VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

To achieve the trifecta of startup success (money, talent, ideas), a vibrant startup community can make the difference between success and failure. It created awesome companies, but the army doesn’t do ecommerce, or much mobile, which are now the biggest growth engines in startups. They were sporadic.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. Johnni Kjelsgaard is one of the world’s most enthusiastic proponents of Africa’s entrepreneurial potential. The next step would be to secure funding.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 3, 2021

He is also the most engaged business leader on Facebook in Africa. He has the creativity to develop innovative transportation solutions, whether on earth or in space, and the intelligence to create plans to actually make them work. His innovative ideas about home computers and mobiles changed the market forever. 2- Jeff Bezos.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities.

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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. by Sharon Fishburne. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

– SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. Clients typically use it to create and strengthen local community initiatives: bake sales, barbeques, political organizing, etc. .

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

BMW introduced subscription fees for their cars, creating revolutionary changes in the conservative automotive community. Since then, Adidas has developed into a world whole recognized for its premium athletic attire. The Fat Sheep project in South Africa's barren Karoo landscape is my favorite turnaround story.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

You can find the Part 1, Dream Big and Start Small , Work to Learn, Not Earn , and Join the Community , here. Over the past couple of years Berlin has attracted talented developers, designers, marketers and creative people from all across the globe. Again, the mobile phone and Instagram’s smart uploading process solved this problem.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Small Business Spotlight – company that broadcasts content to > 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa – [link]. people, 5B cell phones – [link] it’s a mobile world after all.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Michelli reveals the secrets and strategies that fueled Airbnb’s meteoric rise in his new book, “ The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging “ As he shows, Airbnb’s founders harnessed the power of design thinking and a firm belief in providing exceptional customer experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

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. The customer development theory was an eye opener and gave us the final push to launch this venture.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. All The Cheat Sheets That A Web Developer Needs – [link]. Good to see innovation in delivering internet access to Africa (using voice control) – [link]. 1000+ Free Web 2.0

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard– which stands for “My Internet Identity”– is an identify verification service using your email address, your mobile phone, and your online banking account to prove you are actually you. miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. Right now, across parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, people are literally using a kitchen soup ladle and cheesecloth to salvage blood,” says Carolyn Yarina of Sisu Global Health , creator of Hemafuse. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone. Thanks to Ryan O’Connor, One Tribe Apparel ! #11

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

We saw an opportunity and set up our business a few days later with just a laptop and 2 mobile phones. It has opened the door to youth sports for kids in my community as well as eliminate the theft that occurs in youth sports that aren’t being monitored. 15- Help people in Africa get access to clean water.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

8 years later, it is clear that the prediction of the influential publication has, to some extent, come true: it is hard to imagine modern life in developed or developing countries without collaborative consumption. In 2010, the Time magazine listed the sharing economy among the 10 ideas that would change the world.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

Android devices, a version of the mobile app costs $5.99. Using a wealth of data from mobile devices, developers of apps ranging from childrens games to fitness trackers are increasingly testing an array of price points and business models. Many developers continue to change prices for their apps after they launch.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Make A (Smart) Game Of It Subjot , the brainchild of game developer Chris Carella, turned its coming soon page into a social game using a feature available on LaunchRock. We are a startup social media dashboard in development, but have amassed over 5000 followers pre-beta. Very interesting product under development at Personify.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. DJVentureWire : Clinical Development News, Sept. Journal Community. Journal Community. A community of WSJ readers interested in franchising news, trends and issues. Journal Community.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2017

However, even in a city like New-York where all transportation solutions are well-developed, there are still more than 2 million vehicles on the road each day. Paparide Network is a one-of- a-kind sharing platform that offers four complementary services that are reinventing mobility as we know it.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

link ) Growing an Engaged Education Innovation Community ( link ) So Quiet : Engaging the Silent Student ( link ) The Breakthrough of Drone Education ( link ) Email is Dead: Connecting with Today’s Students ( link ) The Student Sleep Debt Crisis: How We Can Help ( link ) Is a PhD or EdD Right for Me?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

And recently, Toms launched a new initiative to benefit gorilla habitats in Africa. This organization puts its money where its mouth is by conducting ongoing self-development and personal growth courses for its employees, and providing an electronic library full of leadership and personal growth books. Les Schwab.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

. “The affirmation reflects the resumption of the downward trend in public deficits and debt, the robust outlook for Israeli growth, and a strengthening in the sovereign’s external balance sheet,&# said Purvi Harlalka, director at Fitch’s Middle East and Africa Sovereign Ratings Group. AMDOCS TO AQCUIRE CANADIAN BRIDGEWATER.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

Since 2011, Kimberly has helped Black Girl CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international non-profit organization with chapters in 7 US cities and Johannesburg, South Africa serving over 2000 African/African-American, Latina, and Native American girls.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Move from a data collection obsession and develop a crush on data analysys. Percent Mobile. Most web analytics tools (including all the ones mentioned above) provide not great data about consumption of your website on mobile devices. You can get public feedback from their community of professionals (currently 8,000).

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