Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is the CEO & General Partner of the investment firm Street Global. Her online radio show: Global Fireside Chats, brings together global industry titans to share insights on our fast-changing world. 10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? [11:53]

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2019

With increased flexibility offered by smart mobile devices and wireless Internet connection, traders can achieve today more than they were able to in the past. Traders can now monitor currency prices and changes in pip regardless of their location, as long as they have a decent Internet connection.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard– which stands for “My Internet Identity”– is an identify verification service using your email address, your mobile phone, and your online banking account to prove you are actually you. miiCard is like flashing your driver’s license or passport on the internet.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

My purpose was primarily learning about the internet and how to build a business. But it wasn’t until I was in Africa several years ago that I was inspired by the people I met there to follow my own dreams – and start a new business. 18- Desire to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post. Look at the world as today’s global market. But it does mean that every move be made with a global consideration.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

With the Middle Kingdom accounting for such a large proportion of the global population, mainland China will still fuel world economic growth, but the pace of growth will vary province by province more than ever. The internet of everything is on its way. And this change will only continue to move quicker!

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

If you are an Internet/software business, take care you pick a location that helps you to start. When we started our business, only a few global tech businesses were also located in Berlin – most famously SoundCloud. It’s now a global product, in US, Asia, Europe and Africa. Really, the world is your market.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This environment allowed Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, to build a modern day conglomerate: an Internet platform providing commerce, entertainment and financial services to a middle class that numbers over 300 million (and expected to reach nearly 1 billion in the next 20 years).

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. I recognized the challenges that the majority of the unemployed face in South Africa: a lack of finance, lack of frequent access to technology, education and language issues (English is not the first language of many in South Africa). I was thinking about Vancouver.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Being a digital marketing company, our world is being constantly changed by the changes happening in the world of the internet. I started a global branding and digital marketing firm 19 years ago. If you’re in the industry that leverages the internet, technology can only of great help to you. Photo credit: Avinash Chandra.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. Thanks to Chris Wain, Africa Travel ! #4- Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. I’ve been a member of the North Face global athlete team for over 10 years.

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Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

I mean, 85% of millennials, for example, are now on a smartphone, and we’ve seen internet access grown around the world. He lived in the middle of Africa in a pretty rural place. He’d spend all of his money that he raised on an hour’s worth of internet access. And he’d contribute to this project, Ubuntu.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market. The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach. Africa ahead in mobile.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If one looks around in the world, you see these huge problems, massive inequality, hunger, poverty, climate change, issues of how to set up a global trading system. There were some great examples of enabling students in Africa to participate in programs from Australia, which had never happened before. You have national problems.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The VoD service provider used the CES event in Las Vegas to launched its service globally, taking its internet TV network to more than 130 new countries around the world. It is also available across Africa.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Africa is a huge and diverse continent, and over the last few years, it has emerged as one of the world’s hotspots for startups. In Africa, entrepreneurs have serious, intractable problems that western startups don’t face. by Sharon Fishburne. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. He expressed to me the idea that investing in Africa was—he used the word “risky.” I don’t think investing in Africa is risky.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This environment allowed Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, to build a modern day conglomerate: an Internet platform providing commerce, entertainment and financial services to a middle class that numbers over 300 million (and expected to reach nearly 1 billion in the next 20 years).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

China is looking beyond natural resources; in Israel, Chinese companies are finding the technological advantage and innovative spirit that can help them compete in their domestic market and ultimately become dominant global players. Some statistics first: according to the OECD, the global middle class will grow from an estimated 1.8

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

On Bplans, we often share information about United States’ specific resources, like SBDCs (small business development centers), but those resources probably aren’t as helpful to global entrepreneurs. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. South Africa. Endeavor South Africa. Global Entrepreneurship Network.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The thing Kelly did was send out a request to the internets asking for “100 word descriptions of a plausible future 100 years from now that he would like to live in” He said he would give $100 to the best one he received. Creative middle class the new majority, globally mobile. Internet of everything physical continued.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I suspect Ryan is keener on building a consumer Internet play, but my business experience says this would do better as an add-on residing on the sites of other retailers. My read on the business is that it needs to go to market in a B-to-B mode, expanding the scope of gift registries on major sites like Macy's and Crate & Barrel.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

In today’s incredibly busy, globally interconnected world, it can be easy to unintentionally start taking things for granted. As we reported last week, this was the year of the inaugural Women’s Entrepreneurship Day during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Mall for Africa. The feel-good news. We’ve never been better off.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

And recently, Toms launched a new initiative to benefit gorilla habitats in Africa. Hudson writes a weekly personal newsletter to the more than 5,000 global employees to highlight what he cares about in work and life. It’s well known that this company gives a pair of shoes to someone in need for each pair sold.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. It cost billions, cost years and distract from the core mission trying to create your own code ecosystem.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Well, for starters they a) pursue global Markets b) place company culture above all else and c) They embrace the Black Swan within and without. They Pursue Global Markets. In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. Your India strategy? •

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2015

The talent pool accessible to companies today is global. There are plenty of other examples on the internet as well. A systems engineer from India is often no better than one from Africa, however, preexisting stereotypes will work to the advantage of the former. by Soumik Roy. Logistics isn’t a constraint anymore.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

Redwood City, California’s Shutterfly, a leading internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, has acquired Israel’s Photoccino , a developer of groundbreaking technologies for photo ranking, analysis and organization. Global sales in 2011 were $2.76 SHUTTERFLY ACQUIRES ISRAELI PHOTO SOFTWARE COMPANY PHOTOCCINO.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2015

More recently we’ve seen this play out with riots and public disturbances within advanced economies like the US, the UK and France and arguably on a global scale with widespread anti-American feelings in parts of Asia and Africa.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 25, 2012

By John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). When the Internet was first conceived as a better way for computers to communicate with one another, no one could predict the impact it would have on business communications. billion of them.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In a global market where the buyers and sellers of coffee are often half a world away from those who grow and maintain the plants themselves, do you know what those worker’s lives are like? Thorough internet search. If you own a business that sells coffee, do you know if your coffee producers are getting a fair shake?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 15, 2011

I am not originally Australian – I was born and raised in South Africa and then Ireland, before moving here as a teenager. I consider myself a global resident as I am very widely traveled, and would like to settle elsewhere in the world for at least part of the year.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

I had to grow up reading books because the internet was not yet a useful resource; it did not contain the depth of answers to pursue a passion. We predict that DIY Marketing & Advertising will be an emerging trend in the years to come because the internet will advance the way we do business further.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I firmly believe that God created the internet so we could fail faster. I know of no other way to achieve one's global maxima on the web. DoubleClick Ad Planner is my go-to source for demographic and psychographic analysis for any website or, how amazing is this, the whole entire darn internet! Google Website Optimizer.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

Globalization – As I sat on boards of portfolio companies through the years, I encountered many entrepreneurs who were looking for advice and partnerships on opportunities outside of the US. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Globalization – As I sat on boards of portfolio companies through the years, I encountered many entrepreneurs who were looking for advice and partnerships on opportunities outside of the US. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future.

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