ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

And it was really cool to see a company from Tanzania. Next Taha Jiwaji of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, gave us an interesting snapshot of some opportunities opening up in Africa. I liked all of the companies that were presented at this week's roundtable. I LOVE the international nature of the 1M/1M initiative. Don't spray and pray!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2019

by Vella Mbenna, author of “ Muddy Roads Blue Skies: My Journey to the Foreign Service, From the Rural South to Tanzania and Beyond “ Have you fallen into a routine of drudgery? Do you feel stuck there? You’re not alone.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. My 3G connection in Tanzania is better than what I get in San Francisco. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners. Over the years, we’ve been personally involved in a number of projects, such as protecting the Anchor River in Anchor Point, Alaska (the town Amy grew up in until she was eight.)

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2014

He was joking, of course—your employees aren’t a bunch of animals struggling for survival at a watering hole in Tanzania—but they sure will act like it sometimes. As I got busy running my businesses, I forgot all about Serengeti Management—for a while.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. My 3G connection in Tanzania is better than what I get in San Francisco. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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Africa Tanzania San Francisco Silicon Valley 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2014

When I was in high school, my friends and I set up a giving tree outside the school library, as a fundraiser for the Harambee Centre, an organization which provides, among other things, ambulatory services; and which builds schools for children in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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VC Cafe

JULY 31, 2017

We’re now over 500 strong, and have raised over $500,000 which were used to build 6 schools, 14 libraries and 300 scholarships for girls in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam and Tanzania. A community forms around a common goal. Great movements must have a broad human appeal.

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Babbling VC

APRIL 28, 2019

I couldn't care less whether you're in the office or working from Tanzania. At the same time, we want to be able to trust our teams blindly and let them learn by making mistakes if necessary. . We also don't adhere to conventional work environments.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 22, 2013

While living my personal Dream to Summit Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania we took the website live, literally as I was hiking up the mountain. What’s the craziest story you have from starting your own business? I performed my first public “check off” of a TripBucket Dream to Facebook just after our party reached the summit.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I have spent a lot of time thinking about aid to developing nations, especially after my summer working on a UNIDO (United Nations Development Organization) project in Tanzania training women entrepreneurs. I was based in Dar es Salaam and saw two aid vehicles for every car on the road.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

My parents, who were both born and raised in different parts of Tanzania, were determined to show us the material poverty (and outsized generosity) of people on our first trip to India.

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Silicon Valley Tanzania New Jersey United States 40

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

In Kenya and Tanzania, over 25 million people use the M-Pesa mobile payments platform, operated by Safaricom and Vodacom, with money sent via text message. It is being impacted by the growth in mobile network operators and mobile payment platforms, not classified as deposit-taking institutions, who are acting as banking agents.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Whereas, Tanzania, which is another neighbor of Kenya, did not apply hammer and very few people hear about this, because the official data does not show deaths and cases and all that thing, all that stuff, but anecdotal evidence shows a collapsed healthcare system and people dying on the streets. billion people?

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