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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

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Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. 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. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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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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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. 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. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. 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. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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What the Elephant God Can Teach Tech Entrepreneurs

thebarefootvc

I see more entrepreneurs today than before and a higher velocity of technology innovation. Technology usage is no longer on the fringe, it is part of most people’s daily life, be it in India, Russia, Abu Dhabhi or Silicon Valley. Large Flapping Ears: Last year when I was in Rwanda I wrote a post on the importance of listening.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? We discussed how Burma is now the first “smartphone only” country in the world.

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