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Failing to Win
- Hard-Earned Lessons from a Purpose-Driven Start-Up
- De: Mike Quinn
- Narrado por: Mike Quinn
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
In 2009, Canadian entrepreneur Mike Quinn packed his backpack and moved to Lusaka, Zambia, on a mission to find African entrepreneurs building scalable, high-impact businesses. There, he stumbled across two South African brothers, who had founded a business to help unbanked smallholder farmers receive mobile payments in a market where cash was king. After convincing his retired parents to mortgage their house and lend him $100,000, Mike joined as a co-founder of Zoona and became CEO for nine of the next 10 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story and insights to fintech in Africa
- De Anonymous User en 03-02-23
- Failing to Win
- Hard-Earned Lessons from a Purpose-Driven Start-Up
- De: Mike Quinn
- Narrado por: Mike Quinn
More Honest Than "Hard Thing About Hard Things"
Revisado: 09-18-21
Raw, Vulnerable, and Bold. An extremely well written and narrated tragedy of a pioneering African business. If you are doing business in Africa, an entrepreneur, or apart of any tech start-up, this book is a MUST READ! So many entrepreneurship and business books are all about success and all the things the author did right. Just like "The Hard Thing About Hard Things", probably my favourite entrepreneurship book before this, Mike flips the traditional formula on its head and instead treats the reader to a full book of brutally honest struggles, failures, and lessons learnt. Even though Zoona had a wealth of success and had huge external factors constantly beating them down working in countries that are very difficult to launch tech-startups from. I find it exponentially more helpful as a business person to hear these vulnerable learning stories. Zoona was a founding Africa fin-tech firm that built the foundation for so many African companies that came after it. We are all grateful that we get to stand on their shoulders today. I can't thank Mike enough for exposing such raw and powerful moments.
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