.
- [Thank you](https://withpace.org/marketsdontlie/thank-you/): Your copy is on its way. The download link is in your inbox, in an email from Markets Don't Lie. It usually arrives within a minute.
- [Markets Don't Lie](https://withpace.org/marketsdontlie/): A lot of entrepreneurship advice comes from markets that work very differently.
- [What We Do](https://withpace.org/what-we-do/): Three activities, one body of knowledge.
- [Homepage](https://withpace.org/): Many of the best are building where capital never looks: the wrong city, the wrong market, outside every portfolio.
- [The Thesis](https://withpace.org/thesis/): The binding constraint on African company-building is not a shortage of capable founders but a capital system that selects for legibility (familiar geography, accent, and narrative) instead of the business itself, leaving builders who are fundable on their numbers invisible wherever the story sounds wrong.
- [The Record](https://withpace.org/record/): Companies built by founders capital couldn't see, and the organisations helping them get built.
- [The Open Library](https://withpace.org/library/): Guides, tools and data from the work. Free, no email, no account.
- [Get in Touch](https://withpace.org/get-in-touch/): Founders, investors, operators and curious collaborators. Tell us your context, and we will tell you how we can help.


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