Cofounders Notebook
Welcome to "CoFounders Notebook", A weekly newsletter led by Reuben Mwatosya: Sharing Notes and Ideas on fintech & tech businesses in Africa.
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Mobile Money Does Not Need One Wallet. It Needs Globally Accepted Standards Like Cards.
Introduction
Payments always default to standards. That is because standards accelerate adoption.
Dare Okoudjou, the founder of Onafriq, has made this point clearly: payment networks scale when participants agree on common rules, common...
How To Be A Billionaire In Africa: Build A Bank.
Introduction.
In the last Cofounders Notebook Short-letter, We looked at a few African billionaires who built their fortunes in telecoms.
The pattern was simple. Get the licence. Raise the capital. Build the network. Acquire million...
Uber Delivery: The $100 Billion Delivery Business Hiding Inside a Ride App.
Introduction:
Uber became a verb because of one activity: getting into a car. But the network Uber built to move people turned out to be capable of moving something else. I mean, Almost anything.
There nothing better than using the e...
How To Be A Billionaire In Africa: Trade, Then Manufacture What We Import.
Introduction.
This is supposed to be the shortest article of all in the series, Do what billionaires do?
Because: We know the names. Dangote. BUA. MeTL. Bakhresa. Cevital. We know the billions. But there is a more useful question...
How To Be A Billionaire In Africa: Build A Telecom Company.
Introduction.
Years ago I read a book that basically said: If you want to become a billionaire, Do what billionaires do. The problem was that most of the billionaires in those books were very far from home.
They built software in Cali...
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Cofounders Notebook is a weekly read for new ideas, insights and some tips for doing tech led businesses in Africa. Prepared by Reuben Mwatosya: An ex banker turned fintech operator in world's leading mobile money markets.
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