Greetings Rare Ones,
To new readers this is the Rare Birds Emerging Market Podcast Newsletter. Each week I send out this long form newsletter to our community of Rare Ones as I have conversations with entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders and investors from across emerging markets. This long form newsletter is a deep dive into one or several themes discussed in the podcast episode. Before we begin, don’t forget to subscribe and share this newsletter with your friends and remind them to tell their friends too.
In addition, each Sunday I send out the Sunday News! It is an action packed news breakdown of the best curation of blockchain news and blockchain podcasts from across emerging markets. Here is a snippet.
Blockchain News
Blockchain Podcasts
In the meantime here is a look at My Sunday Seven’s from this weeks Sunday News.
💡My Podcast Listens 🌱
I have been listening in to the latest episodes of Let's Start Now Podcast. This is a podcast hosted by Ishimwe Marie- Laure and Mutesi Patience. Their goal is to share African startup stories to inspire, inform, and educate!
In their most recent episode they spoke with Zambian Dominic Kapalu, the Founder of Edupay Group Limited, a startup which provides micro credit to support families in paying for tuition fees.
You can start by listening here. Past episodes include:
Waste Collection Made Easier Through Technology
Buying Insurance with Bismart
Skills Development with Bag Innovation
💡My Recent Discoveries 🌱
Emerging World Tribune by Afshin Molavi
MushNet by Steve Mushero
Meet the Leader: A Podcast from The World Economic Forum
💡My Tweet🌱
I recently retweeted:
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"Real Time Retail is one of my favorite new ecommerce models coming out of Asia, along with Shopatainment. This business model couldn't come sooner for GenZ. I’m psyched to see more companies adopt the learnings worldwide. So what exactly is it? A thread: "
visit @conniechan for more….
💡My Question🌱
"How do we create innovative thinkers?"
This is the question I am pondering this week. After my conversation with Jahannie regarding innovation, education and technology in Puerto Rico I started pondering how do we build the innovators of the future!
This is the question I am pondering this week.
💡My Watch🌱
This week I have been watching The European Blockchain Conference.
The EBC Virtual is a comprehensive one-week event filled with inspiring keynotes, panel discussions, workshops, one-to-one meetings and high-level networking.
💡My Reads🌱
I have been reading a few things this week.
How dApps differ from traditional Apps.
"Decentralized applications, also known as dApps, are a new type of software application, or you can say they are digital applications that, instead of running on a single computer, run on a peer-to-peer blockchain network. " You can get it here.
Did you know there were: The New Seven Wonders of the World ? They include places like Colombia and this one in Sri Lanka.
"An ancient palace hewed into an ethereal rock mound at the behest of King Kashyapa in the fifth century A.D., Sigiriya is the perfect amalgam of human-made treasure and natural wonder. Nicknamed Lion Rock—a reference to the paws sculpted into the base of the 660-foot-tall stone—it includes elaborate cisterns and gardens, frescoed caves, and a winding stairway to the crowning citadel."
💡My Meanderings🌱
I will be attending Africa Blockchain Week in Morocco (virtually of course)!
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Next week I will share newsletter #177 & #178. In the meantime a quick recap of all the episodes. Happy Listening!
Episode 170 Tech for Everyday People with Fabian Velez Vicente
Episode 171 Building an App for Book Lovers with Lincy Ayala, CEO & CoFounder of BookSloth
Episode 172 Investing in Yourself to Add Value to Your Business with Perla Sofia Curbelo
Episode 173 Building The Largest Catalogue of Online Products to Serve the Latin American Diaspora with Alan Taveras-Sepulveda
Episode 174: Encouraging Entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico with Gustavo Diaz
Episode 175: Venture Capital in Puerto Rico with Jennifer P. Hopp, Managing Partner at ATO Ventures
Episode 176: Erica Reyes, Founder of Puerto Rico’s First School of Coffee and Barristas
Episode 177: Meet Jahannie Torres-Rodriguez, the Engineer & Entrepreneur Creating Tech with Purpose
Episode 178 Building Global Startup Accelerators that Create Impact with Sebastian Vidal