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Three Megatrends That Will Affect Everybody’s Business

YoungUpstarts

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. Infrastructure will need to be redone and rethought, creating a lot of openings for building and technology innovators. Explosion in technology. .

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For tech to develop in emerging economies, the first obstacle is trust

The Next Web

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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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. Governments supportive of technology. We wanted to share some other trends we observed; Countries have startups that play to their strengths. Many female entrepreneurs.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

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. After investing in technology for over 20 years, I have never believed more strongly in the transformative power of connectivity.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

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. After investing in technology for over 20 years, I have never believed more strongly in the transformative power of connectivity.

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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

YoungUpstarts

With more than one-third of the world’s population unbanked and more and more people using mobile phones, there is an outstanding opportunity for mobile payment technology to bring the financially omitted into the economic majority. Mobile payment technology removes the need for direct access to a bank or credit union.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. 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.