thinking about the advice i gave to founders before i had startup experience vs. what i would advise now with ~2 years working at a startup is a truly crazy thought exercise

Didn't know Mae Jemison was a woman I had to met until I met her. 1st black woman to travel to space. 1st real Astronaut to play a role in Star Trek. Exceptional visionary and mind 💫

Food security / insecurity keeps me awake at night. Policy makers + private sector + investors = change. We're working against time #strategy

"Remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa grew by 16.4% to reach $50bn in 2021 - Nigeria got largest share (~$19bn) - exceeding official development assistance ($35bn) in the same year." - daba Diaspora remittance is underrated for #funding diaspora & Africa startups

BREAKING: large companies execute slower than startups due to meetings about meetings about how to have more meetings about meetings.

Congratulations to my friend, Dr. Fenella Mukangara. An exemplary leader indeed #WomenInPolitics Cc: Fatma Kange

Friendly reminder that startups with a better product lose often to startups with better distribution, brand, marketing, storytelling, and sales.

Learnt this early and surrendered to it

Building a startup is hard as hell but beats regretting never giving it a shot.

🔊For those of you ready to get in a learning community of angel investors and kickstart your investing journey - ⏳Few spots left for the next cohort. APPLY NOW! africanangelacademy.com/tech-hub-progr…

If you’re thinking of engaging a freelancer or consultant at your org, plan ahead 📅 Great people get booked up months in advance. If you’re contacting someone and expecting to get started in the next few weeks you’ll likely be disappointed ☹️ so give yourself a 3 month lead.

Conversations and decisions are guided by tone and tact. Cc: Noreen Makosewe, Founder and Managing Director The Radical Leap Group, a company that specialises in business transformation, digital transformation and market expansion for SMEs. #businessinsight #femalefounders #iwd2023

200+ women registered for the I AM CHANGE GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT CONFERENCE. Looking forward to sharing thoughts. Thank you Nancy Taiye Aragbaye for hosting us. Free to attend with registration here - strategic-solutions.global/Events #impact #empoweringwomen

Noreen Makosewe Absolutely! The figures clearly show the immense power and potential of remittances in sub-Saharan Africa. Diaspora remittances not only provide critical financial support to individual families, but they can also be a key source of capital for startups and entrepreneurs.

Big news to share: a16z is expanding to the UK 🇬🇧 We plan to open our first international office in London later this year, and will host the next Crypto Startup School there in 2024. Why the UK? 👇 a16zcrypto.com/posts/announce…

Joined KenTrade, Strathmore University Business School and UTSA Center for Global Development today for talks on international and intra-Africa trade, technology and knowledge-sharing. #partnerships work.

It’s easy to look at entrepreneurial success stories as if they were destined to succeed. But for every Netflix story, there are hundreds—no, thousands – of other ideas that looked even more promising to their founders and failed. That’s why you’ve never heard of them. What

There’s a big difference between an interesting concept and a viable business.

Now we await a plausible explanation for a national power blackout lasting 12+ hours. The cost and national security implications are dire. What "disturbance" blacked a whole country out? @Kenya #KenyaPower

The future of food in Africa is #organic. Kudos to our partners and friends at Forest foods for partnering with Tatu City, and helping clean up the food chain 🩷