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Entrepreneurs in Africa: Hurdles for hubs
非洲企業(yè)家：中心障礙
The going is tough for African Tech-Hubs and startup incubators.
對于非洲的科技中心和新興孵化器來說，前景艱難。
“You are either part of the solution or part of the problem,” it says in painted letters on a wall.
一堵墻上用油漆字寫著：“你是解決方案的一部分或者是問題的一部分。”
“Stay hungry, stay foolish,” says the wall opposite.
對面墻上寫著：“求知若饑，虛心若愚。”
An old rickshaw sits among beanbags and a vase of flowers rests on an ancient oil barrel in the corner.
一輛舊的人力車安放在豆袋坐墊間，角落有一瓶花放在古老的油桶上。
“We wanted the space to feel like Google,” says Eleni Gabre-Madhin, the founder of blueMoon, a new agribusiness incubator that opened in Addis Ababa in February, without a trace of irony.
在Addis Ababa二月新成立的一家農(nóng)業(yè)綜合企業(yè)孵化器——藍月亮的創(chuàng)始人Eleni Gabre-Madhin說：“我們想要像谷歌那樣的空間，”沒有一絲諷刺之意。
Incubators and their cousins, accelerators, provide hands-on training and mentoring, and often a physical space, to help early-stage business ideas develop.
“孵化器”和他們的表兄弟加速器提供實際的培訓和指導，往往是一個物理空間，以幫助發(fā)展早期的商業(yè)理念。
In Silicon Valley they find capital for startups and take a slice of equity in return for their services.
在硅谷，他們?yōu)閯?chuàng)業(yè)公司尋求資本，并獲得一部分股權(quán)作為他們服務的回報。
Ms Gabre-Madhin says that blueMoon draws inspiration from Y Combinator, an American accelerator founded in 2005 whose investees include Dropbox and Airbnb.
Gabre-Madhin女士說，藍月亮從Y Combinator獲得了靈感，Y Combinator是美國一家成立于2005年的加速器，該公司的投資包括了Dropbox（云服務系統(tǒng)）和Airbnb（愛彼迎短租網(wǎng)）。
The new firm's first cohort of startups will train at the office for four months, and it will give each a small cash injection in exchange for a 10% stake.
這家新公司的首批創(chuàng)業(yè)公司將在辦公室培訓四個月，并且它會向每個公司投入一小筆現(xiàn)金以換取10%的股份。
That is a rarity in Africa's startup scene.
這種創(chuàng)業(yè)場景在非洲十分罕見。
A simpler and more common model is for “tech hubs” to provide office space, some networking events and fast broadband internet.
“技術(shù)中心”是一個更簡單和更常見的模式，它能夠提供辦公空間、一些網(wǎng)絡(luò)活動和快速寬帶互聯(lián)網(wǎng)。
A recent survey counted over 300 such facilities on the continent.
最近的一項統(tǒng)計調(diào)查顯示，非洲大陸上有著300多個這樣的設(shè)施。
One of the first hubs was iHub in Nairobi, launched in 2010, which has an incubation arm focused on mobile technology, called m: lab.
iHub是內(nèi)羅比的第一批中心之一，成立于2010年，iHub有一個主要集中在移動技術(shù)的孵化裝備，稱之為m:lab。
But m: lab, like many of its kind, is not a real incubator: it was founded with grant support from the World Bank and takes fees from, but not equity in, the companies that it nurtures.
但是和ihub許多類型一樣，m:lab不是一個真正的孵化器，因為它是由世界銀行資助成立，從其扶持的公司收費，而并不持有股份。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
