Don’t worry, I ‘validated’ it.

Hearing the phrase, “I validated it” , it makes me want to go back in time, when I started Leancamp, find myself on the streets of London, throw my younger self to the pavement in a dark Camden alley, and step on my face with a trendy leather army boot.

Do you calibrate your advice before you give it?

Comparing startup investment stacks around the world

A lot of the “ecosystem building” talk has become nonsensical. There are two fundamental mistakes policy-makers and community leaders make:

• They look at a mature ecosystem and copy the pieces now, rather than…

Meet The Africa Prize For Engineering

In the last two years, I’ve looked dead-serious in the eyes of a more than a few founders, saying “you have a billion-dollar business in your lap!”

It’s not much of leap to see the potential: already on a high-growth curve, obvious social…

‘The Netherlands has more lean startup consultants than startups’ says Brant Cooper

It’s hard for an African engineer to explain why he’s joining the labourers in the dirt.

If you’ve been lucky enough to be the one chosen among your siblings to go to school, and smart enough to win a university scholarship, and hard-working enough to turn that into a…