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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Inspired in Zimbabwe The founders of Zimride were inspired by drivers in Zimbabwe, who pick up strangers and give them a lift for a few bucks. "You can see their profile on Facebook, and you can kind of tell if theyre going to be a creeper or if you have nothing in common with them." The company is applying that principle in the U.S.

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Will Bitcoin adoption be driven outside the US?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

In Zimbabwe, hyperinflation drove the US Dollar became the de facto local currency even while foreign currency trading was illegal. Inflation, and hyperinflation, is one possible driver of Bitcoin adoption in a country. When holding the local fiat currency entails losing value by the day, citizens will seek alternatives.

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Mikkel Thorup, World Traveling Expat, How To Move Offshore And Eliminate Taxes (VC EP30)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Mikkel Thorup hosts The Expat Money Show podcast (I was on episode 155) and has spent over 21 years in continual travel around the world, visiting more than 100 countries including Colombia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Iran.

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16 Powerful Tools and Services to Help Non-Marketers Grow Their Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Crowdspring’s 210,000+ designers from Australia to Zimbabwe, and everywhere in between, are standing by to help you. Answer a few questions about your design needs in crowdspring’s simple project questionnaire. The more you share, the better the results. Step 3: Crowdspring designers get to work creating dozens of designs.

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16 Powerful Tools and Services to Help Non-Marketers Grow Their Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Crowdspring’s 210,000+ designers from Australia to Zimbabwe, and everywhere in between, are standing by to help you. Answer a few questions about your design needs in crowdspring’s simple project questionnaire. The more you share, the better the results. Step 3: Crowdspring designers get to work creating dozens of designs.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s year of books: The essential points from Why Nations Fail

The Next Web

Riddle me this: Why has Botswana, a landlocked country in the south of Africa, become one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations — Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone among them — remain caught in a miasma of violence and poverty? You might chalk it… This story continues at The Next Web.

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Bitcoin: Resilience in Crisis

thebarefootvc

Those in countries that have previously experienced massive inflation (Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Argentina) or capital controls (China, India) have long seen relative value in an asset that is independent of government financial manipulation.