ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. It has fast-developing infrastructure.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

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. Applications such as Xtify , Local Response , and Placecast provided turnkey mobile solutions for retailers to target consumers.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Africa is a huge and diverse continent, and over the last few years, it has emerged as one of the world’s hotspots for startups. In Africa, entrepreneurs have serious, intractable problems that western startups don’t face. Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus. by Sharon Fishburne. In fact, quite the opposite is true.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. As AngelList founder Naval Ravikant explains , Investors are trying to find the exceptional outcomes, so they are looking for something exceptional about the company. Is it growing?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. It has fast-developing infrastructure. A Different Valley Culture.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

People ask me if innovation can flourish in places like Africa and my response is that I encounter innovation everywhere there, when people are forced to innovate to survive, often with scarce resources. And now the mobile phone is empowering individuals at an unprecedented and accelerating rate.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. It is currently sold in Africa through Kenya’s largest medical distributor. Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

mobile applications, and software creating major opportunities for business leaders. Bezos also earns credit for developing the concept of “predictive analytics,” which targets product listings and advertisements to shoppers based on their shopping history. Perry Chen, Kickstarter CEO and Co-Founder.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2017

Ayoub Moutiya, co-Founder and CEO of Paparide Network , talks about how he was able to leverage the sharing economy to not only reduce traffic in cities, but also clean-up pollution along the way. Ayoub Moutiya, CEO and Co-Founder of Paparide Network. What is the Paparide Network, and how does it work? .

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Guest Post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co., First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. with Kirsten Cluthe as Contributor.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. When I started my first company in Berlin, I lived and worked in my apartment with one of my co-founders. Co-Up , mobilesuite , Raumstation. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 I’m the founder of Lime Inc., Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #2

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BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

As you can see from this Microsoft press release , the big opportunity is for Microsoft to use the TellMe voice-driven user interface as a key component for mobile handsets: We’ve made great strides in speech technologies, but have only scratched the surface of what is possible,” said Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division. “The

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. We are a startup social media dashboard in development, but have amassed over 5000 followers pre-beta.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. When my husband Andy and I started dating, I was finishing my Master’s in Anthropology of International Development, where I was focusing on West Africa. Thanks to Ethan Warren, Corner Piece Productions ! #7

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Replay the event. the previous year.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Disclosure:] I am the co-Founder of Market Motive Inc and the Analytics Evangelist for Google. Move from a data collection obsession and develop a crush on data analysys. Percent Mobile. So if you want really good mobile behavior data (in a separate but useful silo) then go get Percent Mobile. Three tools.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

SEL and Gamification ( link ) Using Authentic Student Stories to Reach Students ( link ) Personal sensors: seeing through engineered eyes (link) Developing US EdTech in International Markets ( link ) Opportunity vs. Did I miss some awesome proposal that deserves to be on this list? Comment below to let me know.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In that capacity, I co-founded the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Venture Capital Access Program, a joint venture with the National Association of Investment Companies (“NAIC”), which helps women and diverse entrepreneurs raise capital. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype. Are you politically active?

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