Bees make great fences to keep the wild elephants off of farmland, and there are more elephants in Botswana than any other country in Africa.

Kalahari Honey trains farmers in bee keeping, then collects, bottles, and packages that honey for sale in pharmacies and markets in Botswana, Lesotho, and Namibia.

Mavis Nduchwa, founder and CEO tells the story of Kalahari Honey in this short talk from the Fledge accelerator Demo Day.

Video and more details at fledge.co/fledgling/kalahari-honey

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The area around Lake Victoria in Africa is home to 100 million people, nearly all who live without access to electricity. This is a hilly region, with hundreds of year-round rivers and streams, and thousands of waterfalls.

Bieera Energy has been created by Kisii University to deploy off-the-shelf micro-hydro power plants to take advantage of the megawatts of untapped, clean, carbon-free energy to bring electricity to the region.

Video and more details at fledge.co/fledgling/bieera

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The 10 million people living in Western Kenya consume 400,000 chickens per day. But they currently only grow 120,000 of those locally.

Chicken Basket was founded by Abisai Nandi to address this opportunity, working with hundreds of local Kenyan farmers, mostly women and youth, to meet the need for chickens in Kisumu, Kenya and the rest of Western Kenya.

Video and more details at fledge.co/fledgling/chicken-basket

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Who made your shoes? What are they made of?

Fuchsia Shoes works with artisans in Pakistan, Nepal, and ultimately across South Asia to make beautiful, comfortable, unique shoes and accessories, and shares the stories of the makers with their customers.

Afshan Abbas, founder and CEO tells the story behind two of these artisans and the progress of Fuchsia Shoes in this short talk from the Fledge accelerator Demo Day.

Video and more details at fledge.co/fledgling/fuchsia

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This week is a recording of Demo Day from Fledge14, the conscious company accelerator in Seattle.

See demo-day.fledge.co for the video version of this event.

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This week is an interview Mavis Nduchwa, founder of Kalahari Honey.

In this podcast, May and I talk about the importance of focus, how you find focus, and sometimes how it finds you.

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This week is an interview Elias Mabiria from Kisii University.

In this podcast, Elias and I talk compare the University of Washington and its 200+ person commercialization department with Kisii University, a 16,000-student public university in Western Kenya.

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The biggest hangup entrepreneurs face in The Next Step curriculum and in business planning in general is the financial model.

My lesson of "tell a story with numbers" doesn't always sink in, and in this podcast for all of you afraid of spreadsheets, afraid of numbers, or who need this lesson repeated in a different way I take another crack at teaching financial modeling .

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This week is an interview Fred Whittlesey, compensation consultant.

In this podcast, Fred and I talk about what decisions founders need to make when it comes to compensation, and what common mistakes are made by startups in dealing with employees around compensation.

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Three weeks into Fledge14 (the fourteenth session of my conscious company accelerator) and just about everything we've done is invisible: business planning, financial modeling, learning the realities of funding, and dozens of meetings with mentors are in-progress.

What is visible are the three new company names, three new logos, and one refreshed logo. (Re)Branding is the most visible change we make with startups at Fledge, and the most visible aspect of any business plan.

In addition to this week's discussion of that process, you can see the results of this effort and historic efforts like it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YQ5DNageCQ

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