YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2018

The new competitive landscape is shaped less by firm-specific strategies and more by new business models powered by ecosystem-centric strategies. Uber and Airbnb are two wildly successful companies who reflect ecosystem-centric business models. The things that made many organizations successful up to now no longer apply.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2019

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes in design, business, tech, you name it. They moved everything to the online model in late 2013, early 2014, and that’s when kind of landed on the current online learning business model. He is the CEO of Skillshare.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

These include the continued pursuit of weapons of mass destruction by states and non-state groups, the outbreak of internal conflict across the Middle East and in parts of Africa, the most significant flow of refugees since World War II, and a changing climate that is beginning to affect both developed and developing countries.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

In a casual conversation with Segnit, he shares with us the method to his entrepreneurial ventures and how his particular brand of “crazy” is the motor that drives the success of his business. The MAGFAST Family includes a total of six chargers designed to accommodate every possible charging scenario. What’s Next for MAGFAST?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

For example, somewhere in Africa, an AI-driven solar battery plant can broker energy between villages AI-based power plants and bid/ask based on “efficiency credits” with no human involvement. Or a retail store can have an AI that hire human temp works from an AI human recruiter to perform instructed tasks during the holiday season.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

These include the continued pursuit of weapons of mass destruction by states and non-state groups, the outbreak of internal conflict across the Middle East and in parts of Africa, the most significant flow of refugees since World War II, and a changing climate that is beginning to affect both developed and developing countries.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The origins of the subscription economy can be traced back to newspapers and periodicals, but the advent of technology is what brought this business model into the mainstream. Let’s just imagine a quick scenario, how does a skilled graphic designer in the US compete with the prices of comparably skilled workers in Africa?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Companies all over the world are stepping up to the plate and pivoting from their normal business model towards one that emphasizes assistance and relief for COVID-19. With our pivot, we will have created a new set of disciplines around design, iteration, safety, and service in low-income communities. in economic impact.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. Right now, across parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, people are literally using a kitchen soup ladle and cheesecloth to salvage blood,” says Carolyn Yarina of Sisu Global Health , creator of Hemafuse. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2019

Of all the sports leagues they seem to have built the strongest global brand with players coming from Africa, all over Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, etc. One of the companies that I admire is United Wholesale Mortgage(UWM) for their innovative business model. #2-The NBA, National Basketball Association.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

They saw a need for an easy-to-understand decision-making tool that could enable all major players involved in building design (architects, engineers, contractors and real estate developers) to see and compare options for cost and energy savings. Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2016

Hearing how – and why – he shifted his life’s work to addressing water issues in Africa moved me to start getting involved in his and other organizations. Although I haven’t yet had the chance to go with Scott to Africa, we’re looking to join one of his “family trips” when our daughter is old enough.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2016

Hearing how – and why – he shifted his life’s work to addressing water issues in Africa moved me to start getting involved in his and other organizations. Although I haven’t yet had the chance to go with Scott to Africa, we’re looking to join one of his “family trips” when our daughter is old enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

My business partner and I [previously] worked in East Africa with companies that provide energy solutions to people living without electricity. Businesses were focusing on inventing new products and tech almost for the sake of it. It makes so much sense to design a business around the customer instead of the product.”

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2017

I was very involved in a few clean water NGO’s in Sub-Saharan Africa, and knew that whatever company I would start, regardless of the industry, its focus and mission would have to be on improving conservation and access to clean water and education. I also did a lot of volunteering.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Companies all over the world are stepping up to the plate and pivoting from their normal business model towards one that emphasizes assistance and relief for COVID-19. With our pivot, we will have created a new set of disciplines around design, iteration, safety, and service in low-income communities. in economic impact.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

In 2018 my wife and i drove from London to Cape Town along the west coast of Africa. This amazing adventure was the inspiration for our business. I began by connecting talented employees with jobs but soon had to close the business due to a lack of a solid business model. Photo Credit: Andy Smith.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Conceived in my Princeton dorm room, TerraCycle’s original business model of worm poop fertilizer was like a lightbulb going on in my head: we could take the school’s food waste, feed it to worms, get beautiful worm poop, and sell it. We began to realize that our goals had to be about more than just lifestyle design.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

It would cover every city, town and square inch of the earth from ships in the middle of the Arctic Ocean to the jungles of Africa to the remote mountain peaks of the Himalayas. With an out-of-this-world business plan. But Iridium’s business model assumptions were fixed like it was still 1990. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

These social entrepreneurs use their know-how and business savvy to make the world a better place, combining a traditional business model with a pressing social mission in ways that have been helping to make big changes in places around the world for decades. Willie Smits. Bunker Roy.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). Web Design/Tech Services.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

ACH is an outgrowth of the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire system and was never intended for merchant payments (it was designed to replace paper drafts for certain interbank transfers like direct deposit). Though it has happened elsewhere and usually in places where there was a need (Rural Africa).

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. Most of Africa runs on a cash economy, making it much harder to Africans to access credit, low-cost financial transfers, and other basic tools of a modern economy. . I listed some examples above.

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