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Three Megatrends That Will Affect Everybody’s Business

YoungUpstarts

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. Advances in 3-D printing will change the cost and efficiency of making a lot of products and even body parts or organs! Professor Dominique V.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

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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How to Bring the Holiday Spirit of Giving into Work

Up and Running

See Also Inspired Ideas to Boost Employee Productivity During the Holidays. If you’re not familiar with the idea, start by having employees draw names from a pool of everyone in the office, and then purchase a gift for the person whose name they have drawn. Have a Giving Tree. Caroling fish, anyone?

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The 5 Types of Employees You’ll Find on Your Startup Journey (and How to Manage Them)

Up and Running

He was joking, of course—your employees aren’t a bunch of animals struggling for survival at a watering hole in Tanzania—but they sure will act like it sometimes. Hyenas feed on office gossip as if it was the carcass of a freshly killed gazelle and leave behind hurt feelings and productivity picked clean. Wrangling Monkeys.

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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

Startup Lessons Learned

His name is Tomas Pueyo. 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. He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: TripBucket

crowdSPRING Blog

While living my personal Dream to Summit Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania we took the website live, literally as I was hiking up the mountain. We are also focused on gaining additional exposure of the TripBucket name through social media. What’s the craziest story you have from starting your own business?