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How many cofounders should your startup have?

The Next Web

A couple years in, I got married and left on my honeymoon for two weeks to Kenya – where I had no email or phone connectivity much of the time. It’s easier to take that vacation when you know someone will be at the office that will care the way you do and share your goals.

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Beware The Consultant

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John Greathouse has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, spearheading transactions, which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition. Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |.

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

Occam's Razor

According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). The team at Google has done a great job of having the end-to-end view there across Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes. Thank you.

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MyDawa: Revolutionizing Healthcare with AI

ReadWriteStart

Private equity firm Alta Semper Capital has provided a financing injection of twenty million dollars to the e-health business MyDawa, which is based in Kenya. MyDawa has entered into agreements and formed partnerships with a number of different clinic chains in Kenya, making it simpler for those clinic chains to expand their operations.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts.

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

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John has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, spearheading transactions, which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition. Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |.

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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

One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. And you need to look at the data very critically, because the other side of the merger or acquisition is actually trying to frame all the information in a way that is beneficial to that side and against your side. And you look at an example like Kenya, for example.