Podcasts about msurvey

Happy New Week Chini ya Maji family, another great week, another great throwback episode! This week on our Oldie but Goodie Series we bring you the inspiring story of Louis Majanja, head of product at Ajua. Enjoy the Podcast!

This week we had the well travelled, super experienced, no nonsense Luis Majanja, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at mSurvey. As you will hear on this episode Luis is a well travelled tech practitioner with wide ranging experience from machining to building his own social media platform well before facebook. This gentleman is a treasure for the ecosystem and at Impact Africa Network we are super glad to call him a friend and an ally. With Luis driving product strategy it is no wonder mSurvey are on their way to doing big things on the continent. Enjoy!

This week we had the phenomenal Claire Munene who is the Chief Revenue Officer at mSurvey sharing her corporate to startup journey. Claire spent 14 years at Safaricom after which she felt the urge to seek out a new path and ended up joining the mSurvey founders, Kenfied Griffith and Louis Majanja to build the company. This is great story packed with insights and tips for those on the corporate side considering a move to startups and also for founders looking to attract talent from the corporate side. It is also a great signal that startups are increasingly a viable career option in Silicon Savanna.

Understanding your customers is an incredibly important aspect of any forward-thinking business. In many developed markets there are reams of public data available to understand demographics, as well as established market insight companies who give a perspective on consumer tastes. In Kenya, however, this was difficult. mSurvey was borne from a PhD student's frustration at not being able to get such insights, and five years on the company is one of the region's flagship start up success stories. In this episode Sam Kamande, who is mSurvey's Head of Data, and I discuss the many applications of their technology platform, how the fact that African consumers are very comfortable communicating via text message is good for their business, and the vision for utilising the big data they collect to give a holistic view on the African consumer. This is a cracking episode, full of tid bits of information on the East African economy, doing business and generally the real impact of applying technology to an area that has been historically overlooked. READ MORE AT:https://theeastafricabusinesspodcast.com/2018/01/25/surveys-leveraging-big-data-from-mobile-money-with-sam-kamande-from-msurvey/

OverviewSo… after a few months away The East Africa Business Podcast is coming back, with more interviews from entrepreneurs and business leaders on the ground in this exciting part of the world. On Thursday we'll be going live with an interview with Sam Kamande, Head of Data at mSurvey. A company leveraging technology and big data to help businesses improve their customer experience. It's a great episode, and we even get onto the topic of wearing mascara. After that we'll have the usual assortment of in depth interviews from diverse industries, including a few from Ethiopia, which is a fascinating place when it comes to business. We'll learn how challenging it is to implement business models common in other parts of the world, namely ride hailing (i.e. Uber) and restaurant delivery (i.e. Deliveroo), and importantly the strategies entrepreneurs there are taking to overcome. As one of them said, “if we can make it in Ethiopia, we can make it anywhere in Africa” Staying updatedIn terms of some housekeeping there are a few things to update you on. Firstly, we now have a Facebook page, and so if you'd like to get updates of episodes, and learn more about the guests and their companies, please do Like and Follow the page. You can find it by searching for: The East Africa Business Podcast On there we'll also be resharing episodes from the archives, and so it'll be a good way to keep an eye out on an interesting topic or business that you may wish to learn more from. Also, if you are listening to this update after hearing previous episodes, then it would be fantastic if you could leave a review of the show on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. It'll help others like you find the show, and generally, I'd just appreciate it. So, I'll leave it at that for now. Keep an eye out for a new episode hitting your podcast inbox on Thursday 25th January, and look forward to speaking to you then.READ MORE AT:https://theeastafricabusinesspodcast.com/2018/01/21/season-two-preview/

Montserrat native Kenfield Griffith is co-founder and CEO of mSurvey-- a data analytics SaaS startup based in Nairobi Kenya. In 2012, Kenfield partnered with Kenyan Louis Majanja to launch the business following an extended visit to Nairobi to conduct some research for his MIT PhD on the use of technology as a means to improving communication. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, Kenfield explains why he's bullish on 2018 and unpacks how mSurvey's data analytics platform is delivering solid business results for an impressive roster of big-name clients in East Africa, the US and the Caribbean.

Marlon Nichols is a co-founder and general partner at Cross Culture Ventures (CCV), an early stage venture capital firm with a focus on cultural investing (global trends and shifts in consumer behavior). Before founding CCV, Marlon was an investment director at Intel Capital where he completed his Kauffman Fellowship. Prior to his time in venture capital, Marlon led successful careers in software and strategy consulting in the technology, private equity, media and entertainment sectors. Some of Marlon’s investments include Afrostream, Gimlet Media, Hingeto, LendStreet, LISNR, Mark One (Vessyl), Mayvenn, Mirantis, MongoDB, mSurvey, Sidestep, Skurt, and Thrive Market. Marlon earned a Bachelor of Science in MIS from Northeastern University and a MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Marlon currently serves on the board of directors for private companies LISNR, Shottracker and Sidestep, and was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Kauffman Fellows Program. Marlon was named to Silicon Republic's list of 26 venture capital professionals spearheading change in technology investing, was a recipient of Digital Diversity’s Innovation & Inclusion Change Agent award, and was named a member of theRegistry's 40 under 40 Top Diverse Talent. Marlon has been featured in a number of magazines, blogs, and podcasts. http://crossculturevc.com https://twitter.com/crossculturevc