Latest Leardership Podcast Episodes
Debrief - Creating New Markets Through Innovation - with Bradley Britter
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - June 18, 2021 13:00 - 17 minutesJason, Gerald and Marc share their insights about Bradley Britter's interview. A short and condensed view about the interview you can still listen here.
Creating New Markets Through Innovation - with Bradley Britter
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - June 14, 2021 14:00 - 33 minutesAs it happens, Bradley did know what to purchase as a gift for a birthday. The solution? Create a company that would bring a solution. The idea of Gift.mu was born. In this episode, Bradley Britter, CEO and founder of Gift.mu walks us in the creation process of Gift.mu. He shares his failures, ...
Debrief - Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem - With Shubhda Gujadhur
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - June 10, 2021 15:00 - 11 minutesJason, Gerald and Marc go back to their key takeaways from Shubdha Gujadhur's interview on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. A great way to get the key elements in a "de"brief way. But, we recommend you also listen to the complete episode, just go there.
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem - With Shubhda Gujadhur
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - June 07, 2021 14:00 - 28 minutesAs per Wikipedia, a startup ecosystem is formed by people, startups in their various stages and various types of organizations in a location (physical or virtual), interacting as a system to create and scale new startup companies. When you create a company, you quickly realize the importance of ...
Debrief - Where's The Funding - With Michelle McKenzie
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - June 03, 2021 13:00 - 20 minutesWhere Jason, Gerald and I come back on Michelle's episode about Where's the Funding podcast and the aGazella web site for entrepreneurs. For the full interview episode, just go there.
Where's The Funding - With Michelle McKenzie
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - May 31, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutesFunding is a requirement for any company. But how do you get beyond the triple Fs, Family, Friends and Fools, without giving equity to a business angel or a VC? In this episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Michelle McKenzie who spent her career providing funding to startups and SMEs. Michel...
Debrief Episode - The 3D printing opportunity in Africa, and many others - with Petra Rees
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - May 27, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutesWhere Jason, Gerald and I come back on Petra's episode about 3D printing opportunities, pivoting and keeping you ears open for new opportunities. For the full interview episode, just go there.
The 3D printing opportunity in Africa, and many others - with Petra Rees
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - May 24, 2021 03:00 - 37 minutes3D printing is changing many industries and will continue in the future: from spare parts to building, almost everything can be printed. Before you can print anything in 3D, you need to prepare the part you want to print. And this forces you to think in 3D. With her experience as a mother who w...
Debrief Episode - Are you a multipotentialite - With Natacha Emilien
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - May 20, 2021 15:00 - 11 minutesWhere Jason, Gerald and I come back on Natacha's episode about multipotentialites. For the full interview episode, just go there.
Are you a multipotentialite - With Natacha Emilien
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - May 17, 2021 16:00 - 28 minutesIf you have no idea of what multipotentiality is about, then this episode has been recorded for you. Natacha Emilien, the MD of Red Dot is one of those people, called multipotentialite. We can think they are jack-of-all-trades, however, it's wrong. As the saying goes, Jack of all trades, master...
Our Founders Series - Starting a Podcast
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - May 10, 2021 17:00 - 35 minutesIf there are dozens of blog posts, articles and videos on how to start a podcast, there are few looking back at the learning about starting one. After a year of recording, editing and publishing podcasts, our 52nd episode seemed the right moment to stop and reflect. In this special episode, the...
Our Founders Series - Startup as a Side Hustle - With Jason Delorie
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - May 03, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutesWith 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 ...
The Founders Series - The Human Side of Entrepreneurship - With Gerald Ami
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - April 29, 2021 15:00 - 34 minutesToday, 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...
Our Founders Series - The Human Side of Entrepreneurship - With Gerald Ami
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - April 29, 2021 15:00 - 34 minutesToday, 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...
Our Founders Series - Funding in Africa - With Marc Israel
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - April 26, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutesWhatever 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 Investor...
Debrief Episode - Art Tech – With Alexia Walker and Karabo Morule
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - April 22, 2021 03:00 - 18 minutesHere's Gerald, Jason, and Marc's key takeaways from the Alexia and Karabo's interview about Capital Art and Artech. You can find the full episode here or on your favorite podcast player.
Art Tech - With Alexia Walker and Karabo Morule
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - April 19, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutesWe 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 further away from computer technology than art, you might ...
Debrief Episode - Conversational Artificial Intelligence - with Antoine Paillusseau
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - April 15, 2021 03:00 - 16 minutesIn this sequel episode of Antoine Paillusseau's, Jason and Marc debrief about their key insights and take-aways. We continue this new series of debriefs episode, so listeners can have their dose of Entrepreneurs Talk Africa in shorter versions, but keeping the soul of what makes the podcast dif...
Conversational Artificial Intelligence - with Antoine Paillusseau
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - April 12, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutesThe 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. FinChatBot, the company co-cr...
Debrief Episode - The future of African Public Transportation - With Mary Mwangi
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - April 08, 2021 15:00 - 15 minutesIn this sequel episode of Mary Mwangi's, Jason and Marc debrief about their key insights and take-aways. We inaugurate a new series of debriefs episode, so listeners can have their dose of Entrepreneurs Talk Africa in shorter versions, but keeping the soul of what makes the podcast different fr...
The future of African Public Transportation - With Mary Mwangi
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - April 05, 2021 14:00 - 23 minutesIf 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...
Scaling in Africa - With Gabriel Delerue
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - March 29, 2021 03:00 - 32 minutesCan 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 f...
African Products - With Madvee Muthu
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - March 22, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes"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 Fello...
African Diaspora - With Stephano Rose
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - March 15, 2021 02:00 - 1 hourTaking 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. With no money, he managed to create Nexavenu and become a successful entrepreneur. But not in his home country, but in the land down under, Au...
Payment Systems - With Sebastien Le Blanc
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - March 08, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutesAnyone 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 Se...
SMEs in Africa - With Guy Daines, a.k.a. Silverfox
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - March 01, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutesOriginally from Zimbabwe, Guy Daines is an ex-banker turned entrepreneur and coach. In this episode, Guy shares his years of experience as an entrepreneur and business strategist. From early stage ventures to long-term strategies, from simple successes to failures, Guy distills his unique wisdom...
Edtech - With Jade Li from Katapult
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - February 22, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutesEducation is one of those industries that require a total revamping. Jade Li founded Katapult to tackle the issue of STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) and bring a fresh approach to education. In this episode, Jade walks us through her company, Katapult, uniq...
Angel Investors - with Abu Cassim
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - February 15, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutesMoney is a crucial part of any company, but probably even more for startups who generally start their operations on a shoestring. In this episode, we discuss with Abu Cassim, founder and CEO of Jozi Angels, a business angel organization in Johannesburg, South Africa. Abu has invested in dozens ...
Entrepreneurship and Leadership Education - With Lucy Scott
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - February 09, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourAre you born an entrepreneur, can we learn entrepreneurship or are we made entrepreneurs? To answer this question, we welcome a young professional who is in charge of the student venture project at the African Leadership University in Mauritius. Coming from a liberal art and alternative educatio...
Coaching - With Chris Suzdak
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - February 02, 2021 03:00 - 56 minutesIf you ever had a coach, be it a professional or life one, you probably know how valuable his or her sessions were to you. Generally, most of us are skeptic about coaches until you meet a real life-changing one. Then you become afficionado. Our guest today had a few coaches that really made a di...
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