The Akro Podcast

This episode is part of a series of startup profiles we're doing to showcase the businesses in Akro's first township accelerator. This means that all the startups in this cohort either have a founder who grew up in, or is based in a township, or, that the startup does business within the township economy.

This time we have on Hiten Keshave the founder and CEO of Shop Online Today .

This episode is part of a series of startup profiles we're doing to showcase the businesses in Akro's first township accelerator. This means that all the startups in this cohort either have a founder who grew up in, or is based in a township, or, that the startup does business within the township economy.

This time we have on Rodney Roskruge, the CEO and founder of Khangelani Business College. 

This episode is part of a series of startup profiles we're doing to showcase the businesses in Akro's first township accelerator. This means that all the startups in this cohort either have a founder who grew up in, or is based in a township, or that the startup does business within the township economy.

This time we have on Lindelo Magubane, the CEO and Cofounder of Urban Farm KwaZulu Natal Agro.

This episode is part of a series of startup profiles we're doing to showcase the businesses in Akro's first township accelerator. This means that all the startups in this cohort either have a founder who grew up in, or is based in a township, or that the startup does business within the township economy. 

This time we have on Kanya Mtsaka and Piwe Qangule, the CEO and COO of East Jaguar International which is an award-winning call answering and telemarketing service provider. 

https://www.eastjaguar.co.za

We chat to Leonard Moliki in the first of a series of startup profiles we're doing to showcase the businesses in Akro's first Township Accelerator. This means that all the startups in this cohort either have a founder who grew up in, or is based in a township, or that the startup does business within the township economy. 

Up first we have Leonard Moliki from Faded Black Innovations.

Endeavor is like a startup accelerator, but they have a global presence and they are focused further down the line than Akro is, this means they work with small to medium-sized post-revenue businesses and they provide them with high quality mentorship from CEOs, entrepreneurs, industry experts and academics. This mentorship network helps select high-impact entrepreneurs that run potential venture-scale startups and then through a series of programmes, Endeavor quips them with the resources needed to scale.           

In this interview we cover Alison's background in INtrepreneurship and what brought her to Endeavor, what Endeavor does in depth, the spirit of mentorship in south africa, and we
end with a quickfire round of questions.

Alison's LinkedIn
Endeavor's Website

This episode, we have on Idan Jaan who is CEO and Cofounder of Fundrr. A platform that uses tech to provide easy and simple access to finance for SMEs in South Africa. The sound quality isn't our usual standard in this episode, but it's well worth sticking with, because Idan gives us a taste of what it was like to startup and get rejected by investors around 60 times, and how it isn't all rainbows and unicorns. We also go into the Dunning-Kruger Effect and how it contributed to both our developments. 

Find out more about Fundrr here: www.fundrr.co.za

Dylan Fletcher reads an article from our blog that takes you through the basics of fundraising and where to start in South Africa. 

Theo Kitshoff is a Cofounder and Head of Commercial at Sticitt, which aims to simplify financial services, from first principles i.e. from the customer need first. 

Financial Services evolved from the start around the competitive and regulatory space rather than around the actual customer need, from first principles, as Sticitt puts it. 
In our discussion, we start off covering Theo’s education in Quantitative Risk Management and his CFA, background in the banking space, accounting, and his early ambitions in golf. 

We then move onto why Sticcit was founded and the vision, the back end, cofounding team, regulation and more..  

For more info visit www.sticitt.co.za

Dylan Fletcher reads an article from www.venturescale.co that is a collection of quotes from the greats on how to pick cofounders... all in one place.