Mobile West Africa 2014: wrap-up of Nigeria's largest tech conference
Nigeria was an obvious stop on our world tour of innovation in emerging markets. The country with the biggest population in Africa (and growing by 10m new people every year) has recently been promoted to its largest economy as well, beyond South Africa. It’s also regularly mentionned as the cultural capital of the continent, with […]
Hong Kong tech hub: where finance & manufacture turn into startups
Hong Kong is better known for its financial expertise and culture of manufacturing than its startups. However, a generation of bored bankers and veterans of the factories are becoming the first generation of tech entrepreneurs in « Asia’s New York ». What is the position of Hong Kong as an innovation ecosystem? What are the links with […]
A demo day in Nairobi, Kenya: local innovation rules
During the Afrikoin conference in Nairobi, we were lucky to attend the Demo Day of the Savannah Fund, a Kenya-based VC betting on startups all over Africa. Since a picture is often worth a thousand words, I’ll leave you to browse this Slideshare documenting the exciting ideas presented at Demo Day. Encouragingly, the startups are all focusing on local needs and […]
STARTUP WEEKEND SHIRAZ, IRAN
Unique Demographic of Participants @ Startup Weekend Shiraz, Iran At the end of October, we attended Startup Weekend Shiraz. Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past […]
Bitcoins explained at Afrikoin, Nairobi
While the hype around Bitcoin grows stronger everyday, the conference on mobile money at Afrikoin in Nairobi and a discussion with a few startups in the crypto-currency business has helped to debunk what Bitcoin is, and isn’t. In our exploration we’ve listened to and chatted with: Pelle Braendgaard, who has worked in cryptography related businesses for 9 years and is now heading Kipochi, an […]
Global Startup Youth: entrepreneurs from around the world gather to solve big problems
GSY: World’s brightest young minds gather to innovate The 4th Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which took place in Kuala Lumpur, was complemented by a host of other events to gather the many stakeholders of an innovation ecosystem. One of these events was Global Startup Youth, a 3-day program involving about 500 youths aged 18-25 from 105 countries. It was […]
Les événements et conférences du Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2013 de Kuala Lumpur
Les sujects importants du Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2013 Pour vous faire découvrir l’écosystème d’innovation de la Malaisie, voici une partie du programme que nous nous proposons de suivre et restituer, en live sur Twitter (@martpasquier, @nicolasloubet, #rockmyGES2013, #GES2013), et en léger différé pour les articles sur notre Strikingly. Nous suivrons quatre sessions dans la matinée, à […]
