VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

Google Corporate Development – Google may sometimes invest in a company from the balance sheet. This most likely involves a combination of an operational team (cloud, enterprise, commerce, etc) and the corporate development team, led by Don Harrison. This program is mainly led by the Developer Relations team. Open for all.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

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. In most of these countries, credit cards and traditional banking systems have not yet taken hold, making mobile money the only alternative to carrying cash (often in dangerous cities) and expending time to deliver cash.

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David Cohen

MAY 16, 2014

Technology is changing lives — even saving lives — in Africa, the world’s second most populous continent. In Rwanda, for example, where electricity is available to less than a quarter of the population, more than 60 percent of people now have access to mobile phones. It’s great stuff.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

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. India has about 200 million mobile subscribers and is adding 5 million new users monthly. What are mobile payments?

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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.

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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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Africa Tanzania San Francisco Silicon Valley 141

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. Joseph Mucheru East Africa Lead at Google.

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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. In tandem with such growing wealth will be telecommunications infrastructure, and mobile adoption.

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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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Singapore Mobile South Africa South America 203

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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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.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review Cofounder 102

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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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2017

Mobile technology, in particular, has made the casino business much more pronounced by bringing the niche to a much wider market segment. However, mobile technology has popularised the industry by making gaming platforms accessible to many, while retaining the adventurous and enjoyment factors.

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Mobile Technology Africa Asia 68

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. Lead photo courtesy of Shutterstock.

Africa 78

Africa Tanzania San Francisco Silicon Valley 78

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. In most of these countries, credit cards and traditional banking systems have not yet taken hold, making mobile money the only alternative to carrying cash (often in dangerous cities) and expending time to deliver cash.

Africa 40

Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They start creative agencies - graphic design, public relation, web development firms, and the like to leverage their business and creative talent to its most effective end. And they start drug development and medical device companies to help people live longer, healthier lives.

Africa 81

Africa Public Relations Web Development Mobile 81

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.

Africa 60

Africa Tanzania San Francisco Silicon Valley 60

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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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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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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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. Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS. Singapore is a developed country, and we’re right smack in the middle of developing countries.

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Pakistan Community Bulgaria 113

Growthink Blog

MARCH 7, 2011

They start creative agencies – graphic design, public relation, web development firms, and the like to leverage their business and creative talent to its most effective end. And they start drug development and medical device companies to help people live longer, healthier lives.

Africa 98

Africa Public Relations Web Development Mobile 98

VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

B efore we literally kick off the first ball in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, below is a collection of interesting links on Israeli startups and more for the week of June 11th: Interesting startups of the week. Jivy specializes in web development for the gaming and trading industries.

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South Africa Product Incubator 90

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. Image credit: Shutterstock / Africa Studio. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing over on the ooomf blog. What does this market look like? Is it growing? Business Model?—?How

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Africa Cofounder Software Review Conversion 157

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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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Our work spans everything from technology strategy and needs analysis to systems development and ongoing maintenance. Clients rely on us for all types of solutions, including in the areas of analytics, mobile, case management, and overall business process transformation. We help clients with their most complex business challenges.

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Louisiana Founder Virgin Islands South Africa 137

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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Small Business South Africa North America New Zealand 75

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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. He speculated that upwardly mobile college graduates could be interested in a product or service that was superior to 7-11.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 97

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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Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60

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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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Conceived in 1987 by Motorola and spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mobile telephone system that would work anywhere on earth. It would cover every city, town and square inch of the earth from ships in the middle of the Arctic Ocean to the jungles of Africa to the remote mountain peaks of the Himalayas.

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 6, 2013

Africa presents another example of adoption of a digital currency, or at least a digital form of payments. M-PESA, a payments system enabled on mobile phones, now constitutes 31% of Kenya’s GDP. This can be especially severe when most transactions are small. What do you think ?

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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. The camera of the iPhone and the invention of photo filters on mobile phones solved this problem. Again, the mobile phone and Instagram’s smart uploading process solved this problem.

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San Francisco Cofounder Germany Europe 125

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.

Entrepreneur 128

Entrepreneur South Africa PR Thailand 128

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.

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

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. 15- Help people in Africa get access to clean water. I worked with the local Small Business Development Center to put a business plan together but then sat on it for a while. Thanks to Tana M.

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Namibia Malawi Africa 108

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that new generations of young, tech-savvy investors and dreamers have taken to heart the potential of blockchain technology – and at times have made both significant academic and financial developments that have overshadowed the achievements of more seasoned or older figures. Vitalik Buterin.

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Africa Forecast .Net Technology 145