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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

As an industry, VC essentially acts as a broker between investment banks, who can’t invest in risky startups due to laws on loan interest, and entrepreneurs who desperately need capital. Expanding tech talent. It’s an aging adage but it’s true; tech talent can increasingly be found outside of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

Kirsten Saenz Tobey : My name is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. Kristin Groos Richmond : My name is Kristin Groos Richmond. And it's, I think, especially in the tech industry, part of a very family unfriendly set of beliefs about what's important about people's whole identity and bringing that to work. Pretty soon it will be too late.

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Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to!

Occam's Razor

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). You have to solve for all of them. Free or paid.

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MicroAid: Helping Entrepreneurs Rise Out of Poverty

Up and Running

While in recent years, the rise of microloans and microcredit programs have certainly done some good, there are new ideas cropping up about ways to create sustainable change using education, business planning skills, and technology. True Experts: Work with poor families and community leaders directly.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., Business, professional, and technical services were the fifth largest U.S. Canada, England, South Korea, Japan, and Uruguay. So from 95%+ U.S.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. That’s it. That’s what we do.