thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Resource scarcity leads to innovation — as those of us who have lived and worked in the developing world are acutely aware. While credit was relatively easy to obtain in the developed markets for much of the last 20 years, the 2008 economic crisis made it more difficult for even the middle class and small businesses to obtain loans.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

For those living in extreme poverty in developing nations, even the most entrepreneurial people face innate challenges. Beresford and Wardana note that with the right business idea, a poor entrepreneur in a developing country “can increase their family income and eradicate poverty themselves.”

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

His every move and misstep dissected and castigated by the same media and investors who sang his praises when things were going well, one can only guess at the anguish, shame and embarrassment that led the young entrepreneur into – what appeared to me as an uninformed observer – self imposed exile, in Kenya.

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David Cohen

MAY 16, 2014

In the first segment, Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa are featured: African entrepreneurship has really been moving forward for some time now. A while back I invested in a company called Mobius Motors , which is based in Kenya. Here’s a second segment about Kenya’s mobile money revolution. It’s great stuff.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 10, 2017

Some of the countries with faster internet include Kenya, Lithuania, Slovenia, Moldova and many developing economies. I mean, sure we are connected to it, but we aren’t even in the top 50 countries for internet speeds. That’s a total travesty for our economic future. This is the modern.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

One only needs to look at the example of M-Pesa in Kenya to see how digital currency can impact the underserved. Then I met the Blockstream team with their vision for sidechains , to create a more robust and scaleable blockchain infrastructure which would enable these new applications and services to be developed and tested.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Steve has just graduated from Daystar University in Kenya. Marketing entry jobs are not well paid, but I need to develop my skills and build a network. " Each year thousands of students in Kenya and Nigeria are graduating from the Universities. Wanjiru, a Java Developer says: "It is so easy. Not necessarily.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 6, 2013

M-PESA, a payments system enabled on mobile phones, now constitutes 31% of Kenya’s GDP. Africa presents another example of adoption of a digital currency, or at least a digital form of payments.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. It has fast-developing infrastructure. Operating as an accelerator, starting in September it will recruit two classes of five startups per year.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Resource scarcity leads to innovation — as those of us who have lived and worked in the developing world are acutely aware. While credit was relatively easy to obtain in the developed markets for much of the last 20 years, the 2008 economic crisis made it more difficult for even the middle class and small businesses to obtain loans.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 13, 2016

A good example from the developing world is the Mpesa mobile money transfer that has revolutionized the way people in Kenya do their daily business. However, Mpesa has its limitations with major challenge being that it is only very popular in the developing world and it has not been fully embraced in our developed countries.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

First one for Swedish Trade Council in Nairobi, Kenya was to learn and start from the very bottom. Our goal is to create 1,000 developers by 2020. Is this an approach you would recommend to others as a means of breaking through in a difficult job market? Why or why not, and would you do it again?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. It has fast-developing infrastructure. Operating as an accelerator, starting in September it will recruit two classes of five startups per year.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. It has fast-developing infrastructure. Operating as an accelerator, starting in September it will recruit two classes of five startups per year.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. and Indian companies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

In many developing nations, sanitation systems are in a woeful state at best and entirely absent at worst, particularly in more remote areas. “In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

In many developing nations, sanitation systems are in a woeful state at best and entirely absent at worst, particularly in more remote areas. “In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

In many developing nations, sanitation systems are in a woeful state at best and entirely absent at worst, particularly in more remote areas. “In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Together with their startup team, Maha and David are applying their unique experiences as project and corporate development leaders to transform the design and construction of much needed global healthcare facilities. This entails deploying a DevOps model in our first year of development. But we’re learning to adapt!

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2012

New commitments announced at the two-day meeting include an expansion of Code the Change, a project of Stanford University student Sam King that hosts Code Jams in which computer science students provide up to twenty-four hours of pro bono volunteer services for nonprofit projects; the development, by Duke University student Patrick Oathout, of Uhuru, (..)

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

While celebrating such events is good fun in its own right, Women’s Entrepreneurship Day has the potential to change the lives of about 812 million women living in developing countries, each of whom has the potential to contribute to their communities and economies in some way.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 20, 2015

The business also helps to provide education to disadvantaged women and girls in the developing world whilst positively impacting the environment through using sustainable materials in its products and production methods. In Lauren’s case, her business runs as a for-profit enterprise. Thus began a life changing experience of overseas travel.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |. Any function within your startup that involves iterative learning, passion and/or close proximity to your customers should not be outsourced. Negotiating (13).

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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). You can track mobile websites just fine with your standard web analytics tool. You have many choices. Free or paid.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

Investing in microfinance: Impact investors have invested in microfinance institutions that are providing loans to small businesses and entrepreneurs in developing countries. For example, the Bridgespan Group has invested in an education initiative in Kenya that is helping to improve the reading skills of primary school students.

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Transformify

JULY 21, 2019

Children, regardless of their abilities or medical conditions, shall be encouraged to develop their skills and excel in what they are good at. In 2006, I volunteered in an orphanage in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya. It’s the willingness to learn, develop and be part of the team that does. About the author.

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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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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I have faced, and continue to face, many challenges along the way—evolving from an editor to a business owner, developing a memorable brand, finding great talent, to name a few. As a service-oriented company, we thrive on how we treat people and so far, we have been reaping the rewards of developing our people and satisfying our customers.

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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). Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 12, 2017

Seed” gives the audience a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation to give a pitch to investors, as well as the intense hours and dedication that developers and coding experts sacrifice to make their companies succeed. Teammates Ahmed and Shaher developed a courier service that would be launched in Palestine.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2011

The first project they’re engaged in is installing fuel-efficient cookstoves in Kenya. This way, it gets around the needs of traditional philanthropic models which require donors to continuously contribute financial resources to a cause.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Their process involved a gallery of dozens of talks with potential clients, represented by a photo of the business owner and the corresponding wireframe they jointly developed. What was most amazing about them: They met Friday evening, developed the idea, started working on it during the night and by Saturday at 9:00 a.m.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

How quickly can we develop new ways of working on things? In our case, we didn't provide lunches at this school, so coming to school with a healthy lunch. Plus, we have the whole foundation that we've built over the last decade and a half. So how can we use this platform?

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Virtually every mobile payments system in the developed world (see note #3) just piggybacks off the credit card system. Systems like M-Pesa (see note #3 below) took off because in developing nations prepaid wireless minutes were a parallel currency, fungible for real money.

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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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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Other than a second-rate musician, “Cisco” is descriptive of nothing, offering no hint as to the company’s initial core competency in router design and development. Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market.

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