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Continue reading →: How does China want to take over Central Europe? Have a look at Africa — that’s their testing groundThis is a translation of an article written by polish Journalist Sylwia Czubkowska, who took her time and came to Nigeria to prepare her material. You can find the original here. First it was cheap flip-flops, then payment apps. Having already taken over African trade and industry, China is now moving into…
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Continue reading →: The New Normal: Crises don’t change the trends, they just accelerate themThis article was originally posted on VentureBurn.com (check original) Our piece of the pie is about to get much bigger. The problem is what happens to the pie. Let’s face it, for people freaking out the most, this Covid-19 is the first one in their adult business life. Financial Markets work…
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Continue reading →: What Happened to Shopping Malls in China After the Lockdown was LiftedI am looking at footfall data from January to March 2020 provided by Cosmose.ai in their newest report. Cosmose studied four first-tier cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen) and three new first-tier cities (Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Chongqing) in Mainland China, as well as Hong Kong and Macau from January 2020 to March 2020.…
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Continue reading →: Jumia —Africa’s Punching BagIt took Amazon 9 years to be profitable in the USA — the best market for e-commerce in the World. Jumia, operating in a region tougher by an order of magnitude, has a fair chance to do it in 10–12 years from launch. So why does it seem in the recent online…
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Continue reading →: How Ecommerce Behaviors Changed After UK and USA Got Used to the KnockdownI’m looking at Consumer Electronics, Groceries, Beverages, and Home and Garden in the United Kingdom and the USA. Let’s see what other markets can learn from it. Data provided by SimilarWeb. Summary: Groceries saw the biggest increase in traffic worldwide grown by 40% between January and March, home and garden were…
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Continue reading →: Which Privacy Rights Shall We Trade This Time?If watching Contagion freaked you out, then you really, really shouldn’t watch Gattaca. In this awesome movie, those with the right level of genetic purity are guaranteed dream jobs and a great standard of living. The rest, having been born with genetic defects, are pariahs living on the fringes of a society that…
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Continue reading →: Why this lockdown could be the best thing for Online Travel since the Internet.“By the end of April, the impact of the coronavirus on the (USA) industry is expected to add up to a loss of 5.9 million jobs and $910 billion in travel-related economic output. That’s seven times the impact of 9/11.” According to the U.S. Travel Association and Tourism Economics If…
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Continue reading →: Blood RiverThis is a story of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, written from the perspective of a European entrepreneur, based in Lagos, Nigeria. It’s the full 12th Chapter from my book “Chasing Black Unicorns. How building the Amazon of Africa put me on Interpol Most Wanted list.” When he came in, the whole…
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Continue reading →: Africa self-isolation and other rich man fairytales.“Let them eat brioche!”Queen of France, wife of Louis XIV Maria Theresa, after learning that peasants have no bread to eat. First, the West came up with Aid, which has proven to be probably the most damaging thing to the continent it has done to Africa after colonies. (If you’ve never…
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Continue reading →: How Lockdown Changed What We Buy Online. Overview of Trends Across Sectors.Disclaimer: Data here is based mostly on Similar Web data from the period from December 1, 2019, to 26th March 2020, including traffic to Desktop and Mobile web originating from multiple developed countries around the globe. Considering how dynamic the situation with COVID-19 is, and how unpredictable people under lockdown are, if…
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I’m Marek
Conscious Capitalist, Author of “Chasing Black Unicorns”. Born in Poland. Made in Nigeria, South Africa and the Dominican Republic. Co-founder: Jumia Travel, SunRoof, Samana Group.
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