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How To Save Money as an African Startup

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Jason Calacanis recently wrote a blog post entitled “How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips)” that got me thinking. Does any of this apply to my business here in Uganda? If so what and why? It turned out a lot applied. I’ve bootstrapped this company from nothing, and now I’m still [...]

Developing Innovation from Within

Monday, April 13, 2009

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Lately I’ve had the time to really catch-up and follow some great tech blogs not to mention have some great conversations with many of you. One thing I noticed which will come as no surprise is we often talk about what we don’t like about a web app and not really about what we’d like [...]

1 Online Start-Up Makes A Profit

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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Many online companies are established and gain an immense following, only later looking to capitalize on the investment. Facebook and Google were created with minimal focus on capitalizing, yet when the number of monthly uniques hit the million mark the money began to pour in through advertisements. In the 2.0 space, Twitter has become one of [...]

Interactive One is not your average start-up

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

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Smokey Fontaine, Chief Content Officer at Interactive One, describes the company as a “super start-up” in a quick interview with MarketWatch. Thanks to Theo for the heads-up on this:

Weekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008

Friday, August 1, 2008

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Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio. This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, which [...]

The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008

Sunday, July 13, 2008

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Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com

ZeeVee TV helps make HD easy with “Localcasting”

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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Start Up ZeeTV is not just another media box, or set top box maker. The start-up company just announced a box that will allow users to broadcast high-def web video and other computer content to any HDTV in the house.

Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008

Friday, July 4, 2008

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Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]

The Money Trail 6-27-2008

Friday, June 27, 2008

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San Francisco, Seesmic Says ‘Why Not?’ To $6M More Just four months after closing its Series A funding, video chat company Seesmic Inc. has raised $6 million in Series B financing from E-Bay Co Founders “Omidyar Network” and Wellington Partners. http://www.seesmic.com

THE WEEKLY MONEY TRAIL-6/20/2008

Friday, June 20, 2008

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San Francisco, Mochi Media Makes $10M To Monetize Games With plans to build out its infrastructure to meet demand from game developers for its ad platform, Mochi Media Inc. has raised a $10 million Series B round of funding. http://www.mochimedia.com New York Hanger Network Racks Up $10M More Hanger Network In-Home Media Inc., which distributes ads, coupons and promotional [...]

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