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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. The internet of everything is on its way. Turpin was named president of IMD in July 2010. This growth comes with challenges however.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

Reuben Mpunda, Tanzania. Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. 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. Marcelino Lopez, Colombia.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

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. In both Rwanda and Tanzania ministers for technology spoke about how they see technology as the future for their the economic wealth of their country. Many female entrepreneurs.

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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

His name is Tomas Pueyo. Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 And the stakes are huge, because here we're talking about Kenya and Tanzania and all these countries, but what about India, 1.2