YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Past “escapes” included managing a beach lodge in Mozambique, trekking across the Gobi desert, running a post office in Antarctica, or even clearing land mines in Cambodia. More fun that watching icons on your computer screens squiggle, for sure. “Ultimately I lost trust in the whole financial system.”

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

Right: Umesh, Founder of NEWAH. Almost half of its working-age population are unemployed, and the latest United Nations Human Development Index ranks Nepal at #144 out of 188 countries, coming in behind Cambodia (#143), Zambia (#139), and Iraq (#121). A hand-written contract is drawn up with every household listed as co-signers.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Related to that, my post on ‘ Lean Market Research ‘ was a summary of a talk I gave to entrepreneurship students at London Business School and is a good first step when you’re entertaining a startup idea as a founder or investor. Original ideas - did you ever have a thought come to you in the shower or while running?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I sat down with David Spandorfer , co-founder of Janji , a running apparel company, to talk about the intersection of an everyday need, water, and an act of physical activity that almost everyone can do, running. This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2013

Everyone from Cupertino to Cooperstown to Cambodia to China. Barely avoiding the California Penal League , Jobs quit Atari and sold his car while Woz sold his calculator and quit Hewlett-Packard ( HP rejected Woz’s Apple computer concept multiple times ). And the fans went wild. The first real tablet, with multi-touch display!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 12, 2016

I was joined by Michael and Marie, co-organizers of Techbikers over the past few years. 9 libraries established in India, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. 10 Literacy Instruction programmes implemented in South Africa, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. in this post I’d like to share the Impact with you. Closing the circle?—?Nepal,

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