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From email scams to e-commerce wins: How online shopping is helping Nigeria fix its Internet reputation

The Next Web

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. Nigeria itself is home to 170 million people, a figure that is expected to rise to 400 million by 2050, and the biggest market in Africa. Then, there’s the infamous email scams of which Nigeria is most widely known.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, when your company adds ano ther blade to its disposal razors , the product’s technical development, marketing and sales will follow relatively predictable paths. Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. George Bilbrey gave insight on using the methods on a sales team. in ten years?

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

thebarefootvc

Startup accelerators modeled after YCombinator and Techstars sprouted up from NYC to Nigeria to New Delhi, spawning hundreds of new startups worldwide. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. And Beyond….

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Resources for Global Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

Is it a sales pitch or an opinion? So, if you were the founder of a green energy startup in Sydney, Australia, you would Google “green energy business incubator in Sydney, Australia.”. At Bplans, we believe founders know their businesses best. The first search engine result that is not an ad appears promising: EnergyLab.

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10 Entertaining Things to Check out While You’re Waiting in Line Today

Up and Running

billion in retail sales and even more the year before. Julie Krafchick, the founder of 500 Brunches , a Bay Area startup that was founded two months ago, told the San Francisco Weekly that her idea was a solution to a problem. Last year, Thanksgiving weekend saw 54.7 500 Brunches, or basically friendship dating .