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Counting On ‘Social Capital’: The New Way To Evaluate Entrepreneurial Worth

YoungUpstarts

In a 3-year examination of the challenges faced by skilled entrepreneurs with highly developed social capital operating in geographies with underdeveloped ‘financial capital’ markets, the dislocation between the two proved to be profound and stifling. The team at kountable believes it can.

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What the Elephant God Can Teach Tech Entrepreneurs

thebarefootvc

Large Flapping Ears: Last year when I was in Rwanda I wrote a post on the importance of listening. Focus is key to successful execution and is why visionary founders with great ideas are often paired with more operational leaders. Large ears signify listening capacity. When we are concentrating our eyes narrow.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? Now, almost ten years later, sub $25 smartphones are broadly available there, and mobile operators in the Burmese market are focused only on smartphone applications for the networks – not even SMS messaging.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? Now, almost ten years later, sub $25 smartphones are broadly available there, and mobile operators in the Burmese market are focused only on smartphone applications for the networks – not even SMS messaging.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? Now, almost ten years later, sub $25 smartphones are broadly available there, and mobile operators in the Burmese market are focused only on smartphone applications for the networks – not even SMS messaging.

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