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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

YoungUpstarts

While many Indians are unbanked, mobile phone adoption is on the rise. India has about 200 million mobile subscribers and is adding 5 million new users monthly. What are mobile payments? Mobile payment technology removes the need for direct access to a bank or credit union.

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Three Megatrends That Will Affect Everybody’s Business

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Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations. Over the next five years, some African economies (Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania, just to name a few) are likely to grow as fast as, or faster, than some of the recent Asian champions.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

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Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Operating as an accelerator, starting in September it will recruit two classes of five startups per year. A Different Valley Culture.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

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Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Operating as an accelerator, starting in September it will recruit two classes of five startups per year. It has fast-developing infrastructure.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: African Tech Entrepreneurs Emerging

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And it was really cool to see a company from Tanzania. Next Taha Jiwaji of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, gave us an interesting snapshot of some opportunities opening up in Africa. an advertising and mobile services company that has subscribers and vendors as customers. I LOVE the international nature of the 1M/1M initiative.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Operating as an accelerator, starting in September it will recruit two classes of five startups per year. A Different Valley Culture.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: TripBucket

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At Tripbucket our mission is to help people realize their dreams by providing a web-based and mobile platform to track those things our registered users have already accomplished and that which remains on their personal bucket list. I’m speaking now as a web-based operator with no bricks and mortar. and other vendors and clubs.