The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS. We were surprised at how many female entrepreneurs pitched in the competition, particularly in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania. Many female entrepreneurs.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In Kenya, M-Pesa processed more transactions domestically than Western Union did globally, and “ provided mobile banking facilities to more than 70 per cent of the country’s adult population” , most of whom never had banking services before. What’s Next in 2012….

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The crowdSPRING creatives agreed to offer up their services on a voluntary basis to worthy non-profits and charitable groups at no cost to the organizations, while we agreed to waive all fees and assist in the setup and promotion of their projects. That’s part of why we launched our Give Back program back in 2008.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The crowdSPRING creatives agreed to offer up their services on a voluntary basis to worthy non-profits and charitable groups at no cost to the organizations, while we agreed to waive all fees and assist in the setup and promotion of their projects. That’s part of why we launched our Give Back program back in 2008.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The crowdSPRING creatives agreed to offer up their services on a voluntary basis to worthy non-profits and charitable groups at no cost to the organizations, while we agreed to waive all fees and assist in the setup and promotion of their projects. That’s part of why we launched our Give Back program back in 2008.

Community 48

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The consequences of being late or making critical mistakes tally up into the millions, yet McKinsey estimates that 90% of projects suffer cost overruns – and two thirds are at least 40% late. Construction is a trillion-dollar market, but planning remains complicated and inaccurate.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 12, 2012

Mining cellphone billing records – GigaOM describes a number of use cases for this data including helping with malaria education in Kenya. There is huge opportunity for IT enabled cost savings in healthcare delivery. Unsurprisingly this is where most of today’s hot big data companies are playing.

Haiti 104

Haiti Artificial Inteligence Kenya Social Media 104

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, many a BDC CEO has initiated a consultant to study cost cutting issues before announcing a significant layoff. Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. Negotiating (13). Networking (20). Parenting (4).

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The course, required for first-year undergrads in the College of Business, had about 600 students in it this fall.Among the ideas students came up with, Viswanathan said, were: — A low-cost refrigerator to preserve food. — A system to help shopkeepers with low literacy levels keep track of inventory. —

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). The downside is that this awesomeness comes at the cost of having to learn new things on top of my recommendation above.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2023

Private equity firm Alta Semper Capital has provided a financing injection of twenty million dollars to the e-health business MyDawa, which is based in Kenya. MyDawa has entered into agreements and formed partnerships with a number of different clinic chains in Kenya, making it simpler for those clinic chains to expand their operations.

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Kenya Artificial Inteligence Africa Technical Review 120

VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). The guy needed $100,000. I think the model needs to be different.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Do you know how much it cost 2 days of “holidays” for the company? 31) Opportunity Cost. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. #18) Better Person. Awareness is what makes a human different. When I was working in a company I was constantly not aware. 32) A Dream.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. Kristin Richmond and Kirsten Tobey have been working on fixing the problems with school food for more than a decade.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

That doesn’t include the fact that water costs are rising at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, and water shortages around the world. Life needs this basic resource to survive, and yet, most of us take it for granted. A big population of the planet, 783 million people , do not have access to clean and safe water. helping them.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Both Taiwan and Kenya have made agreements to exchange water technology and data revolving with Israel. And before a young cleantech startup goes international, they should strengthen their technology and limit waste in business development by keep travel and demonstration costs as efficient as possible. Freshwater is expensive.

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Brazil Kenya Taiwan 97

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

At first glance, mobile payments seem like a no brainer… consumers [seemingly] want the convenience of paying with a phone rather than cash or credit card, merchants dislike the cost associated with accepting credit cards, and mobile ecosystem players (e.g. I’ve been an interested observer of electronic payments for 12+ years.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |. Kiss of Death – Contract Provisions Entrepreneurs Should Avoid at All Costs 21 comment(s). DoubleClick’s Guerilla Marketing Legacy. |. 6 Comments. Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. |. No Comments. 2 Comments. 2 Comments. 4 Comments.

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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

Reid Hoffman

MAY 20, 2014

Take Erastus Kimani, a 73 year old schoolteacher turned entrepreneur, who lives in a remote part of Kenya without indoor plumbing, much less indoor banking. Imagine what it would cost a traditional bank to hire enough loan officers to match the network intelligence that millions of citizen lenders provide. Networks of Trust.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. According to a study by Viacom Media, 71% of millenials said they would rather visit the dentist than hear what banks have to say.

Disintermediation 58

Disintermediation United States Nigeria Kenya 58

thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. According to a study by Viacom Media, 71% of millenials said they would rather visit the dentist than hear what banks have to say.

Disintermediation 40

Disintermediation United States Nigeria Kenya 40

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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. And I think the key additional factor that I added to the conversation is, like nearly all decisions in life, this is a cost-benefit analysis.

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