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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

His every move and misstep dissected and castigated by the same media and investors who sang his praises when things were going well, one can only guess at the anguish, shame and embarrassment that led the young entrepreneur into – what appeared to me as an uninformed observer – self imposed exile, in Kenya.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. Note to self, this event is not for alpha products with no customers. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. The crowd turnout was pretty good and the event was well organized with plenty of food and drinks.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. Note to self, this event is not for alpha products with no customers. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. The crowd turnout was pretty good and the event was well organized with plenty of food and drinks.

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Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to!

Occam's Razor

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. This will just give you the standard tagging.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

2) Help Others & Improve Upon Customer Service. I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. I heard horror stories about how their technicians had chips on their shoulders, belittling customers with their elitist attitudes. That’s it.

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). We don’t care about short term revenue.

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