Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

If one receives a loan and purchases livestock with out any previous funding for hands-on training and market research regarding this business, you can quickly end up back to the drawing board and in debt when missteps or unforeseen events occur. Is the market competitive? Set aside some money and time for marketing and promotion.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Joyce Wafukho, Kenya. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan.

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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. Traditional banks are hampering global GDP growth by not providing financial services such as loans to people who can expand their livelihoods through those services.

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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. Speaking a good level of English is also paramount as Silicon Valley investors are now looking to emerging markets to make investments. Many female entrepreneurs.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

stock market performance and the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the massive growth in U.S. markets, but for the most part our “entrepreneurial services” were consumed by U.S. the modern world has become a perfectly competitive market in all of the best senses. based opportunities.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Steve has just graduated from Daystar University in Kenya. 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 Marketing entry jobs are not well paid, but I need to develop my skills and build a network.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

His every move and misstep dissected and castigated by the same media and investors who sang his praises when things were going well, one can only guess at the anguish, shame and embarrassment that led the young entrepreneur into – what appeared to me as an uninformed observer – self imposed exile, in Kenya.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Take a look at these innovations which were first implemented in the emerging markets and are now making their way to the “first world”: Mobile Money: Six years ago, mPesa launched in Kenya to transfer money via cellphone. The ethos behind microcredit has reached a market well beyond the poor, rural woman in an emerging market.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Mobile Marketing Comes of Age: Retailers finally began to see the promise of location based applications and consumers changed their shopping behavior using their mobile devices. The list of applications to engage, empower and organize citizens continues to grow, and will be one of the most defining legacies of 2011.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 6, 2013

Right now, more than 80% of Bitcoin volume is in the USD market. M-PESA, a payments system enabled on mobile phones, now constitutes 31% of Kenya’s GDP. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Zakaria continued to learn however he could, working for free on more than one occasion as a means to learn about different business and geographic markets and to expand his professional network. Is this an approach you would recommend to others as a means of breaking through in a difficult job market? Coursio was different case.

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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. Disrupting the disrupter.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. ObjectiveMarketer offers an integrated platform for businesses to create, execute and optimize powerful multi-channel social media marketing programs. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. Web Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — ObjectiveMarketer.

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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.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. ObjectiveMarketer offers an integrated platform for businesses to create, execute and optimize powerful multi-channel social media marketing programs. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. Web Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — ObjectiveMarketer.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. It is currently sold in Africa through Kenya’s largest medical distributor.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Nigeria itself is home to 170 million people, a figure that is expected to rise to 400 million by 2050, and the biggest market in Africa. This was a $33 billion market in Nigeria in 2012 in which the two biggest brick-and-mortar players had a combined market share of 0.9 Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 12, 2012

Mining social media and other music sites to predict the next Lady Gaga – GigaOM highlights Next Big Sound as a key company in this market. I think business intelligence is most obvious near term application for big data and that the most obvious short term startup opportunity is technologies and services for this market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was that if branding and marketing matter, and these organizations are doing good work, we wanted to contribute in the best way we could. Thus, the Give Back program was born. And we’re thrilled to announce that the crowdSPRING community’s next Give Back project is to brand UK non-profit gather.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was that if branding and marketing matter, and these organizations are doing good work, we wanted to contribute in the best way we could. Thus, the Give Back program was born. And we’re thrilled to announce that the crowdSPRING community’s next Give Back project is to brand UK non-profit gather.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was that if branding and marketing matter, and these organizations are doing good work, we wanted to contribute in the best way we could. Thus, the Give Back program was born. And we’re thrilled to announce that the crowdSPRING community’s next Give Back project is to brand UK non-profit gather.

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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. Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). This is really complicated.”

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 20, 2015

Tweet "How Aussie Entrepreneur Lauren Shuttleworth Went After The Stationery Market #entrepreneur"] How Lauren Became A Force For Good Lauren began her journey as an entrepreneur in the online space in 2008 by selling jewellery to a wholesale market via three different group buying sites.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

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. At that time, Mac computers made up a mere 6 percent of the market and I argued we needed to focus on other areas. Skills – I do product, business, marketing. The last is a designer.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Construction is a trillion-dollar market, but planning remains complicated and inaccurate. 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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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales. Their story, market positioning, products, etc. I’ve done tech marketing and PR consulting for 20+ years – many clients with multi-year and (entrepreneurial) multi-business relationships.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. 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). Amazing, right?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2020

And no one is in a better position to help make this happen than marketers and brands. Just look at Durex, a condom brand, that helped reduce HIV infections worldwide by creating behavior change through marketing and public-private partnerships. Yet change is the only way we’ll reach the “new normal.”

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

5) Market Downturn. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. Thanks to David Wachs, Handwrytten ! #5)

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Transformify

JULY 21, 2019

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). Since then, I embarked on humanitarian missions around the world.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2023

Private equity firm Alta Semper Capital has provided a financing injection of twenty million dollars to the e-health business MyDawa, which is based in Kenya. Because of this significant investment, Alta Semper Capital is launching its operations in the digital healthcare market in Africa for the very first time.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Some of them got funding, when you’re in a nacent market, you’re builidng the market. Bridgette: Jehan, how is Pakistan unique as a market? . We started with unique projects to the local market with the first projects we funded. For us it’s about bringing people together.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Field-to-market : Farmers out in their fields can find out what their commodity is selling for right now at the main markets in Nairobi, a process whose lack of transparency formerly allowed middle-men to skim off money from the seller. 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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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Like talking through our ideas with some mentors, for instance a founder of Build-A-Bear is heavily involved in the school that I went to, and she helped guide us, and we ended up just calling up random running stores and asked if this would this be a product that they would be interested in, is it fulfilling a market need? helping them.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market. The company continues to dominate a variety of markets, despite the fact that no one has used the term “micro computer” during the past 25 years.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Swipely is focused on payment marketing, namely unifying loyalty programs and payments for main street merchants. M-Pesa created by mobile carrier Safaricom in Kenya is the best known example of this. food trucks, farmers market vendors, small retailers, event organizers, etc), most of whom previously didn’t accept credit cards.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

We're addressing a $20 billion market just in schools alone, and there's room for a lot of players on the public and private side. In our case, we didn't provide lunches at this school, so coming to school with a healthy lunch. I think you could probably gather that by talking to us.

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