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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

In a year of fascinating conversations, a few stood out. One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy?

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

In a year of fascinating conversations, a few stood out. One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy?

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

In a year of fascinating conversations, a few stood out. One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? And why should these transactions cost the poor more than they cost the wealthy?

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Counting On ‘Social Capital’: The New Way To Evaluate Entrepreneurial Worth

YoungUpstarts

Even if we are fortunate enough to have the time to converse one-on-one, face-to-face, most of our interactions with each other have some element of digitization. For the last two years the company has been measuring and scoring the social capital of entrepreneurs in Kigali, Rwanda. The team at kountable believes it can.

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