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Live now: The founder of The Muse answers your entrepreneurship questions via video. Get involved!

The Next Web

Kathryn Minshew is the CEO & Founder of The Muse , a career platform and job discovery tool serving more than 4 million professionals worldwide. Got a question for Kathryn? Use the chat feature above to get it answered live. She was recently listed in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media for the second year in a row and Inc.’s

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Five College Startups That Help Others

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They were inspired to create Givbag during a mission trip to Rwanda, where they recognized a need for backpacks among the schoolchildren. Founder Josh Weingart started WaterDrop Shop while enrolled at Illinois State University. Founder Ben Lewis started the company while attending the University of Pennsylvania.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

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Our winner in Rwanda Zilencio Creativo is a Kickstarter clone; When asked why the founders built a clone they told us they were unable to put a project on Kickstarter as the legalities state it’s for USA users only. In Rio we stayed with the founders of Resolveai, an Uber clone. Governments supportive of technology.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

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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. Savannah Fund co-founder Paul Bragiel is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and co-founder of i/o Ventures.

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Counting On ‘Social Capital’: The New Way To Evaluate Entrepreneurial Worth

YoungUpstarts

by Chris Hale, CEO and Founder of kountable, Inc. For the last two years the company has been measuring and scoring the social capital of entrepreneurs in Kigali, Rwanda. Chris Hale is the founder and CEO of kountable, Inc. , Entrepreneurs hustle. It’s part of the deal—table stakes. The team at kountable believes it can.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

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At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

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. Savannah Fund co-founder Paul Bragiel is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and co-founder of i/o Ventures.

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