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Lean Customer Development with Cindy Alvarez

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Feedback Driven Design with Windows 10

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Getting Started with Angular with Jeff Cross

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A new kind of commerce - M-Pesa, Mookh, and Africa

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George 'Porgie' Gachui is a co-founder at Kenyan startup Mookh. Mookh enables you to sell anything off your website or social media site and integrate the checkout system with digital wallets like M-Pesa. Is M-Pesa and wallets like it the future of commerce, not just in Africa but worldwide?

Forgotten Empires, amazing games - Age of Empires is back with Bert Beeckman

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