Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. According to the fund chairman, Ronnie Osumba, the start-up market is yet to be explored. Sales & Marketing/ Writing. What are the most common skills in each category?

Africa 75

Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Market Opportunity. But what about markets? We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. One of the common refrains that I heard was that investors were looking for “large markets with lots of white space.&# This annoyed me to no end.

Entrepreneur 330

Entrepreneur Tunisia Egypt Iran 330

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

In 2010 not "very smart" feature phones - handsets that are dumber than smartphones - comprised over 75 percent of the mobile market. Snaptu is a fast-growing application for feature-phones (or not-so-smart phones) which serves as a mini-app store for WAP-Internet phones. source: [link].

Sri Lanka 94

Sri Lanka Dominican Republic Saudi Arabia 94

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And while DataSift is a provider of multiple real-time data feeds, I would like to be clear that Twitter is by far the most important and dominant of the real-time publicly available data that exists on the Internet today, which is why today’s bet for me is on the Twitter ecosystem. Real time + location equals marketing opportunity.

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

But something more nuanced is at hand that is worth debating – is the future of the Internet & global communications more open or more closed? Brands who build pages there are not building equity in the open Internet, they’re building it in today’s walled garden. As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran.

Iran 274

Iran Silicon Valley Tunisia Social Media 274