Startup Reality Check
Clear-eyed teardown of African startups, strategy, incentives, and reality behind the hype.
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Constraint Migration
Constraint Migration
A Startup Reality Check Framework V1
This is a living framework (updated as new cases emerge)
By Akintoye Favour
Most founders interpret a new crisis as evidence that something went wrong.
Constraint Mig...
Start Here
Start Here
Where the Story Ends
By Akintoye Favour
A founder stands on a stage.
The slides are clean.
The growth chart points upward.
The market is large.
The investors are excited.
The story makes sense.
Then the company...
Startup Reality Check: System
Startup Reality Check: System
Why Control Beats Commitment in African Consumer Markets
by Favour Akintoye
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For years, founders have imported one of Silicon Valley’s favorite business models.
Build software.
Char...
Startup Reality Check #24: Zipline — 7.9/10
Startup Reality Check #24: Zipline — 7.9/10
The Company That Turned the Sky Into Infrastructure... Now Fighting Gravity
by Akintoye Favour
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In the hills of Rwanda, when the roads turn to mud and disappear into rain, someth...
Startup Reality Check #23: M-Pesa — 8.7/10
Startup Reality Check #23: M-Pesa — 8.7/10
The Financial Bloodstream That Built Kenya… But Is Now Beginning to Thicken
By Akintoye Favour
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In 2007, Kenya’s financial system had a problem it could not see clearly.
Money mo...
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