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Our Tiendatek is featured by GSMA’s Mobile Development Initiatve 27 Mar 2013 | 09:41 pm
Our friends from the GSMA have just published a case study about Tiendatek. It covers our background, the problem we are solving and the direction we want to go forward. It is quite an honor to be fea...
Fall 2012 Newsletter 19 Dec 2012 | 11:53 pm
Introducing TiendatekData, Our Market Research Tool We have begun producing, marketing and selling market research data from our network of shopkeepers. Our shopkeepers are now registering over 75,0...
Summer 2012 Newsletter 7 Aug 2012 | 12:53 am
New Partnership with Kiva.orgWe are very excited to announce that we have a new partnership with one of the biggest names in the microfinance sector, Kiva.org. Since we are not a microfinance institut...
Our first loan on Kiva! 4 Aug 2012 | 05:25 am
One of the challenges we face while growing the network of shopkeepers is the need of our customers for financing so they can afford our product. We have made Tiendatek as cheap as possible but that’s...
Four Gaps in Social Entrepreneurship 9 Apr 2012 | 10:58 am
This post originally appeared in Echoing Green’s blog and was co-authored with Ignacio Mas. The increasing attention around social enterprises is powered by a number of mutually reinforcing global so...
A Perfect Storm for Social Enterprises? 28 Mar 2012 | 11:55 pm
The following post originally appeared in the World Bank’s blog Private Sector Development and it was co-authored withIgnacio Mas. It’s fuzzy, it’s trendy, and it’s not even clear how new the whole c...
Frogtek Ranked One of the “Hottest” Global Mobile Companies by Investors 4 Mar 2012 | 01:19 pm
We were extremely psyched to learn that we have been named one of the top 25 “hottest” mobile companies in the world by Informilo, a news site that covers tech sector developments in Europe, the Middl...
Fall 2011 Newsletter: New Partners, New Awards, New Staff 26 Jan 2012 | 01:37 am
New Strategic Partnership in Colombia We are thrilled to announce that we have signed a contract with a major new partner in Colombia. Carvajal Tecnología y Servicios is a well-known Colombian compan...
>Echoing Green opens their annual search for social entrepreneurs 28 Sep 2011 | 04:11 am
> We were very privileged to receive support from Echoing Green when Frogtek was just an idea and a basic prototype. Through them we found our first investors and also a broad community of social ent...
>Exciting video about the Vodafone Mobile Clicks award 21 Sep 2011 | 12:57 am
>We are still a bit dazed after receiving the first award at VMC, we frankly never expected to be the winners. Vodafone has gone one step further and published an exciting video about the competition ...
