Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 1, 2022

Mikkel Thorup hosts The Expat Money Show podcast (I was on episode 155) and has spent over 21 years in continual travel around the world, visiting more than 100 countries including Colombia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Iran.

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Offshore North Korea Zimbabwe Colombia 98

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Inspired in Zimbabwe The founders of Zimride were inspired by drivers in Zimbabwe, who pick up strangers and give them a lift for a few bucks. "You can see their profile on Facebook, and you can kind of tell if theyre going to be a creeper or if you have nothing in common with them." The company is applying that principle in the U.S.

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 16, 2019

75% of the world’s platinum comes from South Africa, with the rest coming from Russia, Zimbabwe, Canada, and the US. Platinum is a rare metal and the cost of mining it is far higher than that of gold. Platinum is used in jewelry and for industrial applications.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 6, 2013

In Zimbabwe, hyperinflation drove the US Dollar became the de facto local currency even while foreign currency trading was illegal. Inflation, and hyperinflation, is one possible driver of Bitcoin adoption in a country. When holding the local fiat currency entails losing value by the day, citizens will seek alternatives.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Riddle me this: Why has Botswana, a landlocked country in the south of Africa, become one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations — Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone among them — remain caught in a miasma of violence and poverty? You might chalk it… This story continues at The Next Web.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 6, 2020

Those in countries that have previously experienced massive inflation (Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Argentina) or capital controls (China, India) have long seen relative value in an asset that is independent of government financial manipulation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Crowdspring’s 210,000+ designers from Australia to Zimbabwe, and everywhere in between, are standing by to help you. Answer a few questions about your design needs in crowdspring’s simple project questionnaire. The more you share, the better the results. Step 3: Crowdspring designers get to work creating dozens of designs.

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