thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

The ingenuity of a rural farmer in Africa is on par with some of the greatest innovation I’ve seen in the heart of Silicon Valley, particularly in light of the lack of “formal” training and mentorship many of us experience in the developed world. Starbucks has also built successful retail mobile payment experience, albeit a closed loop one.

Africa 40

Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

There will be big growth in the world but it will be elsewhere in countries like India or in Africa , where there will also be some big opportunities. One example of how fast we have been speeding up is that the number of mobile web users is growing eight times faster today than the number of people getting on desktops in the mid-1990s.

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Mozambique Ethiopia Tanzania Bangladesh 100

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Because ooomf is a vetted network of mobile and Web independent professionals where the professionals pick their work, we thought one of the strongest parts of our presentation was the opportunity in our market. Image credit: Shutterstock / Africa Studio. What does this market look like? Is it growing? Business Model?—?How

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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. It also streamlines your web experience. It provides a safer, faster and more convenient way to transact online.

Small Business 75

Small Business South Africa North America New Zealand 75

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. They start restaurants to create and share beautiful food, service, and atmosphere.

Africa 98

Africa Public Relations Web Development Mobile 98

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Third Mainland Bridge is one of three bridges that connect Lagos’ Victoria Island with the ‘mainland’ and is the longest bridge in Africa. With a population estimated at between 21 and 23 million people, every month another 50,000 people converge from across Africa to live in the city. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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Nigeria Africa Reputation Email 148

thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Next Web Blog. Part of The Next Web family. Murdochs Sun newspaper reportedly shuns paywall in favor of paid mobile apps and ads. Copyright 2011 The Next Web. login / register. Conference. tips@thenextweb.com. -->. Social Media. Energy Goes Social On Facebook. Grammy CMO spells out social media savvy. All Stories.

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Social Media Stealth India Startup 67

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Technology is a booming industry, with Web 2.0, mobile applications, and software creating major opportunities for business leaders. Today, Amazon competes with media brands for movie and digital media sales, such as e-books and digital movie downloads, which are becoming even more popular as mobile usage is on the rise.

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Technology Cofounder Social Media Africa 169

The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

With Safari Yetu, you pay online or via mobile, receive an SMS reservation or ticket and go to the bus station once; the day you are traveling. Africa ahead in mobile. In Africa in particular governments are very involved in promoting technology and see it as a future industry that will kick start the economy.

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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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Dominican Republic Africa Malawi Product 155

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Pashash is the first mobile app funded by the Google Umbono incubator and it is named after the South African slang for something that is considered “cool”. Over 100 startups applied for Africa and eleven were chosen to compete in the Cape Town final held at Frieda’s on Bree. The service is a mixture of Instagram and Pinterest.

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Africa Incubator Startup 116

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Next Taha Jiwaji of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, gave us an interesting snapshot of some opportunities opening up in Africa. an advertising and mobile services company that has subscribers and vendors as customers. Since two of the vendors so far are mobile/computer electronics businesses, that is where he should focus to start.

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Tanzania Africa Entrepreneur Startup 128

Jason Ball

MAY 22, 2008

Right after the mobile world congress this year, I posted that this was definitely the Year of the Browser. Opera have just released some pretty interesting stats on mobile web usage for Q1 2008 through the Opera mini browser: Social networking stands supreme. One Web will triumph over WAP content. Content on WAP and.

Web 28

Web South Africa Indonesia Africa 28

The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2017

Paparide Network is a one-of- a-kind sharing platform that offers four complementary services that are reinventing mobility as we know it. They provide everything you need for your next ride using a state of the art web and mobile platforms. What is the Paparide Network, and how does it work? .

Networking 60

Networking Cofounder Africa Mobile 60

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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Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

I am sure you have seen the news all over the web and Techmeme about Microsoft’s purchase of TellMe, which is rumored to be around $800mm. If you look at the number of internet-capable mobile phones, PDAs and so on, they are rapidly outnumbering the things we think of as computers,” he says. “As

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North America Semantic Africa Acquisition 60

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).

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Entrepreneur South Africa PR Thailand 128

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design – [link]. 1000+ Free Web 2.0 Time-Saving and Educational Resources for Web Designers – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

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. When I came to Berlin the trending topics were all ecommerce, communities and software-as-a-service, and it then became social, mobile and cloud.

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San Francisco Cofounder Germany Europe 125

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

What is the first thing you want when you think about web analytics? recommending tools for the complete web analytics 2.0 Web Analytics 2.0. This blog post is about web analytics 2.0. As defined in my second book Web Analytics 2.0 The quest for a "single source of the truth" on the web is futile.

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Analytics Web Non-Compete Campaign 135

www.netmagazine.com

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

We reveal the top 50 books for web designers and developers. Master mobile navigation. This article first appeared in issue 232 of.net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. US Airways’ mobile site’s traditional approach. Interviews. Advertisement.

Mobile 68

Mobile Web Software Review South Africa 68

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

16 trillion hours of business Web conferencing – Equivalent to about 12 hours of daily Web conferencing for the world’s workforce in 2016. Only around 1 7-percent is really fueled by end users accessing clouds for Web surfing, emailing and video streaming. To give you an idea how big 6.6

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

If you are a totally new site with zero web presence what can you do to even get people there? I do like Obama, being the seed of a Muslim (my native country-sake – Africa). Have an account? We’ve had a few thousand unique views and almost 200 sign ups already!

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Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2015

Here’s what Andre Morys, CEO of Web Arts thought: Honestly: #cxllive is the best conference I’ve attended – ever – thank you to @peeplaja for everything! André Morys Web Arts (@morys) March 12, 2015. Amy Africa: Selling on a 2” x 4”: Proven Techniques for Mobile Optimization. So how did it go?

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Analytics Texas Conversion Mobile 48

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

The principal drivers of this re-imagination are the hyper-growth of the mobile Internet, consumer-controlled commerce, the rise of big data, and “globality.” And now we have made the largest cycle of all – the move to mobile Internet computing. Mobile commerce is up 552% in one year (measuring cyber-Mondays).

Mobile 62

Mobile Africa Software Review Technical Review 62

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

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. Whereas the portal portion refers to some of the products that we build (web portals). I also play guitar in a mom band called Mamadrama out of Asbury Park, NJ.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

The Next Web. Part of The Next Web family. Obviously the real work of building a startup happens after a program, and for TextPayMe (a mobile payment system) this was where the wild ride really began. “We TNW Conference. Were hiring. Twitter Now Available In Basque, Czech and Greek. Twissues: Search and Archive all Your Tweets.

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Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70

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. Web Design/Tech Services. WSJ Web Slice. LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Software. -

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Nearly all of that growth will occur outside Europe and North America, from Brazil, China, and India to countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Eighty-five percent of the growth will come in the Asia-Pacific region alone, and most of it will be in China.

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Intellectual Property China IP 143

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?

India 100

India Mobile SMS Tanzania 100

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.

Balance Sheet 90

Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

A Showcase of Beautiful Typography in Web Design – [link]. A Collection of “Coming Soon” Web Pages – [link]. 50 Beautiful Clean and Simple Web Designs – [link]. Content is Effective Web Design – [link]. people, 5B cell phones – [link] it’s a mobile world after all.

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

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 89

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

link ) The Big Idea: Cracking the Code on Chronic Absence ( link ) Misc Low Cost/For Profit — Private Education in Africa ( link ) The Invisible Million: Homeless Students in the US ( link ) How Well Do We Know Our Kids?

Analytics 59

Analytics Retention Africa Artificial Inteligence 59

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. But I promise to elaborate another day.

Video 150

Video South Africa Naming Kuwait 150

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. Opinion: Best of the Web Today: Follow the Minnie. Boosts War Role in Africa.

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Software Review Technical Review Advertising Naming 45