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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

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. In both Rwanda and Tanzania ministers for technology spoke about how they see technology as the future for their the economic wealth of their country. Many female entrepreneurs.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

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A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

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.