YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 5, 2015
Over the next five years, some African economies (Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania, just to name a few) are likely to grow as fast as, or faster, than some of the recent Asian champions. Infrastructure will need to be redone and rethought, creating a lot of openings for building and technology innovators. Explosion in technology. .
The Next Web
OCTOBER 15, 2012
Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. 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.
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thebarefootvc
MAY 13, 2015
My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India. At the time I couldn’t even imagine an Internet – that would have been more fantastical than the science fiction that was my genre of choice.
thebarefootvc
MAY 13, 2015
My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India. At the time I couldn’t even imagine an Internet – that would have been more fantastical than the science fiction that was my genre of choice.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. 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
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