The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Impossible to manage.”. A couple years in, I got married and left on my honeymoon for two weeks to Kenya – where I had no email or phone connectivity much of the time. You can’t be successful unless you are the single visionary, or unless you have a cofounder, or unless there are three of you. Too many.”. Too dilutive.”.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The idea is that a person who knows how to run their business and is supported not necessarily with a chunk of startup capital but with business planning and resources for running and managing their business, will lead to success over the long term. What are the risks of the status quo in efforts to eradicate poverty?

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

as a management consultant and in 1977, he co-founded Apax Partners, a private equity firm. SRC puts this framework to practice in Social Finance, a social impact investment firm he founded to manage his philanthropic activities. He was born in 1946 to a working class immigrant family in London and attended a State school.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? I talk with people in Kenya, in Peru, in Mexico and in Bangladesh, and it is just so hard. And you look at an example like Kenya, for example. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

I noted in the blog post that Jugaad is “now an acceptable management technique…and also applies to any kind of creative and out of the box thinking which maximizes resources for a company and its stakeholders”. Resource scarcity leads to innovation — as those of us who have lived and worked in the developing world are acutely aware.

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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. What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies. It has fast-developing infrastructure.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Presenters: Sarah Jordan (Co-Founder & General Manager, Aesir Metals), Mark DeBruin (Co-Founder & Operations Manager, Aesir Metals). CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. Cleantech Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — BioLumber.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. So from 95%+ U.S.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Presenters: Sarah Jordan (Co-Founder & General Manager, Aesir Metals), Mark DeBruin (Co-Founder & Operations Manager, Aesir Metals). CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. Cleantech Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — BioLumber.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

I noted in the blog post that Jugaad is “now an acceptable management technique…and also applies to any kind of creative and out of the box thinking which maximizes resources for a company and its stakeholders”. Resource scarcity leads to innovation — as those of us who have lived and worked in the developing world are acutely aware.

Africa 40

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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. What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies. It has fast-developing infrastructure.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In Kenya, M-Pesa processed more transactions domestically than Western Union did globally, and “ provided mobile banking facilities to more than 70 per cent of the country’s adult population” , most of whom never had banking services before. In the West, we have been living in relative prosperity for decades.

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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. Heather Tallis , TNC’s Global Managing Director and Lead Scientist for Strategy Innovation, generously participated in our August 2017 Anchor Point Fellowship in Global Leadership Conference.

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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. What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies. It has fast-developing infrastructure.

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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. Rocio Perez-Ochoa is a former hedge fund manager who also was climate change policy advisor in the UK. Rocio Perez-Ochoa. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. and Indian companies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As communities consolidate and grow, their sanitation and waste management needs are growing, too, in both size and sophistication. The non-profit launched earlier this year with the goal of finding an effective way to build toilets and waste management systems to serve the most marginalized people. But the problem has been scaling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As communities consolidate and grow, their sanitation and waste management needs are growing, too, in both size and sophistication. The non-profit launched earlier this year with the goal of finding an effective way to build toilets and waste management systems to serve the most marginalized people. But the problem has been scaling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As communities consolidate and grow, their sanitation and waste management needs are growing, too, in both size and sophistication. The non-profit launched earlier this year with the goal of finding an effective way to build toilets and waste management systems to serve the most marginalized people. But the problem has been scaling.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

While they go along their farming routines, kids and household work, they manage to cook hot milk for you, and put a simple clay pot on the plain clay floor, filled with glowing charcoal to warm you. 30 minutes later I'm crossing a floor-mat welcoming me with "there's no place like 127.0.0.1."

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 12, 2012

GigaOM chose to highlight a datacentre management assistant technology called Autopilot from a German company called Arago. Mining cellphone billing records – GigaOM describes a number of use cases for this data including helping with malaria education in Kenya. Siri is perhaps the most famous example, but there are many others.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We managed to create a single software that is so powerful that we can optimize any business whether it is manufacturing, retail, transportation, oil and gas, metals or anything else. My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Cash Flow Management (4). Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |. If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). Google Tag Manager is one such solution. You can track mobile websites just fine with your standard web analytics tool. It is free.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

If the brand is properly managed, this naming convention can foster a halo effect over all the company’s products. Cash Flow Management (5). Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |. David Melin. Just some entertainment. John Greathouse. Wow, as in “Die in a fire?” ” Nice. 6 Comments.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

We also have built a team of remote employees located in different places of the world, and thanks to platforms such as Slack or Facebook workplace, we communicate daily and have managed to build a strong company culture. Today, we have more than 30 employees across three continents. Thanks to Wendy EkuaDaCruz, The VGC Group ! #16-EVERYTHING!

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. M-Pesa created by mobile carrier Safaricom in Kenya is the best known example of this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

I mean, one of our first thoughts was, "Gosh, we cannot afford to have part of our company, our drivers, our dishwashers, our production managers, our receivers, we cannot afford to have folks feel like they can't stay home if they're feeling like they might be sick or have symptoms.

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Transformify

JULY 21, 2019

Our guest today is Marie O’Riordan, Senior Public Relations & Communications Manager at Prepaid Financial Services. In 2006, I volunteered in an orphanage in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya. Their condition is often stigmatized and they are afraid of being neglected if the hiring managers find out about it.

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