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How To Build A Unicorn Startup In Africa: 5 Common Traits Billion-Dollar Companies Have

Business AdviceOctober 17, 2024301Views 0Likes 1Comment

Unicorns are privately held and usually venture capital-funded startups with a valuation of at least $1 billion. These companies are typically successful and are super rare — especially in Africa. But do you know that most companies that have journeyed from seed to unicorn share some common traits? Successful startups in Africa typically find a…

How To Achieve Product Market Fit As An African Startup: Lessons From Paystack’s Growth And Exit

Business Advice, Portfolio CompaniesOctober 10, 2024326Views 0Likes 0Comments

Product-market fit (or PMF) is crucial for any startup’s success — regardless of location. However, African startups face unique challenges (including limited access to funding and a dynamic market) that require specific approaches to achieve this important milestone. Still, it’s possible to achieve product-market fit — regardless of your business model and product. As an…

How Startup Founders can Effectively Manage Your Burn Rate

Business AdviceApril 24, 2024203Views 0Likes 0Comments

A lot has happened in the last couple of years. We've learned a lot of hard lessons. This mark is crazy. I mentioned a little bit about it in my compliance video. I want to go a little bit deeper. A few case studies from some things I've seen in the market in the last…

Traits to consider in a business partner

Business AdviceApril 24, 2024237Views 0Likes 0Comments

Today I'm going to talk about how to identify a business partner or a co-founder. The first things first, starts with self-awareness. You might be thinking “why would I focus on self-awareness when I'm trying to identify the other person?” Well, you need to identify your strengths and weaknesses. Where do your natural talents…

Supercharge your growth with double-loop learning

Business AdviceApril 24, 2024256Views 0Likes 0Comments

Double loop versus single loop learning. Hello everyone. I'm back again. So this is a concept within organizational theory. Double-loop learning is questioning the fundamentals of the way you go about doing something in your business. Single-loop learning is just tweaking the systems that currently exist to optimize. What I mean by that. And here's…

Urgent Tasks vs Important Tasks

Business AdviceApril 15, 2024262Views 0Likes 0Comments

Hello everyone. Today, I want to talk to you about a concept called the Eisenhower Matrix, TLDR - It's basically the concept that there are two types of tasks, urgent tasks and there are important tasks, and they're frequently not the same thing. Urgent tasks are the ones you wake up every day -…

How To Build A Unicorn Startup In Africa: 5 Common Traits Billion-Dollar Companies Have

How To Achieve Product Market Fit As An African Startup: Lessons From Paystack’s Growth And Exit

How Startup Founders can Effectively Manage Your Burn Rate

Traits to consider in a business partner

Supercharge your growth with double-loop learning

Urgent Tasks vs Important Tasks

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