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.
The Next Web
APRIL 27, 2013
industry in Tanzania. Riding the wave of global awareness for the need to stay competitive, Tanzania has taken some positive steps forwards, including government investments in a fibreoptic backbone as well as strategic initiatives around promoting start-ups. Marshall McLuhan wrote that “we shape our tools and then they shape us.”
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The Next Web
OCTOBER 15, 2012
In both Rwanda and Tanzania ministers for technology spoke about how they see technology as the future for their the economic wealth of their country. We were surprised at how many female entrepreneurs pitched in the competition, particularly in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania. Governments supportive of technology.
thebarefootvc
MAY 13, 2015
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. The hidden cost of this (and employee burnout) is one that any investor is all too familiar with.
thebarefootvc
MAY 13, 2015
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. The hidden cost of this (and employee burnout) is one that any investor is all too familiar with.
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?
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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