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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I was also sick of my own curated life on Facebook and thought, there must be a place more interesting than this to hang out online. It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon. I decided to make my product using a green approach. One less worry for moms.