Caveat: My boyfriend is the CEO and I am an investor in Aardvark.  Having said that, I have frustrated him to no end with my (hopefully constructive) criticism from the beginning ;).

There are a total of 3.5+B mobile and 1.6B Internet users worldwide.  These two numbers used to get us very excited about mobile opportunities at Google, especially in the Asia Pacific and Latin America team where I did strategy for two years.

But the fact of the matter is the vast majority of mobile phones are not...
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I'm just finishing up my first year of a two year master's degree in public administration and international development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.  Though it has its faults, I feel pretty strongly that it's one of, if not the best, programs in international development out there.

Caveat:  that statement only applies if you are a very quantitative and analytical person (I studied physics and engineering once upon a time).  If you don't like math, I promise you will hate th...
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