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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

YoungUpstarts

A customer can transfer money or pay for goods and services by sending an SMS , using a Java application or other mobile communication technologies. It is being impacted by the growth in mobile network operators and mobile payment platforms, not classified as deposit-taking institutions, who are acting as banking agents.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. I last went to Burma in 2007.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. I last went to Burma in 2007.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma. I last went to Burma in 2007.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. And they got really into the idea of wearing masks and within three days, the whole country had masks, within three days with no government support. We found each other.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

We’ve changed the way industries operated to make them more human and minimise their externalities. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. It’s our prerogative to shape it and civilise it.