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Bplans Briefcase: Business Stories to Keep You in the Know

Up and Running

Here are interesting news stories about innovative small businesses, surprising PR choices, and a business competition opportunity in the Middle East. Penda improves health care in Kenya. Koczela is enthusiastic about the entrepreneurial spirit in Kenya: “You are working from seven a.m. to nine p.m.

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Neurodiversity: Marie O’Riordan on the sense of belonging

Transformify

Marie is a Member of the Public Relations & Communications Association in the United Kingdom, a Member of The Academy of Marketing in the United Kingdom, and a Member of the New Media Professionals Association (NMPA) within the New York-based New Media Institute (NMI). About Transformify.

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Nairobi Weekend: New Startups in East Africa

ReadWriteStart

Bruno is a European-born entrepreneur currently busy building a new venture, work|i|o , in New York. Or, like me, at least shake off the remains of your skewed perceptions of a region whose global leadership in many aspects of mobile technology will eventually become undeniable to the world at large. The Highlights.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Joe Silverman, New York Computer Help ! #3) Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. I felt there is no reason why a service provider couldn’t be friendly, compassionate, and provide solid customer service while perform the computer repairs. 3) Love Solving Puzzles. It’s just my passion.

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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

I explained it to Washington State, because that was ground zero of the United States at the time until it was New York. So it seems like there's been this mass denial in certain countries, in certain states, driven it seems like by political leadership that somehow we can avoid these hard decisions, and it will somehow work out.