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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). We ask nothing from the companies, we just want them to help each other.

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – November 2012

Gust

The top four US states with the highest concentration of new startups are still California, New York, Florida and Texas. Kenya had one of the largest increases, and jumped 13 spots to 22nd for the month of November. For November, Pennsylvania takes fifth place and Georgia claims sixth.

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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. We saw that in New York, for example, very connected to Italy and a lot of cases very early on. I talk with people in Kenya, in Peru, in Mexico and in Bangladesh, and it is just so hard.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS. Last year the Rwandan government completed a $95 million fiber optic cable network reaching every district in the country to encourage new economic growth through ICT. Many female entrepreneurs.

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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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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

So at this point, one of the things we're most proud of is creating and providing multi-day family meal packs of meals that we're distributing through COVID right now, 100,000 meals a day in New York City at this point. That was our incredible team of operators and partnership team members in the New York and New Jersey region.

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From email scams to e-commerce wins: How online shopping is helping Nigeria fix its Internet reputation

The Next Web

For many Westerners, Victoria Island resembles the polar opposite of the imaginary Manhattan Island, the high-security prison depicted in John Carpenter’s film Escape From New York. Companies will have to make drone delivery baskets that can fly around Mount Kenya, delivering and collecting a number of 20 kilo payloads as they do so.

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