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Comment on What’s your Business Model? by Startup Business Models within the African Context | Afrinnovator

Startup Business Models within the African Context | Afrinnovator — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:55:16 +0000

[...] evening, Afrinnovator will be hosting a Startup-focused event titled “What’s your Business Model?“. Last month we held an event that brought together several seed funds and VCs for a panel [...]

Comment on Toffene Kama: Startup Founder, Tech Entrepreneur and Passionate about Africa by Will Mutua

Will Mutua — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:36:29 +0000

Glad you found it useful, Arthur

Comment on Are you a “Growth Masai”?… Key skill gap in Africa Technology Startups by Will Mutua

Will Mutua — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:36:10 +0000

Thanks, Mbugua!

Comment on Toffene Kama: Startup Founder, Tech Entrepreneur and Passionate about Africa by Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:04:35 +0000

Thank you for that intresting and educative article. Got some pointers that will def come in handy.

Comment on Are you a “Growth Masai”?… Key skill gap in Africa Technology Startups by Week starting 30 April 2012 « marketing engineer

Week starting 30 April 2012 « marketing engineer — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:49:58 +0000

[...] @Mbwana’s @Afrinnovator article: Growth Masai Key Skills Gap in Africa Technology Startups where he mentions the systems thinking approach again. Mbwana also mentions the Growth Hacker, [...]

Comment on Are you a “Growth Masai”?… Key skill gap in Africa Technology Startups by Mbugua Njihia

Mbugua Njihia — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:07:26 +0000

Excellent piece!

Comment on Are you a “Growth Masai”?… Key skill gap in Africa Technology Startups by Toffene Kama: Startup Founder, Tech Entrepreneur and Passionate about Africa | Afrinnovator

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:06:17 +0000

[...] Toffene set about building Willstream largely leveraging his past experience in the mobile and mobile payments world (Toffene has experience working for companies such as Redknee and Alcatel-Lucent), even getting people he had worked with before to build his company. One key area is product development. Toffene emphasized the importance of getting great people on board and a huge focus on product development. [...]

Comment on Does the “Copy to/Clone…” Strategy work in Africa? by Are you a “Growth Masai”?… Key skill gap in Africa Technology Startups | Afrinnovator

Fri, 04 May 2012 11:02:20 +0000

[...] a previous post I highlighted the pitfalls of adopting a copy to/clone strategy for building a startup without revisiting the market and customer assumptions. The same applies for [...]

Comment on Does the “Copy to/Clone…” Strategy work in Africa? by Ebot Tabi

Ebot Tabi — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:17:57 +0000

great article, really informative

Comment on Does the “Copy to/Clone…” Strategy work in Africa? by Africa: Does Copy/Clone Strategy Work in Africa? · Global Voices

Africa: Does Copy/Clone Strategy Work in Africa? · Global Voices — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:29:27 +0000

[...] Ally wonders whether copy/clone strategy works in Africa: “Every so often I hear venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley ask a [...]