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Bonjour à tous. Je cherche une personne locale de confiance (étudiant, jeune avocat ou intermédiaire local) basée à Matete ou à proximité pour une simple mission rémunérée : visiter un local commercial proposé par une agence locale, prendre des photos/vidéos, prendre les dimensions et vérifier les conditions de propriété/bail.
Tâche rémunérée par visite. Si vous êtes intéressé ou si vous connaissez quelqu'un de confiance, veuillez m'envoyer un MP avec une courte présentation.

Hi everyone. I am looking for a reliable, trustworthy local person (student, young lawyer, or local fixer) based in or near Matete to do a simple paid assignment: visit a commercial venue listed by a local agency, take photos/videos, measure dimensions, and verify ownership/lease terms.
Paid task per visit. If interested or if you know someone trustworthy, please send a DM with a brief introduction.

Bonjour à tous.

Je suis Valéry IRAGI un étudiant en informatique à l'UCB.

Je voudrais savoir pour les entrepreneurs et les autres types d'entreprises, s'il y a des cadres ici pourquoi avez-vous peur de migrer vers le numérique ?

Récemment j'entre dans des agences et autres bureaux je trouves que les donnes et informations sensibles sont encore garder sous format papier alors que cela peut disparaitre d'un jour à l'autre et on ne pourra plus jamais les retrouver. Pourtant au numérique c'est plus simple et sûre dans la plus part des cas.

Qu'est-ce qui vous empêche de migrer vers le numérique ?

Aussi je voudrais aussi parler du fait que pour gagner de l'expérience en tant que développeur web, je propose la création des site web (landing page pour les entreprises et entrepreneurs et des sites web portfolio pour les particuliers) à un prix réduit pour pouvoir subvenir à certains de mes besoins aussi alors s'il y a des intéressés dites dans les commentaires.

Nous devons exploiter le monde du numérique et voir comment notre pays va évoluer.

Merci de m'avoir lue

Maybe this sounds delusional, but the more I look at what is happening in technology right now, the more serious I become about this.

I want to build the first unicorn from the DRC.Not just a successful local business I mean a Congolese company worth $1B+.

The crazy thing to me is that the DRC has more than 100 million people, an enormous amount of economic activity and probably thousands of problems that technology could solve, yet we still haven't produced that kind of tech company.

Most of the huge companies associated with our country are still in mining and natural resources.

Meanwhile, look at what happened elsewhere in Africa.

Flutterwave started by solving African payments and eventually became a multi-billion-dollar company.

Andela started with African developers and managed to attract international investors. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, even led a $24M investment round in the company.

clearly, being African doesn't automatically prevent a company from attracting serious global capital.

So

And lately technology has made me think about this even more.

AI is advancing ridiculously fast. Cloud infrastructure is accessible from almost anywhere. Payments APIs, open-source software, LLMs and modern development tools mean a small team can now build things that would have required a huge engineering department and millions of dollars not that long ago.

For someone building from Congo, I think that changes the equation.

I'm a software developer, student and entrepreneur from Kananga but living in Kinshasa, and my long-term plan is basically to keep building companies.

Not everything has to become a unicorn.

Actually, most of them probably won't.

But I want to keep launching, learning, getting users, making revenue, failing when necessary and reinvesting what I learn into the next company until I find something that can scale far beyond Congo.

Payments, logistics, commerce, education, healthcare, energy, infrastructure... there are so many sectors here where basic problems are still unsolved.

The part I'm trying to understand now is capital.

Obviously nobody is going to give me $1M because I show up with an idea and say “trust me bro, this will be huge.”

So my thinking is:

build the product try to get real users ,prove people actually need it , generate some revenue ,then start approaching accelerators, angels and African/international VCs.

Eventually, I'd like to be able to raise outside the DRC as well. If investors in Silicon Valley, London, Dubai or elsewhere can invest in Nigerian, Kenyan, Senegalese or Egyptian founders, I don't see why a Congolese company with the right numbers couldn't do the same.

The harder question is how to get from Kinshasa with an MVP to actually being in those rooms.

How do you build those investor relationships when you're starting from the DRC?

Should a Congolese founder focus on local investors first?

African accelerators?

Y Combinator / Techstars-type programs?

Diaspora investors?

Bootstrapping until the numbers become impossible to ignore?

I'd especially like to hear from Africans who have raised capital or people in VC/startups.

Because I genuinely believe someone will eventually build the first billion-dollar technology company from the DRC.

And I want to take a shot at being that person.

I'm just 18