A Story of 2 Entrepreneurs

In a piece on a noticeably strengthening trend in entrepreneurship.Hash profiles two notable trailblazers:

Karanja Macharia who is the founder and CEO of Mobile Planet, a mobile company in Kenya that provides third party services to both the main mobile providers and other corporate clients. They’ve been around for a number of years, Google invested in them 2 years ago, and most importantly, they’re profitable.

and:

Fritz Ekwoge the founder of iYam.mobi, he too comes from a professional background, though as a programmer and developer, not pure business. He represents a different type of entrepreneur, a younger generation that knows and cares about the web world beyond his Cameroonian borders, and tries to figure out how the two can work together....

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