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Baraza Media Lab Nakuru turns 1🎊
70+ events later, we are still building a creative and media ecosystem in Nakuru.

To mark it: a 3 day creative market: filmmakers, media, visual & performance artists all in one space.

Come be part of it.
📍 Baraza Media Lab Nakuru
📅 Thursday 6th - Saturday 8th August, 2026
Rsvp here: https://t.co/WjShEYkEPZ

#NakuruMarketDay #BarazaInNakuru

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Two days to go till we bring Nairobi’s creative community together for CREATIVE CONNECT - a celebration of artistic expression in all its forms.

From spoken word to live music, from photography to film, to dance, and from digital art to the TikTok community - we’re creating a space for everyone to showcase their craft, exchange ideas, and collaborate.

Expect a day full of energy, connection, and creativity, where every story matters and every voice has a place.

Register here: https://t.co/Ks9XBB6fcr

📍 Baraza Media Lab – Industrial Area
🗓️ Friday, 24th October | 1:00pm – 7:00pm

Come ready to experience, create, and connect.
#CreativeConnect #BarazaMediaLabIndustrialArea #NairobiCreatives #CreativeCommunity

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Calling all creatives, storytellers, and digital dynamos across Africa!

The latest drop from the #BarazaOpportunityBoard is HERE — loaded with exciting roles and career-launching opportunities tailored just for you.

Whether you’re building your path in media, marketing, comms, or creative production, there’s something waiting to spark your next move.

This week’s newsletter features a Graphic Designer Job Opportunity by Flair Creative Studio, a Female Photographer Job Opportunity by Famous Studios, a Brand Marketing Manager Job Opportunity by Sheer Logic,a Cultural Heritage Grant Application Funding Opportunity by Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health and much more. and much more.
...and that’s just the beginning!

Ready to level up your career in 2025?
Tap https://t.co/G8jFrlSEW0 for the full lineup of fellowships, grants, residencies, and job openings.

Let’s turn your passion into your profession this year!

[Baraza Media Lab @BarazaLab]

Calling all creatives, storytellers, and digital dynamos across Africa!

The latest drop from the #BarazaOpportunityBoard is HERE — loaded with exciting roles and career-launching opportunities tailored just for you.

Whether you’re building your path in media, marketing, comms, or creative production, there’s something waiting to spark your next move.

This week’s newsletter features a Graphic Designer Job Opportunity by Emerge Egress Consulting, a Hostile Environment and First Aid Training Opportunity by Acos Alliance, an Intership Opportunity at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation , a music Training Opportunity by The Art of Music Foundation, a Social Media Intern Opportunity by Squareroot Communications and much more.
...and that’s just the beginning!

Ready to level up your career in 2025?
Tap https://t.co/G8jFrlSEW0 for the full lineup of fellowships, grants, residencies, and job openings.

Let’s turn your passion into your profession this year!

[HEVA Fund @HEVAFund]

🎉 Big News for Creatives in Kenya! 🎨🎶🎬

Today, HEVA Fund, together with our partners, an audience of creatives, media & key industry shapers, launched a one-of-a-kind investment into 2 financial facilities of $5 million, providing much-needed financial solutions to creatives.

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16 years ago today, Satoshi released the #Bitcoin whitepaper.

What a legend! 🙌

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🚨Litecoin's Circulating Supply hits 75,000,000!🚨

With exactly 9 million remaining to be mined! Because the maximum number of coins that will ever exist in #Litecoin's lifetime is 84,000,000 $LTC ⚡️

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s process for expanding into new products like Kindle and AWS

“I would definitely advise a small startup company to be as narrow and as focused as is possible to be. If you look at the original Amazon business plan, there was no hint of anything other than books in it… I wanted to build an online bookstore, and that was it.”

But the online bookstore worked better than they thought it would. So Amazon launched music, and that worked better than they thought. Then video, and that worked too. So Jeff sent an email to customers:

“I picked about 1,000 customers and I said, besides the things we sell today - books, music, and video - what would you like to see us sell? And the list came back incredibly long-tailed… So it’s been kind of one foot in front of the other.”

As Jeff explains, Amazon expands into new businesses in two ways:

“One is from a customer need. We will work from a customer need to the skills that we need. And the other one is skills forward: from a skillset we have to a new set of customers.”

Kindle is an example of a customer need - Amazon had no hardware team at the time, but to make sure they didn’t miss the transition to ebooks, they built one.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an example of skills-forward:

“We had probably more distributed computing expertise than anybody else in the world because of transactions. Transaction systems are so complicated and hard to build, and we had a service-oriented architecture of great complexity - probably before anybody else. Because we were doing that, we could see the future a little bit and decided to build AWS, which has turned into a huge business in its own right.”

Jeff concludes:

“Business is very situational. Rules of thumb are good, but they have to be applied to the right situation. Sometimes the old maxim that you should stick to the knitting is correct, but sometimes it’s wrong. And a senior leader’s job is to figure out: Which situation are you in?”

Video Source: @BusinessInsider

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JUST IN: 🇪🇺 Mastercard launches euro non-custodial #Bitcoin and crypto debit card.

They have over 100 MILLION merchants 🚀

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The email that started a revolution. #Bitcoin

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Paul Graham: “Neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg knew how big their companies would get”

“All they knew was that they were onto something… Maybe it’s a bad idea to have really big ambitions initially, because the bigger your ambitions, the longer they’re going to take to realize and the long you’re projecting into the future, the more likely you’re going to be wrong… I think the best way to do these big ideas is not to try and identify a precise point in the future and say, ‘How do I get from here to there?’ Like the popular image of a visionary. I think a better model is Columbus who thought there was something to the West—I’ll sail westward. Start with something that works, that you know works, that’s small, and then when the opportunity comes to move, move westward. The popular image of a visionary is someone with a very precise view of the future, but empirically it’s probably better to have a blurry one.”

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