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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

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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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

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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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 13: Liz Powers and Rocio Perez-Ochoa

Steve Blank

Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , which finances and distributes household goods that can improve families’ quality of life in rural Kenya. A week later we had $10,000 in sales. Rocio Perez-Ochoa. Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.).

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

The Next Web

In 2003, he was the founder of Nigeria’s first online-realtime Point of Sale (POS) electronic payment system and in 2004 created West Africa’s first locally issued and processed online-realtime international payment card: Ecobank MasterCard. “We This year’s Flying Donkey Challenge is likely to bring such dreams closer to reality.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Sales (12). Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

If “Smucker’s” can be slapped on food and annually generate billions of sales, chances are that your company name, no matter how mediocre, will not preclude you from achieving significant success. However, if this is true, “Aardvark” would have been a more clever choice and equally as relevant to online book sales. Sales (13).

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

M-Pesa created by mobile carrier Safaricom in Kenya is the best known example of this. The rason d’etre for LevelUp (like most other firms) is to tap into the retailer’s marketing budget (10-20% of sales potentially) rather than reduce interchange. Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year.

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