Looking for the best places to do business in Africa? You might start with this article on Nigerian website NigerianBulletin.com, about the top 7 business destinations in Africa. Selecting Lagos as #1 might seems biased, however as the largest city and commercial center of Africa’s No1 economy, this does not seem far stretched. Other cities […more]
GiftedMom is a project launched in Cameroon with the noble aim to reduce maternal and infant death, a problem that still subsides not only in Cameroon but in various African countries, especially in rural communities. Basically, expecting or new moms can sign up to the service through SMS and receive assistance or replies to their […more]
Just finished my Tanzanian trip and on the way back to Hong Kong. This was a short trip this time (3 nights) but enough to experience once again the activity here in Dar es Salaam. I will be posting more about specific African startups which can help readers learn more about the startup scene on […more]
As everywhere else in Africa, ecommerce is booming by leaps and bounds in Tanzania and a few websites have been able to establish their leadership in the market, either by being the first movers, or having strong (overseas) backing that allowed them to spend on marketing both online and offline. Very few Tanzanians still buy […more]
I came to know this company not because I am a big fan of food delivery, or that I have even used their services, but due to the fact that their office was just nearby mine in the Village Walk, an office building in Dar es Salaam opposite to the Seacliff Hotel. From the way […more]
I just arrived today in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on a business trip. I will take this opportunity to blog about some of the local startups and ecommerce companies. Kenya is more known in the region as a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation but there are great minds (and great investors) in Tanzania as well […more]
Another article which title says it all. While the article is mostly about the South African startup scene, I believe it applies to startups and businesses across Africa. Basically the author is advocating South African entrepreneurs not to have the startup mentality, building a company to attract VC, get higher valuations and later exit, but […more]
Yesterday I made a post about 5 leading e-travel startups in Africa. I will continue today by introducing hotels.ng, a Nigerian startup that offers hotel reservation to 14,000 hotels through its platform of the same name www.hotels.ng Hotels.ng was founded just in 2012 and it is a tremendous achievement to have reached such scale within […more]
This article on Disrupt Africa analyzes 5 leading African startups in the e-travel industry. E-travel is big business but relatively new in Africa. There is certainly a huge needs of e-travel startups to cater for the needs to locals in Africa, not just extensions of international companies offering African options to their mostly Western customer […more]
My experience as an entrepreneur has thought me that there are two options to make it big, which I refer to big ticket and big volume. Big ticket means high ticket business. Offering premium products with significant margins that allow you to be relatively successful just by selling a few of them. If you build […more]