Today is my last day at Yoco, almost 3 years since I jumped on board. During this period, the customer base scaled from 1000 to 35000+ merchants, from 25 to 100+ people and 1 to 3 products. Before I joined I had been doing a few different things. A few…

Running a team is a primary capability that you need to build in a growing company where you will start and run a team, then teams of teams, then teams of teams of teams…you get the picture. This is how I think about running my team at Yoco, my first…

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” - Steve Jobs Why create? There seem to be two sides to…

what? for who? compared to the others? 1. What job/s it’s doing — Clayton Christensen’s ‘job to be done’ 2. Who it is solving a problem for…it could be more than one group of people. a) described as specifically as possible, in terms of what makes them distinct from non-consumers of the product. b) it is useful to do this for different product versions (planned/historical) and different customer groups (planned/historical)

This started as a post about internet.org and Net Neutrality and got me starting to question why we are fucking up our second big chance in 100 years to make the world a whole lot better for far more people. The promise of the current technology revolution [computing + internet]…

I used to want to call myself a Social Entrepreneur — Now i realise that being able to call yourself that is something you earn through the weight of evidence. If i call myself an entrepreneur, i need to be able to prove that i am in the process of…

I’m developing a course at the moment and in module 2 we cover the realities of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets, these are some of my thoughts. For the second part of this series I’ve chosen: “The people are the most important ingredient” At a macro level, we can examine this…

I’m developing a course at the moment and in module 2 we cover the realities of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets, these are some of my thoughts. Let’s take some startup mantra’s and try to examine them at a macro-scale. …

I’m developing a course at the moment and in module 1 we cover ‘Normative Entrepreneurship’, so I was thinking about some simplifying ways of acting and thinking that are useful for entrepreneurs. …