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4 keys to international expansion

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Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. For background, Rocket Internet has helped launch some very successful businesses internationally, including HelloFresh ($12.9

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Yassir pulls in $150M for its super app, led by BOND

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The African startup, first launched in Algeria, has now raised $193.25 When CEO Noureddine Tayebi started Yassir, the plan was to build a super app that included services people — in the French-speaking Maghreb region consisting of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia — had little or no access to on one platform.

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Jumia reports 30% growth in value of goods sold on its platform during Black Friday season this year

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E-commerce in Africa is growing fast and its potential remains enormous as more people get connected to the internet. Packages handled by Jumia Logistics, its delivery business over the Black Friday season, reached 5.3 Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya account for most of the online sales on Jumia.

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Flutterwave and PayPal collaborate to allow African merchants to accept and make payments

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It is nearly impossible for businesses in some African countries to receive money from PayPal. Via this partnership, African businesses can connect with the more than 377 million PayPal accounts globally and overcome the challenges presented by the highly fragmented and complex payment and banking infrastructure on the continent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Even worse,you don’t realize how lucky one is on the US to have freedom of expression until you encounter Internet censorship and other barriers.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

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In addition to GPT-4, OpenAI recently connected ChatGPT to the internet with plugins available in alpha to users and developers on the waitlist. ChatGPT Business will follow our API’s data usage policies, which means that end users’ data won’t be used to train our models by default,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post.

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