David Cohen

MAY 16, 2014

In the first segment, Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa are featured: African entrepreneurship has really been moving forward for some time now. A while back I invested in a company called Mobius Motors , which is based in Kenya. Here’s a second segment about Kenya’s mobile money revolution. It’s great stuff.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). Jon – I used to do a lot of seed investment.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Joyce Wafukho, Kenya. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan. He now serves upwards of 100 customers a day and has done well enough to start “Gumbo Under the Bridge,” a program to feed the homeless. Likelesh Gebru, Ethiopia.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

His every move and misstep dissected and castigated by the same media and investors who sang his praises when things were going well, one can only guess at the anguish, shame and embarrassment that led the young entrepreneur into – what appeared to me as an uninformed observer – self imposed exile, in Kenya.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Note to self, this event is not for alpha products with no customers. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. Check out the twitter feed from the event. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Note to self, this event is not for alpha products with no customers. Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. Check out the twitter feed from the event. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2015

An application on top of the infrastructure that renders the complex technology behind it invisible — and only shows a seamless, magical customer experience. When I first met with founder Bill Barhydt and he described the vision, I immediately thought of M-Pesa, the mobile money network in Kenya. Today Abra launched to the world.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2015

An application on top of the infrastructure that renders the complex technology behind it invisible — and only shows a seamless, magical customer experience. When I first met with founder Bill Barhydt and he described the vision, I immediately thought of M-Pesa, the mobile money network in Kenya. Today Abra launched to the world.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In Kenya, M-Pesa processed more transactions domestically than Western Union did globally, and “ provided mobile banking facilities to more than 70 per cent of the country’s adult population” , most of whom never had banking services before. And Beyond….

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2015

Penda improves health care in Kenya. What they had to say: Koczela says that being a self-sustaining health clinic allows Penda to focus on the patients as customers, and adapt the business to their needs: “Having the patients be the ones who pay, we keep them as the voice in our heads instead of donors.”. to nine p.m.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

When I visited an organization that we work with in Kenya called Evidence Action , we visited the site in which these people were getting these chlorine water pumps and we helped fund an education around these clean water pumps. You not only bring employees, but you also bring along Janji customers, right? helping them.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We focus every day on delivering a fantastic shopping experience for our customers – fast, secure and stress-free.”. Companies will have to make drone delivery baskets that can fly around Mount Kenya, delivering and collecting a number of 20 kilo payloads as they do so. Konga is another investor darling.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. Banks have also shown that they have been unable to protect customer data while they continue to provide services irrelevant to the millennial generation.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , which finances and distributes household goods that can improve families’ quality of life in rural Kenya. It’s the same concepts as Lean Startup as get your idea out there as soon as possible and then pivot with customer reaction. Rocio Perez-Ochoa.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 20, 2015

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Like many entrepreneurs I’ve always had a strong urge to help other people, not just directly helping customers with my business, but in a broader social sense too. Donating to charities is great, but I’ve never felt.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Thus, join the ranks of Yahoo, Google, Amazon, eBay, Cisco and Microsoft and focus your limited time and resources on perfecting your customer value proposition, not on devising an ideal company name. However, your ultimate victory will be predicated upon your ability to economically deliver on the promises you make to your customers – a.k.a.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 12, 2012

So far Next Big Sound has ‘two undisclosed major record labels’ as customers for this service, making it too early to tell. Mining cellphone billing records – GigaOM describes a number of use cases for this data including helping with malaria education in Kenya. Will this idea work?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

2) Help Others & Improve Upon Customer Service. I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. I heard horror stories about how their technicians had chips on their shoulders, belittling customers with their elitist attitudes. That’s it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

We'll be your first customer." Who were your customers in those early days? And our customer base grew probably. In our case, we didn't provide lunches at this school, so coming to school with a healthy lunch. And that kind of testimonial kept coming back over and over from our friends in the education space.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. Banks have also shown that they have been unable to protect customer data while they continue to provide services irrelevant to the millennial generation.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). The mobile custom report collects three key areas of analysis. And again, a custom set of metrics.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. When I see the impact my business is having—through the accomplishments of my team members and the customers we serve—it makes all those struggles absolutely worth it, and it makes the success that much sweeter.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

M-Pesa created by mobile carrier Safaricom in Kenya is the best known example of this. Like anyone else, they are looking to own the customer data and offer smart loyalty programs. With all the press attention it has generated, it still serves only 2-3k merchants and ~200k customers. Is that it? Not really.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Tracking such revenue can be a challenge but is possible to approximate the revenue impact of PR activities via the use of unique URLs, customer surveys, etc. Any function within your startup that involves iterative learning, passion and/or close proximity to your customers should not be outsourced. Passion Cannot be Outsourced.

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