YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

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. billion residents owning a smartphone, most analysts predict that India will continue to register strong demand for smartphones and is primed to the next China in terms of consumer demand.

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India Mobile SMS Tanzania 100

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)

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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

Babbling VC

APRIL 28, 2019

I couldn't care less whether you're in the office or working from Tanzania. What we do demand though is that people are flexible for us just as we are for them. At the same time, we want to be able to trust our teams blindly and let them learn by making mistakes if necessary. . We also don't adhere to conventional work environments.

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Hiring Tanzania Distribution Software 76

thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

I burst into tears and demanded to be taken back to the comfort of our suburban home in New Jersey (I can’t even imagine my exhausted parents’ dread of the upcoming month of travel with that attitude in tow).

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Tanzania New Jersey United States 40

thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

I burst into tears and demanded to be taken back to the comfort of our suburban home in New Jersey (I can’t even imagine my exhausted parents’ dread of the upcoming month of travel with that attitude in tow).

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Tanzania New Jersey United States 40