Gust

DECEMBER 19, 2012

This trend is mostly led by a decrease in product ready internet web service companies in the US, Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom, and with an increase in concept stage companies in Spain, India, Brazil and the United States. Kenya had one of the largest increases, and jumped 13 spots to 22nd for the month of November.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Just as the continent has leapfrogged fixed-line internet by the all-conquering mobile phone (80 percent of Africans now had mobile phones in 2013 according to a report from TA Telecom) so the same may happen to transportation. Here come the drones. The future of e-commerce in Nigeria and Africa may also pivot on the use of drone technology.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Joyce Wafukho, Kenya. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. So from 95%+ U.S.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach. kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market.

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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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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I was lucky – I was born to persevere and grew up with parents who told me I could do whatever I wanted to do (well, almost anything, I spent many nights crying as a 10 year old, upset that I was born in Kenya and could not run for President of the United States).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 20, 2015

However eventually her jewellery business closed down as bigger retailers jumped on board once they realized the potential of the internet for online sales. Lauren’s inner search began by working with rescued elephants in Thailand and from there moved on to Kenya to volunteer at a school.

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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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Transformify

JULY 21, 2019

In 2006, I volunteered in an orphanage in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya. In December 2011, I was presented with an International Honorary Award for her philanthropic educational work through technology in Africa at a gala ball in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates hosted by the Middle East Internet Awards.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Intuitive URL – Legacy companies, which were named before the advent of the Internet and subsequently did not have the financial resources to purchase their company name URLs, are forced to shoehorn their names into URLs they can acquire. Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |. 6 Comments. No Comments.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I used to simply send emails over the internet, like everyone else, but this is so much more fun–except when one of my emails hit a colleague in the eye! We are generating employment for countries such as the United States, Philippines, Canada, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ghana and Nepal. 16-EVERYTHING!

Entrepreneur 91

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy. The Internet gets a bad rap for making people closed off, and sometimes, it’s true. In this talk, Erik Hersman discusses Ushahidi, a Google Maps mashup used in Kenya following the 2008 elections. Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s take back the Internet.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

Disintermediation 58

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 20, 2014

Take Erastus Kimani, a 73 year old schoolteacher turned entrepreneur, who lives in a remote part of Kenya without indoor plumbing, much less indoor banking. It recognizes that person-to-person connections are the essential fuel that powers the Internet. The Surprising Sophistication of Crowdfunding Platforms. Networks of Trust.

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San Francisco Kenya Global America 78

thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

Disintermediation 40

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English.

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