Tag: business

What you should know about the brief wondrous career of Aaron Schock

Seven years ago, Aaron Schock was positively chipper. At 27 years old, he was the youngest representative elected to Congress — and the first congressman born in the 1980s. He wore pastel ties and overused...

/ March 18, 2015

Kibera start-ups 1.0

Thursday was mostly a repeat of Wednesday morning, so there will not be a great deal more to add. We returned to the Blue House — the popular local name for the church in Kibera...

/ October 2, 2014

Down to business… and dancing

We returned to Kibera Wednesday for the first day of the entrepreneurial training class, the part of the trip I’d been most excited about. A local Kenyan businessman and our team leader tag-teamed the morning...

/ October 1, 2014

How stupidity can be the most genius thing

The limit of stupidity as it approaches X is not genius. Groupon won yesterday. “Groupon still exists?” you ask. It most certainly does, and it just made Presidents Day way cooler than it usually is....

/ February 18, 2014