It is no longer necessary to wait for your diploma to begin your entrepreneurial career in Tunisia. At least, that’s what 40% of Tunisian startup founders who are still in college believe.
According to Startup Tunisia’s 2021 annual report, students not only play a vital role in this entrepreneurial dynamic, but more than 14% of startups are formed only by students!
According to the research, 56.7% of student entrepreneurs are from technical courses. Esprit University ranks first with a representativeness of 18.3%, while INSAT ranks second with 4.2%.
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Are the younger generations achieving greater gender equality? No, there is only one woman among the five student entrepreneurs.
Think again if you believe that the entrepreneurial momentum is the result of the law on student-entrepreneurs! According to the Startup Tunisia document, 71.8% of startup student founders do not benefit from this legal framework, which is also not applied within universities in 14.7% of situations.
This legal status benefits only 9.9% of student entrepreneurs.
Download the report here.
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Charles Rapulu Udoh
Charles Rapulu Udoh is a Lagos-based lawyer, who has several years of experience working in Africa’s burgeoning tech startup industry. He has closed multi-million dollar deals bordering on venture capital, private equity, intellectual property (trademark, patent or design, etc.), mergers and acquisitions, in countries such as in the Delaware, New York, UK, Singapore, British Virgin Islands, South Africa, Nigeria etc. He’s also a corporate governance and cross-border data privacy and tax expert.
As an award-winning writer and researcher, he is passionate about telling the African startup story, and is one of the continent’s pioneers in this regard. You can book a session and speak with him using the link: https://insightsbyexperts.com/view_expert/charles-rapulu-udoh