Africa’s Capital Markets must learn to price Vision too.
Every entrepreneur in Ghana knows the question. “Do you have three years of audited accounts?”
Dr. Maxwell Ampong
Today’s global capital markets increasingly place a premium on strategic positioning, ecosystem leadership, technological capability and future market dominance. Investors are no longer evaluating only what a company has achieved. They are also assessing what it is capable of becoming.
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Wonderful article.