A young entrepreneur is building the Amazon of Bangladesh
At just 26, Waiz Rahim is supposed to be involved in the family business, having...
African e-commerce startup Jumia’s shares open at $14.50 in NYSE IPO
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia listed on the New York Stock...
Africa Roundup: Jumia files for IPO, OneFi acquires Amplify, FlexClub expands in Mexico
Less than a decade ago IPOs, acquisitions and global expansion by African...
Bringing affiliate marketing and outsourced customer acquisition to Brazil nets Escale $22.6 million
Despite not being Brazilian and having their first exposure to the country only...
Passbase is building a full stack identity engine with privacy baked in
Digital identity startup Passbase has bagged $600k in pre-seed funding led by a...
African e-commerce startup Jumia files for IPO on NYSE
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia filed for an IPO on the New York Stock...
Nigeria’s Gloo.ng drops consumer e-commerce, pivots to e-procurement
Nigerian startup Gloo.ng is dropping consumer online retail and pivoting to B2B...
200M people and zero Unicorns? Here’s to building the next great startup in Pakistan
The startup frenzy is real; Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad are all upwardly...
In emerging markets there are no copycats, just budding entrepreneurs
Every year I teach an MBA course at Stanford about the exciting opportunities...
Models of entrepreneurship: How we invest in humans
Today I am going to talk about how ecosystems around the world are churning out...