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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub.

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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

For example, Silicon Savannah – the name given to Nairobi’s (Kenya) growing tech scene – and Chilecon Valley, found in Chile’s capital, Santiago, demonstrate the global appetite for tech entrepreneurship. As access to the internet increases from the current 3.5

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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

NZ Entrepreneur

Angry that such a tragedy could have occurred – indeed possibly directly attributable – as a result of Jake’s endeavours in the name of this thing we call entrepreneurship. It also made me angry. Angry too that we were seemingly unable to prevent this tragic situation from occurring.

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MicroAid: Helping Entrepreneurs Rise Out of Poverty

Up and Running

A beneficiary named Fransiska stands with her children by their successful Microaid project growing and selling vegetables. ” One way they’ve improved the lives of members a community was to help solve the problem of fuel efficiency for cooking in a small town in Kenya.

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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

His name is Tomas Pueyo. I talk with people in Kenya, in Peru, in Mexico and in Bangladesh, and it is just so hard. And you look at an example like Kenya, for example. Kenya did not brush the curve, but in fact they've been pretty stable at a quite low number of cases, but the economic toll has been very, very heavy, right?

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. Joyce Wafukho, Kenya. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan. Marcelino Lopez, Colombia.

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