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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? [11:53] That even though everyone in South Africa said to us, you're mad, what are you doing going to America for a sales app? Let's go back to South Africa. 08:58] You talk about superpowers and finding your superpower.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC).

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Memories of an Unconnected Era: Searching for Sugar Man

Both Sides of the Table

I was connecting to online communities as a teenager on a 9,600 baud modem which is considerably slower than you can even imagine connecting today. Somehow he became popular in South Africa – with popularity approaching something like that of the Beatles. And he had never known of his success in South Africa.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Mark Zuckerberg’s journey started when he created a message program ‘ ZuckNet’ at the age of twelve, CourseMatch and FaceMash in college, and finally the world-famous social networking platform ‘Facebook’ which revolutionized communication, followed by taking over WhatsApp and Instagram. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

Instead of countless usernames and passwords, you have one identity to use for a variety of activities you want guaranteed security: online shopping, social networking, online dating, and online financials. miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

If your business doesn’t work out, you can go back to the drawing board, refinance, use tech solutions and networks to help you change tack. In Africa if you take a risk and it goes wrong it can have a far greater impact on you, your employees and community. In some countries, failure is a big psychological problem.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It began as a network that brought physical copies of newspapers to travelers abroad. 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. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. Image Credit: Saleem Jaffer.