4 May 2017
In a break from summaries of industries in East Africa this post is a quick update about an interesting week that I’ve just spent in Sri Lanka. I was there with Hilda (founder of Pezesha, company I worked with earlier in the year) helping to represent them at a bootcamp for start ups from around […]
20 April 2017
This is the fourth in the series of posts detailing the trends and common threads that I’ve learnt through interviewing a wide range of businesses operating in East Africa. The East Africa Business Podcast is the weekly podcast that I’ve been running for the last six months. Right now we’re on episode 35 with more […]
6 April 2017
This is the third in the series of posts detailing the trends and common threads that I’ve learnt through interviewing a wide range of businesses operating in East Africa. The East Africa Business Podcast is the weekly podcast that has been running for the past six months. Right now we’re on episode 33 with more […]
23 March 2017
This is the second in the series of posts detailing the trends and common threads that I’ve learnt through interviewing a wide range of businesses operating in East Africa. The East Africa Business Podcast is the weekly podcast that I’ve been running for the last six months. Right now we’re on episode 31 with more […]
9 March 2017
This is the first of a series of posts detailing the trends and common threads that I’ve learnt through interviewing a wide range of businesses operating in East Africa. The East Africa Business Podcast is the weekly podcast that I’ve been running for the last six months. Right now we’re on episode 29 with plenty […]
9 February 2017
As I get acclimatised to what working weeks look like in Kenya this is my first attempt at a “thought piece” within the confines of a job. It’s about the internal dissonance I felt at the lack of rain in the country right now, and veers off towards using “data for good”.
26 January 2017
The next chapter in the East African business journey began on the morning of Monday 23rd January as I woke up in Nairobi and walked to “the office” to go “to work”. At the end of 2016 I concluded the tour of the East Africa region by meeting an entrepreneur named Hilda, who was introduced to […]
8 December 2016
Today I’m flying back to England to see friends and family for Christmas. This post summarises the time spent travelling between Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania as I worked out the various opportunities that existed in the region
24 November 2016
Over the past four months I’ve traveled through Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, evaluating each in terms of where I would like to live for the next few years building a business. After spending three and a half months keeping my mind open to all options (that I felt were morally acceptable), in Zanzibar I […]
27 October 2016
Safari means “to travel” in Swahili and has evolved into more or less anything where you move around to look at animals. It is a prime activity in our search for a Decent Profile Pic. Kenya is one of the international hotspots for going on safari and yet despite being here for a month I […]