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Crowdlending - With Paul Perrier
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - January 25, 2021 03:00 - 56 minutesWhen, as an entrepreneur, you need money, you know have multiple options without requiring to go through the classical banking system. One of them that is available to businesses and individuals is crowdlending or peer-to-peer lending. In this episode, we have the pleasure to interview Paul Perr...
Let's talk Fintech - With Michal Szymanski
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - January 18, 2021 03:00 - 51 minutesFintech is one of those buzz words that everyone has heard one day or another. A couple of years ago, Mauritius founded the Mauritius Africa Fintch Hub and hired Michal Szymanski to lead the organization. Michal has been in a startup ecosystem for a while and "speaks" fintech, blockchain and p...
Scaling and Growth - With San Bhaskaran
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - January 11, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes"The great danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." –Michelangelo In this episode, we welcome San Bhaskaran, the CEO and founder of Upilot.com, an innovative CRM aimed at changing the CRM landscape. Se...
Xmas Bazaar - With Gerald, Jason and Marc
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - December 24, 2020 09:00 - 7 minutesWe wanted to end this short season with our thoughts, about the bazaar and our MVP approach to interviews, as well as our key insights. Stopping, thinking and reflecting about what happened is a nice way to learn and improve. In this final (and special episode), you will hear from the three of ...
Xmas Bazaar - With Xavier from MIPS
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - December 24, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutesOne key element of any ecommerce web site is its payment page. One key element of any retailers is its card payment system. But cards are no longer this only digital payment way. Phones are getting ubiquitous in this space. Based on this, MIPS, Multiple Internet Payment Systems, was created to f...
Xmas Bazaar - With Ruben from Junkart Creation
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - December 23, 2020 13:00 - 4 minutesThis episode is somehow different from others. It's the first time we welcome a "builder" in Entrepreneurs Talk Africa. Ruben loves music and recycling objects into musical instruments. He transformed his passion into a side hustle, that he's sharing with us today. It's a little bit unusual int...
Xmas Bazaar - With Jade from Katapult
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - December 23, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutesHow to have more kids interested by STEM, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics? Jade wanted to provide an answer to this question to be able to transmit her passion for STEM. What did she do? She created Katapult, a company aimed at having kids play with STEM to make them love STEM. Th...
Xmas Bazaar - With Shamir from AVR Plato Technologies
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - December 22, 2020 13:00 - 13 minutesIn this second episode of the Xmas Bazaar short series, we welcome Shamir, co-founder of AVR Plato, a startup focused on augmented reality technology and editor of AR Games. Shamir explains what AVR Plato was founded, his challenges and difficulties as a startuper, and how he overcame and got st...
Xmas Bazaar - With Hisham from Met Enn Koste
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - December 22, 2020 03:00 - 7 minutesWe inaugurate this short series with Hisham, co-founder of Met Enn Koste, a Mauritian Startup. Because they were an online service, they got turned down by Xmas market organizers. This did not get them down, instead they decided to create their own, the Met Enn Koste Xmas Bazaar. We hear right...
Impact Investing - With Marie Espitalier Noël
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - December 14, 2020 03:00 - 53 minutesAs her LinkedIn profile says, Marie Espitalier Noël is passionate about sustainability, she believes in a new form of business model which reconciles profit and impact optimization. Leading Inco in Australia after working in Mauritius and Reunion, Marie is focusing on making a difference in peop...
Geo Expansion - With Adefolu Majekodunmi
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - December 07, 2020 03:00 - 49 minutesToday, we step into business expansion and particularly geo expansion, by welcoming Adefolu Majekodunmi, co-founder and managing director of Asseco Nigeria, co-founder and non-executive director of Capricorn Digital and President of European Business Organisation Nigeria. Expanding a company ge...
Tech Impact on Smart Cities - With Gaetan Siew
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - November 30, 2020 03:00 - 51 minutesThis episode is a little bit special. We are honored and humbled to host Gaetan Siew. World citizen, Gaetan Siew’s leadership and his vision of a world of sharing allows him to mobilize and inspire political and business leaders around a creative consensus unleashing the full potential of our r...
Talent Management - With Eric Van Gils
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - November 23, 2020 03:00 - 52 minutesAttracting and retaining talent are jobs in themselves, especially for startups and small entreprises. In this episode, we have a the pleasure to welcome Eric Van Gils, Partner at Holbourne Advisory, an Africa focused Executive Search firm. After a career in Finance, Eric decided his passion for...
Startups and Big Tech - With Yvonne Bettkober
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - November 16, 2020 03:00 - 45 minutesIn this episode, we welcome Yvonne Bettkober, from Cameroon, who is the General Manager of Amazon Web Services Switzerland. We cannot but think about all the young professionals in Africa who dream about having a great career in tech and drive their own success! Yvonne is a real role model! Yvo...
Lead Conversion - With Berty Tonta
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - November 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hourA Sales-Driven Digital Marketer Berty is the founder of Leadstalk Digital, a consultancy firm specialised in sales-driven digital marketing strategies. Passionate about Marketing and Technology, he had the chance to have a 20-year career that embraced both. His track record includes the implem...
Unleashing Growth - With Raghav Hunasgi
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - November 02, 2020 15:00 - 45 minutesThis is episode focuses on growth and how to unleash it. Every startuper and entrepreneur wants to grow his/her business, us at Entrepreneurs Talk Africa included. But how do you do it? We had to ask somebody who did it, not only once, but multiple times. We had the pleasure to discuss growth an...
Innovation in Africa - With Emmanuel Gamor
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - October 26, 2020 03:00 - 49 minutesHis love for the arts and his passion for story telling has always been his motivation and influenced his decision to divert from political science to pursue journalism. The constant interaction with individuals from various countries and cultures have shaped how he views the world and has great...
The Importance of Coherence - With Coralie Marti
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - October 19, 2020 03:00 - 49 minutesPivoting is an important aspect of any venture. We start with an idea and then a few weeks of months later, we find our market and pivot. In this episode, young entrepreneur Coralie Marti, from Gemstone, walks us through her entrepreneurship journey and focus on coherence. Coralie goes back mem...
Being a Shapeshifter - With Ruth Kamau
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - October 12, 2020 03:00 - 43 minutesEntrepreneurs Talk Africa had the pleasure of interviewing Ruth Kamau, Co-Owner and Managing Director of a Pan African feel boutique house, iKhaya Lodge & Conference Centre, in the heart of Cape Town. She is also a director and advisor on several boards, an award winning playwright and novelist,...
Launching a Fintech Startup in Africa - With Justin Lock
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - October 06, 2020 03:00 - 47 minutesTake a young business school graduate from Cameroon. The logic would be to get a job in a big firm and strike a great career. But this was not the calling of Justin Lock. During his studies, Justin saw an opportunity in disrupting the remittance space that was clogged with few actors and high fe...
Discovering the African Funding Ecosystem - With Eric Osiakwan
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - September 28, 2020 03:00 - 54 minutesEric Osiakwan, Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital is an Entrepreneur and Investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across Africa and the world. He has worked in 32 African countries setting up ISPs, ISPAs, IXPs and high-tech startups. He Co-Founded Angel Africa List, Angel Fair Africa an...
Discovering the African Funding Ecosystem - With Eric Osiakwan
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - September 28, 2020 03:00 - 54 minutesEric Osiakwan, Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital is an Entrepreneur and Investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across Africa and the world. He has worked in 32 African countries setting up ISPs, ISPAs, IXPs and high-tech startups. He Co-Founded Angel Africa List, Angel Fair Africa an...
How to Successfully Raise Money - With Alexandra Fraser
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - September 21, 2020 15:00 - 42 minutesEver heard the term "investment ready"? Well, if you aspire to raise some funding for your startup/venture, you'd better be investment ready. We tend to think money is lacking in Africa, compared to Europe, the US or Asia. But no, money is there, available... In this episode, Alexandra Fraser, ...
How To Strive as a Small Fish In a Big Pond - With Djiba Diallo
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - September 14, 2020 03:00 - 45 minutesDjiba is currently a Senior FinTech Advisor at Ecobank Transnational. Before joining Ecobank, Djiba worked at Microsoft for over 10 years, as Developer and Platform Evangelist and then Head of Innovation Microsoft4Afrika, where she helped built the strategy to Identify and attract most successfu...
How To Be a Small Fish In a Big Pond - With Djiba Diallo
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - September 14, 2020 03:00 - 45 minutesDjiba is currently a Senior FinTech Advisor at Ecobank Transnational. Before joining Ecobank, Djiba worked at Microsoft for over 10 years, as Developer and Platform Evangelist and then Head of Innovation Microsoft4Afrika, where she helped built the strategy to Identify and attract most successfu...
How To Strive as a Small Fish In a Big Pond - With Djiba Diallo
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - September 14, 2020 03:00 - 45 minutesDjiba is currently a Senior FinTech Advisor at Ecobank Transnational. Before joining Ecobank, Djiba worked at Microsoft for over 10 years, as Developer and Platform Evangelist and then Head of Innovation Microsoft4Afrika, where she helped built the strategy to Identify and attract most successfu...
Businesses and Governments in Africa, a necessary relationship - With Al Kags
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - September 07, 2020 03:00 - 51 minutesAl Kags is a marketing and communications expert, serial entrepreneur and consummate champion of government openness through data. His life embodies ‘big picture thinking’ and living for a higher purpose. Al is the co-founder and the CEO of the Open Institute, an African organisation that works...
Unleashing Succesful African Startups - With McKevin Ayaba
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - August 31, 2020 15:00 - 55 minutesIn this episode, we welcome and listen with fascination to McKevin Ayaba. McKevin is the CEO of “Setup a startup,” the CEO and co-founder of the “Southern Africa Startup Awards,” the Co-founder of the “House of Hope” orphanage in Cameroon and a Global Goodwill Ambassador. Add to this that he’s a...
Conditions that enable your people to deliver success - With Mark Fritz
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - August 24, 2020 15:00 - 35 minutesMark Fritz is a leadership specialist… has taught in MBA and executive education courses in business schools throughout Europe, mentors executives from across the world, and runs leadership programs for executive teams and their leaders of the future. With the experience of leading enterprise c...
Conditions That Enable Your People To Deliver Success - With Mark Fritz
Entrepreneurs Talk Africa: Uncovering the Stories of Africa's Rising Business Stars - August 24, 2020 15:00 - 35 minutesMark Fritz is a leadership specialist… has taught in MBA and executive education courses in business schools throughout Europe, mentors executives from across the world, and runs leadership programs for executive teams and their leaders of the future. With the experience of leading enterprise c...
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