With this last episode of our founders series, we go into the business life of Jason Delorie, Innovation Executive, co-founder of two startups (this podcast and Tutor Me) and recipient of the Outstanding Young Entrepreneur Award. How do you start a startup? Do you throw everything away and you go gang-ho,
Today, we explore the human side of businesses. Before being entrepreneurs, founders are humans, men and women who commit time, energy and money to create something bigger than themselves. To talk about this, we welcome one of our cofounders, Gerald Ami. Some listeners probably know that beside Entrepreneurs Talk Africa,
Whatever you want to launch, you’ll need money. But raising capital is not as easy as it seems. We touched this topic with a few business angels and venture capitalists (Impact Investing – With Marie Espitalier Noël, Discovering the African Funding Ecosystem – With Eric Osiakwan, Angel Investors – with Abu Cassim, How to
We can argue that without technology there’s no art. We need to learn how to paint to become a painter and paper to become a writer (although most writers write on a computer nowadays, but this is another story). However, there’s nothing farther away from computer technology than art, you
The world of Internet has been invaded by chatbots. There’s almost no website on the cybersphere that does not have a form of automated agent. However, once you start to chat with those agent, you quickly realize it’s a bot and it does not bring you a lot of value.
If you’ve ever been in any African metropolitan area, you’ve experienced traffic and possible public transportation. Now, if you compare this to any other metropolitan area in the US or Europe, well, there are big differences. Our discussion today with Mary Mwangi, founder of Data Integrated Ltd, focuses on African transport system
Can you launch in one African country and expand quickly in others without spending a fortune? To many, this is an almost impossible achievement. But for Gabriel Delerue, being almost impossible means there’s still a chance it’s possible. And he and his team did it with Fleeti, the company he founded, a
“Madvee Muthu is a brilliant young African economist and upcoming leader. She combines a thorough academic background with a wide ranging intellectual curiosity about things and is not afraid to ask tough questions to understand what is at the root of different issues. She was a successful Fellow among the first
Taking challenges and calculated risks have been life choices made by Stephano Rose, our guest in this episode. With no HSC, he managed to enter college and get an engineering degree. With no money, he managed to create Nexavenu and become a successful entrepreneur. But not in his home country, but in the
Anyone who has setup an e-commerce site or a retailer who wanted to use a modern payment system has faced challenges and high fees. Not counting the numerous technical issues with foreign credit cards and currencies. MIPS, Multiple Internet Payment Systems, has been created after this idea by Sebastien Le Blanc. In