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Harvard Venture Stories: OZÉ and the asset-based mindset
Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min · 6 segments
Meghan McCormick's first venture in Africa tried to build businesses from scratch. But then by taking an asset-based approach, she realized that if Africa's huge base of existing small businesses…
Meghan McCormick's first venture in Africa tried to build businesses from scratch. But then by taking an asset-based approach, she realized that if Africa's huge base of existing small businesses could each grow just a little - enough to hire just one employee a year — that would make a big dent in the continent's worrisome unemployment problem. OZÉ is now the top business app in Ghana on the Google Play Store.
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Meghan McCormick's first venture in Africa tried to build businesses from scratch. But then by taking an asset-based approach, she realized that if Africa's huge base of existing small businesses…
