Posted by Ingrid Riley on March 15th, 2010
As a tech entrepreneur, late nights can be a staple especially when you’ve just started a new project.Last week I was up and Johnathan Francis, co-founder of CaribbeanTutors.com a Facebook friend popped up and we started to chat which I’ve edited and made into an interview for the blog. Have a read.
What is CaribbeanTutors.com?
Since June 2007, CaribbeanTutors.com (the region’s first online school) has taught over 530 students in 12 Caribbean nations, with the largest enrolments coming from Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Guyana. These students are primarily 15- to 18-year-olds studying any number of up to 13 CXC (Caribbean Examinations Council) subjects.
So the conversation begins like this.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on September 11th, 2009
You’d think that at the very least they’d learn to spell your country’s name right. These forex trading companies who work so hard to help you part with your hard earned cash. I saw this ad on Facebook yesterday. Another one of those “great can’t lose offers” in forex of course. The Facebook ad reads ” Special offer for Jamaica People. Deposit $500 and trade with $100,000. Start forex trading today. Paypal or Credit Card required”. Let’s be straight up, this looks like a scam, doesn’t it? Then when I clicked on the link and it took me to a page which begins with the “success story” of a teacher, well all my low expectations were met. I decided not to put up a screen shot of that crap, it would be giving them way too much free publicity. If you see it on Facebook, click it and prepare to hurl.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 29th, 2009
At Kingston Beta last night, a bunch of us were discussing as ot what were teh chief reasons for many Caribbean startups in the Tech/Internet/Mobile space startup then stagnate.
The group agreed on these top 3:
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