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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

Revolution

In a rapidly evolving business landscape, founder-market-geography fit serves as a multifaceted framework for assessing a startup’s potential. Interstate System : Atlanta is a nexus for major interstates like I-20, I-75, and I-85, allowing for efficient road transport. Louis is close to the end-users of agricultural technology.

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Norebase raises $1M to allow companies start, scale, and operate in any African country

TechCrunch

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.).

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Why regulators love Nuro’s self-driving delivery vehicles

TechCrunch

Department of Transportation, The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) “[wondered] about the description of pedestrian ‘crumple zones,’ and whether this may impact the vehicle’s crash-worthiness in the event of a vehicle-to-vehicle crash. (R2X In a 2019 letter to the U.S. ”

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Malaysia’s Mosti Prioritizes Tech Innovation and Startup Ecosystem in its Annual Budget

AsiaTechDaily

Register Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation ( Mosti ) plans to push emerging technology and promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education within the framework of Budget 2024. Minister Chang Lih Kang has outlined these focus areas in Mosti’s budgetary proposals.

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10 entrepreneurial superpowers at work in Eastern Europe

Entrepreneurs' Organization

For three weeks in March, he worked at the border, helping displaced people find shelter and transportation. Entrepreneurs are using the legal frameworks, supply chains and customs logistics once used for business to solve the refugee problem, because many of the needs are similar. He’s not working from an existing playbook.

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FSD Africa expands insurtech accelerator program to Ghana and Nigeria

TechCrunch

But the market might soon change as innovative products that run on micropayment or pay-per-use frameworks emerge under the support of institutions like the U.K.-funded Boda-bodas are a popular means of transport in East Africa, with 22 million rides served every day in Kenya alone. funded Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa.

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Labor marketplace ShiftMed secures $200M to solve nursing shortage

TechCrunch

Its mobile and cloud-based software provides perks to nurses like guaranteed shifts, instant or next-day pay, transportation via Uber Health and health benefits. ShiftMed said the new funding will be used to expand its national footprint to narrow that gap in needed personnel.