David Cohen

MAY 16, 2014

A production of BloombergTVAfrica , this will be an ongoing series about technology and entrepreneurship across Africa. In the first segment, Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa are featured: African entrepreneurship has really been moving forward for some time now. Here’s a second segment about Kenya’s mobile money revolution.

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Gust

DECEMBER 19, 2012

For November 2012 we are noticing an interesting trend of product ready companies declining, while concept stage companies are rising. Kenya had one of the largest increases, and jumped 13 spots to 22nd for the month of November. Portugal and Chile both came up four spots, rising to 13th and 14th on the list.

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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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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Although some startups were not well thought through most were up to Silicon Valley standards in terms of quality of ideas, scalability, product and execution. Many hackers are using M-Pesa’a API to build products and services on top of the platform or as a opportunity to innovate around SMS. Many female entrepreneurs.

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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. A network of accessible agents throughout the country allows people to redeem money transferred to them.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Note to self, this event is not for alpha products with no customers. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. The crowd turnout was pretty good and the event was well organized with plenty of food and drinks. Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up.

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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.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Note to self, this event is not for alpha products with no customers. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. The crowd turnout was pretty good and the event was well organized with plenty of food and drinks. Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. That’s the mission driving products like Hemafuse , one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020. Our top goal is to break into new markets and add new products to our portfolio. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2015

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

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 31, 2017

The amount of lost talent and productivity from this is staggering to think of. I was lucky – I was born to persevere and grew up with parents who told me I could do whatever I wanted to do (well, almost anything, I spent many nights crying as a 10 year old, upset that I was born in Kenya and could not run for President of the United States).

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 23, 2012

Their fear of Facebook and Apple has led them to undermine our trust by putting themselves first and filling our search results pages with Google+ and other Google products which are inferior to the competition. " Google began promoting its own products in search over more obviously relevant ones.

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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. If I could bring the products that help with their quality of life, I think it could have a massive impact in their lives. …. Rocio Perez-Ochoa.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2014

See Also Inspired Ideas to Boost Employee Productivity During the Holidays. Here are some simple things your company can do to foster a warm and friendly culture between coworkers all while contributing positively to people in need. Have a Giving Tree.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We 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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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 20, 2015

Every product sold funds a certain amount of education days for women and girls and this is delivered by the charity partners Lauren has teamed up with. Lauren’s inner search began by working with rescued elephants in Thailand and from there moved on to Kenya to volunteer at a school.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 12, 2012

Mining cellphone billing records – GigaOM describes a number of use cases for this data including helping with malaria education in Kenya. Over the years we’ve seen a lot of plans from companies that put some value on data generated as a by-product of their main business and only a few of them succeeded in monetising that value.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The product ideas and business plans came as part of a “poster session” competition that was the capstone project for the Business 101: Introduction to Professional Responsibility course. . — When mixed with water, the product would help users avoid serious dental-health problems.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

TSM: What kind of traction are you getting and can you share some examples of your product impact? 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. Quality control?

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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. Skills – I do product, business, marketing. It’s easier to take that vacation when you know someone will be at the office that will care the way you do and share your goals.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Performance-based deals can effectively mitigate your monetary risk of entering into a non-productive consulting relationship. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Their story, market positioning, products, etc. Time Is Not Money, Time Is Everything.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Correspondingly, your products’ names contribute to, but do not dictate, their success.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2020

Brands have natural incentives to get people to buy their products and reward them for picking up a new behaviours. In this step, brands create awareness of a behavior issue related to its products by demonstrating why certain behaviors or habits are harmful or need changing. Yet change is the only way we’ll reach the “new normal.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

But I especially admire the way that you have thrown yourselves into relief efforts very different from the product that you were building just a few months ago. So would you talk a little bit about the history of the company and what the product was pre-crisis. We were at Haas School of Business.

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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. MyDawa has entered into agreements and formed partnerships with a number of different clinic chains in Kenya, making it simpler for those clinic chains to expand their operations.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something. With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. Thanks to David Wachs, Handwrytten ! #5)

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

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). In Bulgaria, where I’m involved in a new fund, it’s a desert.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 12, 2017

United States high school students Ethan, Pulkit, and Devin, have developed an image-recognizing software called Nomad that will allow consumers to take a photo of an article of clothing they see someone wearing down the street and instantly show them what online stores sell that product.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This is a very strong product on AppEngine. 30 minutes later I'm crossing a floor-mat welcoming me with "there's no place like 127.0.0.1." Shops can also create a list of dedicated delivery zones; for instance, if you're the cafeteria in a mixed-use building, you can let people order straight to their offices, meeting rooms, etc.

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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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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. We’ve worked in teams to promote a product or idea where our ideas got ignored and then a coworker took credit for it. Different business owners also have different reason why they love their business.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 20, 2014

Take Erastus Kimani, a 73 year old schoolteacher turned entrepreneur, who lives in a remote part of Kenya without indoor plumbing, much less indoor banking. They crowdfunded $1700 which allowed him to triple the production of his ceramic stove liner business. Erastus attracted lenders from all over the world. Networks of Trust.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. Banks have also shown that they have been unable to protect customer data while they continue to provide services irrelevant to the millennial generation.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. Banks have also shown that they have been unable to protect customer data while they continue to provide services irrelevant to the millennial generation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Obviously, I release products at my job. The other thing that I knew that maybe they didn't know is because of my job in product and in marketing, and my experience in storytelling, I have a sense of what you can tell people to influence their behavior. And you look at an example like Kenya, for example.

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