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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. Turpin was named president of IMD in July 2010. This growth comes with challenges however. And this change will only continue to move quicker!

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

In both Rwanda and Tanzania ministers for technology spoke about how they see technology as the future for their the economic wealth of their country. We were surprised at how many female entrepreneurs pitched in the competition, particularly in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania. Governments supportive of technology.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: TripBucket

crowdSPRING Blog

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.