YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations. Over the next five years, some African economies (Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania, just to name a few) are likely to grow as fast as, or faster, than some of the recent Asian champions.

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Mozambique Ethiopia Tanzania Bangladesh 100

The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In our experience international entrepreneurs need to work on being more confident in their pitches and succinctly communicating their idea, business model, market size and what problem they are going to solve. Anyone can have an idea but if you can’t get it out into the world or communicate it clearly it might as well not exist.

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Silicon Valley Tanzania Chile Rwanda 148

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. And I get to lead this effort in a world very different than the one I grew up in just a few decades ago.

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