Jeff Bezos on pain and invention
Posted: October 24, 2008 Filed under: building ventures | Tags: inspiration, quotes, Seattle Comments Off“We are willing to plant seeds that take five to seven years to grow into reasonable things,” he said in an interview. “You can’t do big, clean-sheet invention unless you are willing to invest for long periods of time.”
- Jeff Bezos, “Amid the gloom an e-commerce war“, New York Times.
Have you seen a Bodafone?
Posted: June 22, 2008 Filed under: building ventures | Tags: Africa, Anjali, india, infrastructure, inspiration, technology, tinker 2 Comments »
Ken Banks devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world, and has spent the last 15 years working on projects in Africa.
In his essay, Mobiles in Africa: A Travellers Perspective, Ken Banks describes the entrepreneurial spirit thriving in Africa around the mobile industry,
“..Mobile phones are attached to bikes (two and three wheelers), and even boats, and taken to where the business is. In Uganda these bikes, known locally as boda boda’s, are hooked up with spare batteries and desktop mobile devices to create what are affectionately known as Bodafones”. Read the rest of this entry »
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