YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

Mobile marketing is big, and is set to grow bigger – but more so in emerging markets. “ The next billion ” will come from the emerging markets such as Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. The size of the global middle class is projected to increase from 1.8 billion people to 3.2

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Resource scarcity leads to innovation — as those of us who have lived and worked in the developing world are acutely aware. Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2012

Earlier this year, I commented during the launch of UOB’s mobile banking iOS application that mobile payment options such as that offered by Square would be a boon to small business owners. Mobile Payment Now A Reality For Singapore Small Business Owners. Today, Swiff is unique in its ability to do so.”

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

While today’s generation may be relatively prosperous, the country’s one child policy is beginning to take its toll; smaller numbers of the next generation will have to support a much more massive pool of aging citizens just like in the so-called developed countries. And this change will only continue to move quicker! What can we do?

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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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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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- 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. In the morning he’d leave with a full basket and then come back with an empty one.

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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. Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Hemafuse in action. and Indian companies.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

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. Globally, there are 2.5 Even in the United States, one in five households are underbanked.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The 40-hour event will provide an opportunity for four-member teams of developers, UI designers, and/or marketers to work on apps for BlackBerry® 10. Throughout the event, RIM will be sharing market insights tailored to the respective cities so developers can develop market-relevant as well as globally attractive apps.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

What they created transcended our concept of hospitality into a global culture that blends the digital and the physical, forges a vibrant sense of community between millions of husts and guests, and — as a business — inspires unprecedented loyalty. This summer, for example, I spoke in Singapore, Australia and South Africa.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

A recent aim for a water well in Africa was funded by sales of more than 300 sustainably-made, BPA-free water bottles. According to Paull Young, director of digital at charity:water, the organization ensures that 100 percent of money raised goes directly to fund water efforts, primarily in Africa and southeast Asia.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2015

More recently we’ve seen this play out with riots and public disturbances within advanced economies like the US, the UK and France and arguably on a global scale with widespread anti-American feelings in parts of Asia and Africa.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

And recently, Toms launched a new initiative to benefit gorilla habitats in Africa. Hudson writes a weekly personal newsletter to the more than 5,000 global employees to highlight what he cares about in work and life. It’s well known that this company gives a pair of shoes to someone in need for each pair sold. Les Schwab.

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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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

It's this side of East Africa this brief report is about and which brought me here, to the mobile revolution I had only read about, and to the IPO48 event with its great bunch of start-ups: Sponsor. M-SAVE : Is just the kind of concept you come across in "mostly mobile" countries that makes you think, "Yeah, we might also have that.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Over the past couple of years Berlin has attracted talented developers, designers, marketers and creative people from all across the globe. When we started our business, only a few global tech businesses were also located in Berlin – most famously SoundCloud. It’s now a global product, in US, Asia, Europe and Africa.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I recognized the challenges that the majority of the unemployed face in South Africa: a lack of finance, lack of frequent access to technology, education and language issues (English is not the first language of many in South Africa). Then I did a Tedx talk and became passionate about public speaking.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

It created awesome companies, but the army doesn’t do ecommerce, or much mobile, which are now the biggest growth engines in startups. We attract great global talent. Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS. My last investment is an enterprise company from Malaysia that went global from day one.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2015

PayPal 7x more likely to use product) – even if video isn’t wow and super developed, it adds value (but HOW you do it is much more important than IF you do it). Amy Africa: Selling on a 2” x 4”: Proven Techniques for Mobile Optimization. Navigation counts for 80 – 85% of mobile success. Averages lie.

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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

China is looking beyond natural resources; in Israel, Chinese companies are finding the technological advantage and innovative spirit that can help them compete in their domestic market and ultimately become dominant global players. Some statistics first: according to the OECD, the global middle class will grow from an estimated 1.8

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

If you ask me I would say things are changing and so fast, the reason I am able to write this article and have it shared with a global community gives me hope. No doubt Africa is fully embracing this digital revolution. Globalization has made it necessary to catch up and keep up to date on technology.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

More than a third of the global population has no access to traditional financial services. However, the vast majority of bankless adults live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and India. While many Indians are unbanked, mobile phone adoption is on the rise. What are mobile payments?

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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. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. DJVentureWire : Clinical Development News, Sept. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann.

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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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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. I know of no other way to achieve one's global maxima on the web. Three tools.

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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. What countrys GDP is the size of the global app economy? And on Google Inc.

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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. – Owletcare develops and manufactures a wearable baby monitor “smart sock” that monitors oxygen levels and heart rate and alerts parents in case of an emergency.

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