Sep 12, 2013

A startup accelerator for the world’s poorest

There’s an opportunity emerging that I’m compelled to explore, and I’ve written about it on Medium.

If kids in poor Ethiopian villages can teach themselves to hack a tablet in 4 months, it makes sense to support them like we do in Western startup accelerators. With mobile adoption in Asia and Africa, the timing is right. With the economic trends working in their favour, they are investible. I want to do this, and I need your help.

Read the full post on medium.com and please join the discussion on Hacker News.

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Books & collected practices

Peer Learning Is - a broad look at peer learning around the world, with a focus on practical program design
Mentor Impact - researched the practices used by the startup mentors that really make a difference
Decision Hacks - early-stage startup decisions distilled
Source Institute - open peer learning formats and ops guides, and our internal guide on decentralised teams