Have you seen yclist? It’s a listing of Y Combinator’s alumni; the dead ones, thriving ones, those exited and those trundling along.
What I noticed going through this list is, some of the startups on here could easily be replicated in Africa, contextualized and be executed the hell out of.
So you are probably thinking, “oh, this is just fraud, this is stealing someone else’s idea.” Well, actually, no. Nobody owns ideas, unless the idea is an invention has been patented. But even those have geographic limitations.
I’ll go right ahead and pick out four ideas on here (which definitely do not have patents on them) that should totally be cloned in Africa and immediately too:
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Have you seen yclist? It’s a listing of Y Combinator’s alumni; the dead ones, thriving ones, those exited and those trundling along.
What I noticed going through this list is, some of the startups on here could easily be replicated in Africa, contextualized and be executed the hell out of.
So you are probably thinking, “oh, this is just fraud, this is stealing someone else’s idea.” Well, actually, no. Nobody owns ideas, unless the idea is an invention has been patented. But even those have geographic limitations.
I’ll go right ahead and pick out four ideas on here (which definitely do not have patents on them) that should totally be cloned in Africa and immediately too:
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