{"id":3242,"date":"2018-03-16T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2018-03-16T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:07:15","slug":"meet-ja-gabon-alumnus-and-young-entrepreneur-willy-moreau-founder-ana-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/meet-ja-gabon-alumnus-and-young-entrepreneur-willy-moreau-founder-ana-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet JA Gabon Alumnus and Young Entrepreneur &#8211; Willy Moreau, Founder, Ana &#038; Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willy Moreau is a young entrepreneur who participated in JA Gabon\u2019s Company Program, funded by Citi Foundation in 2015. At that time he was a high-school student at Coll\u00e8ge Secondaire Ambourouet and developed a multi-functional domestic broom in collaboration with his team.<\/p>\n<p>The company won first place at the National Company of the Year competition that year. Today, he is a university student and is still putting his entrepreneurial skills to use.<\/p>\n<p>Moreau returned to JA Gabon during his studies for support in developing a new busin<a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/willy-jpeg.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3245 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/willy-jpeg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>ess project: a sweet popcorn franchise in high-schools. The name of the project is <strong>Ana &amp; Will<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with one high-school, he is now running two branches of his business in two different locations. Moreau is pursuing a one year JA mentoring program and has applied for a loan from a local bank in order to open more branches.<\/p>\n<p>He credits the Company Program as his greatest experience as a student &#8211; one that launched his entrepreneurial career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>After the program, I decided to continue my apprenticeship by pursuing the mentoring program.\u00a0 I started by putting together an action plan. I conducted good market research, which gave me the motivation to start my activities. I conducted my test in the market and my main clients are colleges, high schools, individuals and recreation centers. The next step I have to take now is completing the<a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wily-2-jpeg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3246 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wily-2-jpeg-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a> funding plan. after that I can apply for a seed fund that will allow me to expand my business.<\/em>\u201d says Willy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willy Moreau is a young entrepreneur who participated in JA Gabon\u2019s Company Program, funded by Citi Foundation in 2015. At that time he was a high-school student at Coll\u00e8ge Secondaire Ambourouet and developed a multi-functional domestic broom in collaboration with his team. The company won first place at the National Company of the Year competition &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/meet-ja-gabon-alumnus-and-young-entrepreneur-willy-moreau-founder-ana-will\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet JA Gabon Alumnus and Young Entrepreneur &#8211; Willy Moreau, Founder, Ana &#038; Will<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ja-alumni"],"acf":{"featured_alumni_video":"","year":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}