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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

Africa is not known to generate many technology talents – the country is far more prolific in its music, sport and art – but here’s one young African who intends to buck the trend. Mawuna Koutonin was born in a small village in Togo, West Africa to a father of 36 children. Peer-To-Peer Referral Network.

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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Everything from customer service, technical support, to back office operations are able to be outsourced as a way to reduce costs, keep up with the evolving consumer expectations, and drive a faster return on investment.

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Spotting Opportunities; The Startup Journey of Catherine Mandungu

The Startup Magazine

She realised the revenue operations market was booming, especially within the tech industry, and therefore wanted to explore what is largely an untapped market within the UK and Europe. RevOps, or “Revenue Operations”, is a B2B function that uses automation to help teams make the right decisions to grow their business.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Jeff Decker a Stanford social science researcher. Jeff served in the U.S.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. Turkana is home to Kakuma refugee camp, one of the largest refugee camps in the world, with over 200,000 residents and where we have been operating since October. In the U.S.,

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. And new divisions in large companies operate just like startups who get overfunded – somehow their expense budgets always equal at least their funding.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

If eliminating big office rents and the costs associated with operating in major metropolitan areas don’t equate to a significant loss in performance, why should a company spend the money? There are already a ton of great resources online for helping companies get a handle on running a remote operation. Managing to Win.