Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. Fix the distribution bottleneck in rural Kenya. “My In some countries, like Kenya, the vast majority are not connected to the grid because there is no grid. There are literally hundreds of thousands of potential family clients in our region in Western Kenya. “We

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Transformify - Recruiting

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. He is one of the many young people in Kenya who have decided to start a business of their own. Kenya offers limited job opportunities to university graduates.

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deal architect

JULY 31, 2012

Have you been to Kenya or Tanzania during the annual wildebeest (and zebra and others) migration? It is an amazing sight to see the thundering herds seek out greener pastures. The New Florence blog feels as dynamic. Through July, there. Innovative Business Uses of Technology

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MARCH 14, 2018

China, Kenya and the United Kingdom. […]. By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News For the first time, Food+City held its annual Challenge Prize competition at South by Southwest. And judges awarded three $10,000 cash prizes to the winner of each of three sessions on Tuesday. Altogether 14 startups competed as finalists from the U.S., The post Three Startups Win Food+City Challenge Prizes at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2020

She is at the front lines of innovating public health response to COVID-19 as co-founder and Chair of Kenya’s National Business compact on Coronavirus and a board member of Safe Hands Kenya.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 10, 2017

Some of the countries with faster internet include Kenya, Lithuania, Slovenia, Moldova and many developing economies. We don’t really have the internet in Australia. I mean, sure we are connected to it, but we aren’t even in the top 50 countries for internet speeds. That’s a total travesty for our economic future. This is the modern. Continue reading → The post This year the internet arrives in Australia appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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David Cohen

MAY 16, 2014

In the first segment, Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa are featured: African entrepreneurship has really been moving forward for some time now. A while back I invested in a company called Mobius Motors , which is based in Kenya. Here’s a second segment about Kenya’s mobile money revolution. Technology is changing lives — even saving lives — in Africa, the world’s second most populous continent.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I figured it was Valentine’s Day somewhere in the world yesterday at 6pm Colorado time like, well, in Kenya, where Amy was. Amy arrived home from Africa yesterday evening around 6pm. She had been gone for 12 days and, while she had an awesome trip, we missed each other terribly. She arrived home to a bunch of early Valentine’s Day stuff like a hot bath.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account. Two is to reach up to 20,000 new households, including expanding into one, maybe two new markets outside Kenya. You are based in Nairobi, Kenya. We’re a small startup in Kenya tackling one of the world’s most staggeringly huge challenges?—?electrifying

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2015

When I first met with founder Bill Barhydt and he described the vision, I immediately thought of M-Pesa, the mobile money network in Kenya. M-Pesa has built physical kiosks throughout Kenya for fund disbursement of transactions occurring over the mobile phone. One of the challenges of communicating the power of the blockchain over the past couple of years has been the absence of a “killer app”.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Joyce Wafukho, Kenya. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan. The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Usually, these offshore suppliers are in Asia, (India, Afghanistan, Malaysia, China, Vietnam and the Philippines), Eastern Europe (Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia), or Africa (Morocco, Kenya and South Africa).

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

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. A five-year-old mobile-money company called M-Pesa has 15 million users in Kenya alone (more than half the adult population) and processes a quarter of that country’s GDP. Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation.

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Gust

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Kenya had one of the largest increases, and jumped 13 spots to 22nd for the month of November. For November 2012 we are noticing an interesting trend of product ready companies declining, while concept stage companies are rising. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

For example, Silicon Savannah – the name given to Nairobi’s (Kenya) growing tech scene – and Chilecon Valley, found in Chile’s capital, Santiago, demonstrate the global appetite for tech entrepreneurship. by Germán Montoya is the Chief Strategy and Creative Officer at Rokk3r Labs. Venture Capitalism is changing. Almost synonymous with this startup-focused era, the once indomitable VC investor sector is changing and adapting to deal with the changing nature of entrepreneurship.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

One only needs to look at the example of M-Pesa in Kenya to see how digital currency can impact the underserved. When I first learned of Bitcoin, I thought of M-Pesa and how it had empowered so much of Kenya’s population. We’ve come together because we believe in the potential of this technology to have a significant, positive social impact. – Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company).

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Transformify - Recruiting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In Living Color – Kenya Barris brings “black-ish” to life as a modern era family sitcom, able to confront race and class directly. I’m on vacation this week back East with my family. One of my personal anachronisms is a love of print magazines. Since so much of my life is spent in front of a screen, I can’t imagine reading longer articles or books in the same format I do email.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In Living Color – Kenya Barris brings “black-ish” to life as a modern era family sitcom, able to confront race and class directly. I’m on vacation this week back East with my family. One of my personal anachronisms is a love of print magazines. Since so much of my life is spent in front of a screen, I can’t imagine reading longer articles or books in the same format I do email.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 12, 2017

Bettirose, a young woman from Kenya, and her group, Report Taka, developed an app to help with illegal trash dumping in Kenya. Latinitas Reports from SXSW 2017 Gina Rodriguez hosted the film premiere for startup documentary, “ Seed,” at the Violet Crown theater on March 11 during SXSW. Photo by Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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Transformify - Recruiting

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Steve has just graduated from Daystar University in Kenya. " Each year thousands of students in Kenya and Nigeria are graduating from the Universities. As most ambitious young people, Steve hopes that his degree will help him build his career in marketing and eventually start a marketing agency of his own. "It's "It's so exciting. A graduate of my university, Wilkins Odinga Fadhili, the CEO of Fashion Torch Africa , has already secured funding of Sh16.5 million.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 6, 2013

M-PESA, a payments system enabled on mobile phones, now constitutes 31% of Kenya’s GDP. Right now, more than 80% of Bitcoin volume is in the USD market. And many of the pundits commenting on Bitcoin, both positively and negatively, are in the US. So it is natural to assume that Bitcoin adoption will start first in the US. I think that that is a reasonable assumption, but it is one worth questioning.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

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. A five-year-old mobile-money company called M-Pesa has 15 million users in Kenya alone (more than half the adult population) and processes a quarter of that country’s GDP. Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. It is currently sold in Africa through Kenya’s largest medical distributor. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Technology impacts all facets of human life, and sometimes it can save it.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The Next Web’s Startup World – the global competition to promote entrepreneurship and startup culture globally- traveled to Mexico City, Peru, Chile, Buenos Aires, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania August and September this year – we met over 1500 entrepreneurs, investors and hackers from tech ecosystems around the world. kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

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. A five-year-old mobile-money company called M-Pesa has 15 million users in Kenya alone (more than half the adult population) and processes a quarter of that country’s GDP. Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Maha : In 2014, we visited the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya as part of a Gates Foundation/United Nations led initiative to build schools & clinics for the community.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Both Taiwan and Kenya have made agreements to exchange water technology and data revolving with Israel. I was fortunate to attend the party over at WATEC Israel 2011’s Cleanvest Summit. This is a pre-WATEC summit where startups got a chance to present their ideas to investors and hopefully have someone catch their bait. Cleanvest spotlighted companies from all over the clean energy spectrum, while the rest of the 3 day event exhibited water related technology companies.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

and Kenya. From their website: While microfinance has helped millions, many people have been left out: Think remote rural villages in Kenya or recent refugees with no credit history in the United States. Kiva is a fully international source for small loans, and Kiva Zip is available in Kenya. This has been a big year for advances in business funding.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

My aunt Kemie teaching children in Kenya to read. I recently finished my aunt Kemie’s book, A Book Teacher for Every School , about her experiences bringing thousands and thousands of books to children in Kenya for decades. I love her. Here’s the deal: I believe we should all strive to do more positive things in the world things that don’t directly benefit us.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

First one for Swedish Trade Council in Nairobi, Kenya was to learn and start from the very bottom. Zakaria Hersi is one of those fortunate people who has been able to stitch his vocation and avocation together seamlessly in his quest to achieve success – on his terms.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2011

The first project they’re engaged in is installing fuel-efficient cookstoves in Kenya. Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 13, 2016

A good example from the developing world is the Mpesa mobile money transfer that has revolutionized the way people in Kenya do their daily business. Everyone love going out for shopping every so often to buy either basic household commodities or just hanging out with friends in a mall having fun. In rear occasions you might have overspent all your cash in half the things you wanted to buy; or you run out of cash before the party is over!

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2015

Penda improves health care in Kenya. Koczela is enthusiastic about the entrepreneurial spirit in Kenya: “You are working from seven a.m. Who doesn’t want this guy for a lunch date? At a cat cafe, you can dine surrounded by felines. Where can Syrian entrepreneurs find startup funding? What U.S. industry is becoming more pet-friendly?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2012

At the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting at George Washington University this past weekend, former President Clinton announced over nine hundred new projects that students and universities will undertake to improve the world.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

One only needs to look at the example of M-Pesa in Kenya to see how digital currency can impact the underserved. When I first learned of Bitcoin, I thought of M-Pesa and how it had empowered so much of Kenya’s population. We’ve come together because we believe in the potential of this technology to have a significant, positive social impact. – Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , which finances and distributes household goods that can improve families’ quality of life in rural Kenya. Successful founders believe anything is possible but they build strong founding teams to achieve their startup dreams. Naivete and a shared vision are among the key markers for success, two social entrepreneurs said on the latest episode of Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111. Liz Powers.

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Bobsguide

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). As 2017 comes to a close, I think of it as the year of validation and gratitude, personally and for so many people around the world who have been marginalized and silenced in so many different ways.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 20, 2015

Lauren’s inner search began by working with rescued elephants in Thailand and from there moved on to Kenya to volunteer at a school. [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Like many entrepreneurs I’ve always had a strong urge to help other people, not just directly helping customers with my business, but in a broader social sense too. Donating to charities is great, but I’ve never felt.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners. The Nature Conservancy and Techstars just announced a partnership to create the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator. Amy and I were part of the public announcement this week in Denver. Both organizations are important to us so it’s a joy to be involved in having them work together. Amy and I have been supporters of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) since we started our relationship in 1990.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

When I visited an organization that we work with in Kenya called Evidence Action , we visited the site in which these people were getting these chlorine water pumps and we helped fund an education around these clean water pumps. Exploring The Everyday is an interview series exploring interesting individuals or companies who are trying to make an impact on the lives of everyday people. You can learn more about this series here , or read our past interviews here.

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Transformify - Recruiting

JULY 21, 2019

In 2006, I volunteered in an orphanage in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya. ‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Marie O’Riordan, Senior Public Relations & Communications Manager at Prepaid Financial Services.

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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. Last week, I spoke at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering in NYC about how emerging markets (and Africa in particular) are leapfrogging innovation in the financial services sector.

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