…when you sell your car, become older and think “Ok, I am old enough for this kind of….embarrassment?”, want to save the environment and eventually cough up 10,- EUR on a trolley for your sato shopping needs:

We called her “Audrey”.
Soweit ist es jetzt also schon gekommen.

Back in 1998 when a group of two friends and I applied for venture capital for a smart mobile phone-related web project*, we were told that VCs in the US would normally finance 100 projects and call it a success if 10 out of 100 would take off. Contrary to that, this “success rate” was [...]

This (quote from an article by Rebecca on the new M-Pesa online payment gateway):

Intellectual property is another challenge identified by Mulamba, where software developers who work for a company realize they can offer similar services.
“Safeguarding intellectual property is a challenge; people thrive on stealing other people’s ideas and that is why there is a high [...]

A short tweet by fellow blogger Sascha Lobo brought me to smava.de and to the question if smava could also work in a country like Kenya?
In other words: do we have to leave this interesting market to the big players only - who are good at targeting Kenyans abroad (~ trips from StanChan & Equity [...]

Just a short note to let you know of “Africa Investment Day” on December 11th 2007 @ Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 09:00 am - 06:00 pm. (PDF)