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Counting On ‘Social Capital’: The New Way To Evaluate Entrepreneurial Worth

YoungUpstarts

Even if we are fortunate enough to have the time to converse one-on-one, face-to-face, most of our interactions with each other have some element of digitization. For the last two years the company has been measuring and scoring the social capital of entrepreneurs in Kigali, Rwanda. Building social capital has never been easier.

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The Gender Issue Part II

thebarefootvc

It is great to see that a conversation is finally evolving on the importance of gender diversity in the technology and venture capital sectors. On my trip to Rwanda last year I wrote a blog post on why I thought diversity in general was important.

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SXSW Startups: GoTech Puts Out Fires

Austin Startup

Based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as Rwanda, GoTech is resolved to develop, design and implement solutions to help communities respond to fire. It offers so much media coverage and exposure that will boost us. Ever since then, SXSW resurfaces in so many of my conversations.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? He wasn't a media star. Here's my conversation with Tomas Pueyo. Look, first of all, in these conversations, the number of times that the story begins on Twitter is remarkable. His name is Tomas Pueyo.