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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC).

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

miiCard– which stands for “My Internet Identity”– is an identify verification service using your email address, your mobile phone, and your online banking account to prove you are actually you. miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

But the three standout countries in terms of ambition are United Arab Emirates (95-percent), South Africa (85-percent) and India (81-percent). Well, unsurprisingly, online social networking is huge with this lot. Technology rules their lives. The quantitative research was conducted online between June and July 2011.

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Memories of an Unconnected Era: Searching for Sugar Man

Both Sides of the Table

And for a bit of nostalgia for those that connected via modems (our original modems were external about about the size of two Amazon Kindles stacked on top of each other) play this short SoundCloud audio of a modem connecting to the telco network. And he had never known of his success in South Africa. No Internet. No Twitter.

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Bitesize Friday: Israeli startups get funded, launch new products

VC Cafe

B efore we literally kick off the first ball in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, below is a collection of interesting links on Israeli startups and more for the week of June 11th: Interesting startups of the week. Even a few of the large exits such as Dune Networks did little to improve the Israeli VC funds balance.

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3 Big Lessons From African Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

In the most disadvantaged countries in Africa the odds are already stacked against you when it comes to becoming an entrepreneur. If your business doesn’t work out, you can go back to the drawing board, refinance, use tech solutions and networks to help you change tack. In some countries, failure is a big psychological problem.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Mark Zuckerberg’s journey started when he created a message program ‘ ZuckNet’ at the age of twelve, CourseMatch and FaceMash in college, and finally the world-famous social networking platform ‘Facebook’ which revolutionized communication, followed by taking over WhatsApp and Instagram. Thanks to David Reid, VEM Group ! #19-