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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!

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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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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.

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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. Here are some simple things your company can do to foster a warm and friendly culture between coworkers all while contributing positively to people in need. Have a Giving Tree.

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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. Our other company, I2A Solutions ( www.i2asolutions.com ) helps companies achieve their dreams by building their next generation software products. and other vendors and clubs.

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Development Through Self Empowerment

thebarefootvc

I have spent a lot of time thinking about aid to developing nations, especially after my summer working on a UNIDO (United Nations Development Organization) project in Tanzania training women entrepreneurs. The project I was working on taught women basic business skills, including microfinance management, marketing and production.

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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

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. What was it like being in the eye of that storm? And I think that's very natural.