Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 120,000 members worldwide. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2019

With increased flexibility offered by smart mobile devices and wireless Internet connection, traders can achieve today more than they were able to in the past. Traders can now monitor currency prices and changes in pip regardless of their location, as long as they have a decent Internet connection.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? [11:53] That even though everyone in South Africa said to us, you're mad, what are you doing going to America for a sales app? Let's go back to South Africa. How do I leverage the power of, let's say the internet? Can I do more with this?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Third Mainland Bridge is one of three bridges that connect Lagos’ Victoria Island with the ‘mainland’ and is the longest bridge in Africa. With a population estimated at between 21 and 23 million people, every month another 50,000 people converge from across Africa to live in the city. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post. With the advent of the internet, every opportunity is global, since every customer can see you from anywhere in the world.

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Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Africa is a huge and diverse continent, and over the last few years, it has emerged as one of the world’s hotspots for startups. In Africa, entrepreneurs have serious, intractable problems that western startups don’t face. by Sharon Fishburne. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Being a digital marketing company, our world is being constantly changed by the changes happening in the world of the internet. If you’re in the industry that leverages the internet, technology can only of great help to you. #5- Shorten page load time and enhance user experience. Photo credit: Avinash Chandra.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

There will be big growth in the world but it will be elsewhere in countries like India or in Africa , where there will also be some big opportunities. The internet of everything is on its way. Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard– which stands for “My Internet Identity”– is an identify verification service using your email address, your mobile phone, and your online banking account to prove you are actually you. miiCard is like flashing your driver’s license or passport on the internet.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

My purpose was primarily learning about the internet and how to build a business. But it wasn’t until I was in Africa several years ago that I was inspired by the people I met there to follow my own dreams – and start a new business. The internet houses millions of websites, but most are just stacked up without adding any value.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8 trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Despite the advancement of women’s rights around the world – such as women’s suffrage and better education opportunities – women continue to suffer discrimination as compared to men, whether it is at the workplace , or having access to vital services such as the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 50 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 60,000 members worldwide. Or does it? I’ll come back to that later.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Wonga, the well known short term lender, is being used as the front for an email and SMS phishing scam perpetrated by a gang on internet fraudsters. The scam has been targeting consumers in South Africa, a country where online consumers face a high risk of internet fraud , for the past year. How to identify the scam.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

But the three standout countries in terms of ambition are United Arab Emirates (95-percent), South Africa (85-percent) and India (81-percent). We know that the Millennials are defined by their love for and use of technology, but how much do they really embrace the Internet and their devices? Technology rules their lives.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 23, 2014

Less than two years later, it became the first startup from Africa to receive funding from 500 Startups. The service solves a universal problem for companies but it happens that it was built in Ghana, where the internet penetration rate is just 40 percent. As of 2013, Dropifi had over 6,000 paying customers in 30 countries worldwide.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. Thanks to Chris Wain, Africa Travel ! #4- Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. Thanks to Dave Davies, Beanstalk Internet Marketing ! #27-

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This environment allowed Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, to build a modern day conglomerate: an Internet platform providing commerce, entertainment and financial services to a middle class that numbers over 300 million (and expected to reach nearly 1 billion in the next 20 years).

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

While we live in a widely connected world with affordable Internet data, up to 15 percent of U.S For instance, a number of maps and navigational apps feature an offline mode, which only uses the phone’s in-built GPS system, rather than internet data, for instance, the Maps.me Do you think people will use your product offline?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

What’s different this time around (as opposed to the tech bubble of the late 1990s) is the widespread use of technology, “digital natives” (millennials who grew up with the Internet and mobile phones) coming of age, and a cultural shift towards self-employment and risk taking (again, powered by stark economic realities).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

If knowledge is power then every entrepreneurial startup should succeed because the information needed to do so is almost in plain sight, out there on the Internet. The UAE is also a gateway to the hundreds of millions of people making up the diverse populations of the Middle East and North Africa region.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Jeff Bezos revolutionized the world of e-commerce with the launch of Amazon, now one of the most popular mass Internet retailers today. What began as a simple tech blog quickly emerged as one of the leading Internet publications — impacting practically every facet of technology and business. Jeff Bezos, Amazon Innovator.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. So from 95%+ U.S.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This environment allowed Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, to build a modern day conglomerate: an Internet platform providing commerce, entertainment and financial services to a middle class that numbers over 300 million (and expected to reach nearly 1 billion in the next 20 years).

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2015

More recently we’ve seen this play out with riots and public disturbances within advanced economies like the US, the UK and France and arguably on a global scale with widespread anti-American feelings in parts of Asia and Africa.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Between our long life expectancies , medical breakthroughs , and the everyday miracles of things like the internet, digital photography, and air travel, we are living lives that would have seemed like a dream to people growing up just a few generations ago. Mall for Africa. Europe and Africa, and the consumers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. (Unless it’s a high-end supercomputer with a computing capacity of 10 000 regular PCs.)

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

Early internet technology was groundbreaking, but decentralized currency is truly revolutionary. Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, argues that blockchain offers particular value in parts of the world where people can’t yet trust their institutions — places such as Africa, India, and Eastern Europe.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

I mean, 85% of millennials, for example, are now on a smartphone, and we’ve seen internet access grown around the world. He lived in the middle of Africa in a pretty rural place. He’d spend all of his money that he raised on an hour’s worth of internet access. And he’d contribute to this project, Ubuntu.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The thing Kelly did was send out a request to the internets asking for “100 word descriptions of a plausible future 100 years from now that he would like to live in” He said he would give $100 to the best one he received. Robots takeover remaining blue-collar jobs in Asia and Africa. All humans always on the net anywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2015

There are plenty of other examples on the internet as well. A systems engineer from India is often no better than one from Africa, however, preexisting stereotypes will work to the advantage of the former. Stereotypes are always a challenge.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach. Africa ahead in mobile. In Africa in particular governments are very involved in promoting technology and see it as a future industry that will kick start the economy.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

When he hit on the idea of selling clean water, a scarce commodity in Africa, he could barely afford the fees to power his tank. The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Reuben Mpunda, Tanzania.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

The fact that the Internet and remote work apps are finally fast and robust enough that near-seamless remote collaboration is possible. The internet itself, and most particularly last-mile connectivity, would not have supported the sudden global shift. Many people are more productive working from home. What Solves the Problems?

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8 trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Well, in our rather cushy modern world danger could be like, I, I can't go a day without high speed internet. You know, like if you watch, how, how people get spun out about traffic or not have having internet, like I said, are not having their favorite, whatever. What does it mean to be dangerous? I can't go right.

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