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Francis Dufay on breaking down the mistrust barrier to make a success of Jumia in Cote d’Ivoire
“We're still pretty young but we've passed the 1,000 orders a month mark.”
Karim Sy on the innovative projects Jokko Labs supports and the expansion of its network
“Jokko Labs is a co-working space (franchise) that is a catalyst for innovation and social change.”
Teoman Buyan on Coca Cola’s African social media and its free Wi-Fi cooler hot-spots
“"We provide Coke W-Fi enabled coolers (in parts of Africa) where they don't have free access to the Internet."”
Sune Mushendwa, Mkito on adding an SMS music service to its downloads and its growth since launching
“"We are at around 1.2 million downloads and that's a mixture of paid and free downloads."”
Arun Nagar on Mziiki, a music and video streaming service for African content
“"We have in excess of 1,500 artists on the platform, 800 of them are exclusively licensed to Spice."”
Jo Crawshaw, Opera Software on using data compression to allow African users to view video
“"In Africa, we are now over 50 million users and that's a very significant number of our overall global total."”
Dirk de Vos on the lessons of the South African Govt’s renewables scheme for the rest of Africa
“The amount of capital you need for renewables is far less than you need for conventional energy.”
Alrick September, Techladon on the forthcoming FIFA 15 gaming tournament in Cape Town
“We're going to have the first official FIFA 2015 Techladon tournament. There will be 250 contestants in the preliminary rounds.”
Adedoyin Ogundoyin on WAGE 14, West Africa’s first computer gaming exhibition and conference
“It's showing African culture and art. We have different heroes and fairy tales...We need to get it out there to the outside world.”
Oluwadar Johnson Treseder on GE’s Garage in Lagos that’s looking for power generation solutions
“Nigeria's energy problem will not be solved by national solutions. It will be local businesses serving local communities.”
Pim de Wit on investing in African online companies without a financial track record
“The majority of the investment funds focus from US$1 million upwards. Now we stay in the area from US$50,000 to US$0.5 million. That's more dangerous because we invest in people who do not have a 3-4 year track record.”
Ulrich Stark on how broadcasters can make money on social media platform Wezwa
“We get TV shows to sign up social media platform Wezwa, users follow and we share revenue back to the content owners”
Desere Orrill, Ole! Media Group on buying likes vs real social engagement campaigns
“There will be a network where celebrity (sports) players can build their own profile and we'll offer that service to them.”
Tefo Mohapi, Lean Startup Machine on the two barriers to success in Joburg startup scene
“MIT findings: There wasn't really a hunger...the tech start-ups that they saw didn't have that extra drive to push it forward”
Emotu Balogun, Traclist on a fashion platform for small and medium sized sellers
“We've been going for close to a year and these 10,000 customers have been using us for quite a while now.”
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