The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

This next level will also require that you work with government regulators. The government will not allow you to conduct your business without a license. Conduct your research and find what works best, for example many online casinos allow customers to deposit and withdraw via their mobile phone bill using a premium rate SMS service.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist. I hitchhiked around the country (the safest I’ve encountered) given the lack of public transport.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist. I hitchhiked around the country (the safest I’ve encountered) given the lack of public transport.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist. I hitchhiked around the country (the safest I’ve encountered) given the lack of public transport.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think so, please let me know what they are.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 16, 2014

Donors can contribute to a specific member through their web profile or SMS. It fits into Version One’s investment thesis that civic startups need to innovate and get traction outside of the current system (Boris earlier blogged about the opportunities to disrupt government earlier ).

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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. Many Africans don’t have bank accounts and use M-Pesa as a way to store money as well as paying for goods and services- it works like Google Wallet but via SMS instead of NFC.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2020

If customers aren’t receptive to email messages, try engaging them on a new platform, like social media, or SMS. SMS has become one of my favorite ways to engage prospects throughout the sales funnel. Once you have scheduled SMS texts in your pipeline, you can start developing other ways to engage prospects for unrivaled growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

This is still one of the best vehicles if your business has a small, well-defined purchasing audience as do government agencies or medical establishments. Compared with other methods, it does require the largest up-front investment, mostly for printing and shipping. Cold calling.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

One of the best people I know at figuring out business models that dovetail with impactful missions is Nancy Lublin, who was the founder/CEO of Dress For Success, the CEO of Do Something, and is currently the founder/CEO of Crisis Text Line, which provides anyone who needs it with crisis counseling via SMS messaging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

This is still one of the best vehicles if your business has a small, well-defined purchasing audience as do government agencies or medical establishments. Compared with other methods, it does require the largest up-front investment, mostly for printing and shipping. Cold calling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

They were mostly trying to reduce their risk factors, and they were hoping that the government, the public health departments, would actually take ownership of the response there. I think that another one was really kind of partnering with local governments on this part and trying to help them. It was not very accessible.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

To appreciate why economic and government leaders place such a high priority on 5G technology, here’s a look back at how 5G emerged from its 3G and 4G predecessors and the economic impact that each generation of wireless advances have had, along with a look forward at the impact 5G will have in the future. 3G: Opening Up the App Market.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Kik Chat had been a bit of a complicated service, offering both free SMS when a user’s phone was offline, and free Internet-based messages when they were online. The relaunched app dropped the SMS element, and focused entirely on Web-based messages using usernames not phone numbers. It was a hit. “It

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 17, 2021

Onaroll celebrates micro-wins through a SMS based service today directly with the people managing customers. The second is that it provides a set of principles in the room that govern decisions without having to disagree or have politics enter a decision. “Show me the incentive and ill show you the outcome.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

And they got really into the idea of wearing masks and within three days, the whole country had masks, within three days with no government support. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. A lot of them seemed to hate their government and they were annoyed that the government wasn't doing anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

This is still one of the best vehicles if your business has a small, well-defined purchasing audience as do government agencies or medical establishments. Compared with other methods, it does require the largest up-front investment, mostly for printing and shipping. Cold calling.

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Kodorra

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Most French government workers don’t speak English. You can get your embassy in Paris to translate it for you or find an authorized translator in the list of government authorized translators in France. Because they will send you a SMS notifying that your carte de sejour is ready for collection. No reason to be stressed.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. But this didn’t stop the Government having the courage back then to take it and put the industry in public hands. Government should just get out of the bloody way.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. NFC, SMS). Government fiat. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 9, 2011

GVoice has had a spam capability for some time now and the way it works is really straightforward… you can mark any call or SMS message as spam and future calls or texts will go in your spam filter. You can also go hardcore and block a number, in which case the caller hears a “not in service&# message.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. Oracle real Application Clusters, Qualys QualysGuard, SAP Business Objects Broadcast Scheduler, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

No investment is possible without that validation, whether it is government grants (and there is quite a bit of that available for clean energy projects) or angel or venture capital. It is not possible for financial investors to gauge the viability of this technology without some help from scientists and researchers.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 28, 2011

From now on, we’re going to be connecting right to direct sources ourselves—to government newsfeeds and to citizens broadcasting their own local experiences right from the scene—right to our TVs. Governments are getting online and making every piece of data they have into a feed. This is only the beginning.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Amos Spacecom.

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