ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I wrote down things like “I want to be able to go volunteer in Africa for 6 months when I want to. I also couldn’t be just a volunteer for non-profits as you gotta live and flying to Africa is not that cheap + would have to worry about financial security. The only possible solution: the income had to come from the internet.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Reliable Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Internet Explorer – [link]. Famine in East Africa Worsening – [link]. Adopting Feng Shui in Web Design – [link]. 25 Examples of Big Typography in Web Design – [link]. nin & The Liquid Economy – [link].

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8 trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 50 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 60,000 members worldwide. Or does it? I’ll come back to that later.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2011

Good to see innovation in delivering internet access to Africa (using voice control) – [link]. Fun industrial design: Unusual and Creative Designs of a Door Stop – [link]. Impressive Aluminum Based Package Designs – 37 Packages – [link]. Google’s Elemental API Periodic Table – [link].

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

What’s different this time around (as opposed to the tech bubble of the late 1990s) is the widespread use of technology, “digital natives” (millennials who grew up with the Internet and mobile phones) coming of age, and a cultural shift towards self-employment and risk taking (again, powered by stark economic realities).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

When I moved to VC, I found out that there were no good consumer internet startups. Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS. Testing if we can apply the accelerator model from the Bay Area to Africa. A startup that made Internet based insoles, for shoes. They were sporadic.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2010

Why artists and creatives have an unfair advantage in internet marketing – [link]. Breathtaking Pictures of Africa – [link]. Now in Blogs, Product Placement – [link]. Using Charts and Graphs for Content – [link]. Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King – [link]. Twinkie deconstructed – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

Considering what we hear of online scams – the Nigerian scam or site hacking comes quickly to mind – one would think that most scam schemes originate from Africa or Russia (with China sneaking up from behind). For Internet crimes, the biggest complaints isn’t on identity theft (9.8 You bet we are. percent), spam (8.6

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The Internet is trying to tell us something – [link]. The True Size of Africa – [link]. Nearly half of all Twitter users don’t read a word you say – [link]. Smart post by @umairh about gamification and marketing – [link]. Marketing trends – [link]. The future of stories.

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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. The internet houses millions of websites, but most are just stacked up without adding any value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? [11:53] That even though everyone in South Africa said to us, you're mad, what are you doing going to America for a sales app? Let's go back to South Africa. How do I leverage the power of, let's say the internet? Can I do more with this?

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David Cohen

MAY 16, 2014

Technology is changing lives — even saving lives — in Africa, the world’s second most populous continent. And although only 8 percent of Rwandans are internet users, that number is growing rapidly. A production of BloombergTVAfrica , this will be an ongoing series about technology and entrepreneurship across Africa.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

There will be big growth in the world but it will be elsewhere in countries like India or in Africa , where there will also be some big opportunities. The internet of everything is on its way. Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations.

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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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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Third Mainland Bridge is one of three bridges that connect Lagos’ Victoria Island with the ‘mainland’ and is the longest bridge in Africa. With a population estimated at between 21 and 23 million people, every month another 50,000 people converge from across Africa to live in the city. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

But the three standout countries in terms of ambition are United Arab Emirates (95-percent), South Africa (85-percent) and India (81-percent). We know that the Millennials are defined by their love for and use of technology, but how much do they really embrace the Internet and their devices? Technology rules their lives.

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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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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. With the advent of the internet, every opportunity is global, since every customer can see you from anywhere in the world.

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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. If you’re in the industry that leverages the internet, technology can only of great help to you. #5- Shorten page load time and enhance user experience. 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. Thanks to Dave Davies, Beanstalk Internet Marketing ! #27-

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Despite the advancement of women’s rights around the world – such as women’s suffrage and better education opportunities – women continue to suffer discrimination as compared to men, whether it is at the workplace , or having access to vital services such as the Internet.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

While we live in a widely connected world with affordable Internet data, up to 15 percent of U.S For instance, a number of maps and navigational apps feature an offline mode, which only uses the phone’s in-built GPS system, rather than internet data, for instance, the Maps.me Do you think people will use your product offline?

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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. It’s now a global product, in US, Asia, Europe and Africa. Luckily, San Francisco isn’t the only city in the world, there are other great places nowadays to start a business. New York, Tel Aviv, London, and Berlin are vibrant tech hubs too.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 500,000 members worldwide, perhaps the largest Angel investment community in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 200,000 members worldwide. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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The Next Web

AUGUST 23, 2014

Less than two years later, it became the first startup from Africa to receive funding from 500 Startups. The service solves a universal problem for companies but it happens that it was built in Ghana, where the internet penetration rate is just 40 percent. As of 2013, Dropifi had over 6,000 paying customers in 30 countries worldwide.

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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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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This was borne out of my personal frustrations in scouring the internet and needing to stitch together my own half-baked solutions. After spending almost a decade in Africa, I realized that most of the charities and nonprofits weren’t making as big of a difference as they claimed. 25- To Create Dignity.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

When he hit on the idea of selling clean water, a scarce commodity in Africa, he could barely afford the fees to power his tank. The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Reuben Mpunda, Tanzania.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2024

He had immigrated from South Africa to America when I was a young kid, and he just had this work ethic that I still haven't seen rivaled Today. 07:55): And we're like, oh, well, we have a system for that that we're using even before the internet existed. Where do we start? Just put this in your business. It's direct conversation.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

There were some great examples of enabling students in Africa to participate in programs from Australia, which had never happened before. And we had people doing that, both in Africa and in San Jose. Which is a huge strength and has network benefits that people couldn’t anticipate. Teaching remote enabled being able to increase access.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

If knowledge is power then every entrepreneurial startup should succeed because the information needed to do so is almost in plain sight, out there on the Internet. The UAE is also a gateway to the hundreds of millions of people making up the diverse populations of the Middle East and North Africa region.

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