Climate Change… Freshbox: Avoiding food waste at the farm 10 May 202210 May 2022 John Mbindyo is the CEO and co-founder of Freshbox, a Kenyan startup focusing on avoiding food waste in East Africa by offering affordable cooling solutions (*). What prompted you to…
Basics… Building unicorns 12 Apr 202222 Mar 2022 For early stages investments, this is more art than science, nevertheless, there are some common traits that can be easily identified for founders of startups that can go from Zero…
impinv… Omniolytics – automating poultry production best practices 1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 What prompted you to launch Omniolytics? Omniolytics(*) was launched in 2017, however, the idea was born in 2006 whilst I worked for the leading mobile operator in South Africa, Vodacom.…
Climate Change… Sustainable Agriculture 27 Apr 202123 Jan 2023 Size of the Problem Food systems: land use (mainly for agriculture), processing, packaging, shipping, and consumption, account for 25% to 33% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, food…
Basics… Average “ticket size” 14 Jul 202013 Jul 2020 I could start with, “it depends”, but I will try to give you a more straightforward answer. If you are a founder and have landed on this page, why are…
First Order Principles… Value investing in startups? 31 Mar 202031 Mar 2020 The critical question is whether value investing techniques can be applied or not to early-stage investing in startups?. The conclusion is that although you may adopt the methodology, for seed…
impinv… Preventing food waste 29 Jan 20205 Feb 2020 Ludovic Libert, Co-founder of Happy Hours Market (*) shares how to overcome the challenges of scaling up a food waste avoidance startup. Why did you start Happy Hours Market, and…
Valuation of seed stage startups 21 Jan 202017 Jan 2020 I don’t care that much about valuation, and thus pay slight attention to this parameter when deciding whether to invest or not in a startup. Apparently, I am not the…