Entrepreneurs Talk Africa

This is episode focuses on growth and how to unleash it. Every startuper and entrepreneur wants to grow his/her business, us at Entrepreneurs Talk Africa included. But how do you do it? We had to ask somebody who did it, not only once, but multiple times. We had the pleasure to discuss growth and acceleration with a serious serial entrepreneur, and we are delighted to share this conversation with Raghavendra Hunasgi.
Raghav is a global Marketing and Branding expert helping Fortune 500 companies unleash the power of insight-driven marketing. A globally-renowned entrepreneur published author and an in-demand speaker at TEDx and conferences around the globe. He is a 21st-century leader and influencer whose words and work in the field of marketing and branding are helping organizations leapfrog to the next level.

He is ranked amongst the top 100 CMO’s in the world. He speaks and writes enthusiastically about brand strategy, entrepreneurship, product innovation, growth marketing, and Sales. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and more.

Raghav has advised three presidents and two prime ministers, Forbes listed him as a top social media influencer, the United Nations inducted him as a digital evangelist, the Harvard Business School alumni – named Growth Marketing Zen Master, and India’s leading media house Economic Times top 100 business thinkers of India.

Raghav is a serial entrepreneur and has built and sold two successful companies. He has driven the explosive growth for many organizations and enjoys teaching Marketing, Branding, and strategy in several universities across – India, Korea, USA, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, he also serves on the board of many public listed and privately held companies.
For all our listeners, Raghav is offering is latest book, Unleashing Growth, 15 Growth Marketing Hacks Every Entrepreneur Should Know. Get Raghav, book for free with your Entrepreneurs talk Africa pass code:

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In this episode, we welcome Yvonne Bettkober, from Cameroon, who is the General Manager of Amazon Web Services Switzerland. We cannot but think about all the young professionals in Africa who dream about having a great career in tech and drive their own success! Yvonne is a real role model!
Yvonne discusses at leanght how technology can be an enable for many challenges faced by Africa. She explains how Africa is a startup, and why we need a more connected economy to the needs of the people.
We come to the root of the startup way of thinking: Think Big, Invent and Simplify, Start from the Customer. We explore what makes success in life. Yvonne describes simple ideas: working hard, being obsessed, not looking for the easy path, being resilient, making a difference and an impact...

And we explore what those ideas mean through three dimensions: Intelligence, Energy, and Integrity. An episode packed with powerful words from one of the top African women leaders.

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Pivoting is an important aspect of any venture. We start with an idea and then a few weeks of months later, we find our market and pivot. In this episode, young entrepreneur Coralie Marti, from Gemstone, walks us through her entrepreneurship journey and focus on coherence.
Coralie goes back memory lane to explain how it all started and how she quickly realized the original idea was going nowhere. Although the experience can be profoundly disturbing and destabilizing, it's central to the learning process. And learning is at the heart of what Gemstone, Coralie's company, is doing.
You will discover gems in this episode that will resonate with your own experience. It will teach you that whatever you're doing, your soul needs to tell you that you're doing what you need to do. Stay coherent!

Entrepreneurs Talk Africa had the pleasure of interviewing Ruth Kamau, Co-Owner and Managing Director of a Pan African feel boutique house, iKhaya Lodge & Conference Centre, in the heart of Cape Town. She is also a director and advisor on several boards, an award winning playwright and novelist, to name but a few of her many ventures.

In the episode we get to join Ruth on her personal journey of becoming an entrepreneur. As a woman of many talents and being involved in so much, we explore how and why she chooses to take on so much and how agility and resistance or as the Sci-fi lover would say, how being a shapeshifter is essential in order to survive and thrive with the changing times.

His love for the arts and his passion for story telling has always been his motivation and influenced his decision to divert from political science to pursue journalism. The constant interaction with individuals from various countries and cultures have shaped how he views the world and has greatly contributed to his success as a multimedia journalist.

Briefly after graduation, he worked his way to becoming the managing editor of a community newspaper in the Washington Metro area. In 2012, he permanently relocated to Ghana and was lead video & photo reporter for Ghana Decides, a non-partisan social media project to cover Ghana’s presidential elections.

Emmanuel has led business development and served as multimedia journalist with Global Media Alliance. He is the co-host of a radio program, MPwr show, which engages young African leaders in weekly discussions, highlighting their successes, sharing their challenges, and fostering positive habits among this generation of change-makers.

Emmanuel is the Director for Digital and Design Innovation at the Impact Hub Accra/Broadcasting Board of Governors Innovation Lab in Accra. He is the Founding Executive Director of Urithi Labs, a research-intuitive outfit that uses innovation in media to educate, empower and employ on the African continent.

Emmanuel works as a faculty member with the University of Stellenbosch - Executive Education on digital reputation management, he runs a podcast "Unpacking Africa" that interviews and explores multi-stakeholders in multiple industries across the African continent.