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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. By using social media to spread the word, this free site currently lists over 10,000 service providers, ranging from hairdressers to personal trainers to piano teachers. an advertising and mobile services company that has subscribers and vendors as customers.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: TripBucket

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And once you’ve finally made it to Reykyavik, you can share with family and friends via social media. While living my personal Dream to Summit Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania we took the website live, literally as I was hiking up the mountain. Talk about bragging rights. and other vendors and clubs.

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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

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So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. So I think at that point, in fact I've started looking into this and you actually can see the mobility in different Western countries dramatically go down after March 10th. Eric Ries : Well, you knew. You knew actually. billion people?