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BarCamp Nairobi 2013 is almost here! 20 Aug 2013 | 01:12 pm
BarCamp is an international network of user-generated unconferences primarily focused around technology and the Web. By definition, an unconference is a participant-driven meeting that tries to avoid ...
On Startups: What exactly is a startup? (or the Startup Duck Test) 13 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of co-moderating two panels at the iHub during the monthly Nairobi Research Buzz event hosted by iHub Research and Microsoft. The theme was ‘Entrepreneurship 101′ ba...
Exploring the idea of the Creative Class in an African city: A case study of ICT professionals in Nairobi 8 Aug 2013 | 03:38 pm
Written by Lauren Rosenberg (see below for her bio) Securing urban economic growth in new economy is less dependent on access to physical resources and increasingly dependent on attracting talent who...
Musings on the on the ‘Silicon Savannah’: Past, Present & Future 23 Jul 2013 | 02:59 pm
Kenya has come to be closely associated with technology innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the area of mobile technology, raising the country’s profile internationally as one of the up-c...
Analyzing Kenya’s Laptops for Children Initiative 16 Jul 2013 | 03:15 pm
On March 4th Kenyans went to the polls to elect a new government to steer the country over the next 5 years. One of the candidates, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, who subsequently won the election with his Jubil...
Exploring an alternative model for funding Africa’s startup enterprises: Search Funds 25 Jun 2013 | 04:13 pm
It is a well-documented fact that Africa is growing at a tremendous rate and there is no day that goes by without a story about the continent’s economic rise from all major news publishers. The storie...
Critical Mass in Mobile Money: Case of Marketing and Distribution & Math in Unpacking M-Pesa’s Meteoric Rise 25 Jun 2013 | 03:12 pm
Creating a viable mobile money service is fundamentally a question of marketing (driving appropriate use cases tapping into clear customer pain points) and distribution (creating a sufficiently dense,...
How We Did It: Invested Development’s Sean Smith on Convincing Safaricom to Launch the AppWiz Challenge. 25 Jun 2013 | 02:18 pm
Editor’s Note: This post is written by Sean Smith. Sean spearheaded and will continue to lead Invested Development’s efforts in supporting the Safaricom App Wiz Challenge. In early 2012, Safaricom CE...
Investing in the Telecoms, Mobile & Broadband Markets in Somalia 31 May 2013 | 01:45 pm
FULL REPORT Somalia’s telecommunications market is unique in the world. There has been no central government since 1991 when a dictatorial regime was overthrown, but despite the anarchy that followed...
Scaling Internet-Based Startups in African Markets 3 May 2013 | 12:29 am
We’ve all heard of the idea that entrepreneurs are people who see a ‘gap’ in the market and then create a product or service to address that gap. The implication is that there’s a ready market there t...
