The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

In a stream of conscience verse reflecting his holistic thinking on the subject, John Paul outlined the numerous challenges facing the development of a tech. industry in Tanzania. Fast forward a few months and I’ve returned to my adopted country of Ecuador with the objective of helping to develop a thriving tech scene.

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Ecuador Tanzania Developer Silicon Valley 144

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

For many mature economies like Japan and the US, the workforce will be older, healthcare costs will be higher, and it looks like we will see diminishing pension benefits. Advances in 3-D printing will change the cost and efficiency of making a lot of products and even body parts or organs! Only time will tell. What can we do?

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Mozambique Ethiopia Tanzania Bangladesh 100

thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

As regular readers of my blog know, I was born in Nairobi and grew up visiting the developing world in the 1980s, after my family moved to the United States. My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Tanzania New Jersey United States 40

thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

As regular readers of my blog know, I was born in Nairobi and grew up visiting the developing world in the 1980s, after my family moved to the United States. My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Tanzania New Jersey United States 40

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

Microfinance institutions are able to offer more competitive loan rates to their users to take advantage of lower costs due to dealing in cash. In Kenya and Tanzania, over 25 million people use the M-Pesa mobile payments platform, operated by Safaricom and Vodacom, with money sent via text message. What are mobile payments?

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India Mobile SMS Tanzania 100

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible.

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South Korea Silicon Valley Sweden Italy 114