CEO Weekends: The Founder Institute Partners With GrowthHub To Train Tech Entrepreneurs In Kenya

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FOUNDERINS Nairobi’s GrowthHub and the Founder Insitute, world’s biggest start-up accelerator focusing on technology have partnered to host Startup Founder 101 on Thursday September 26, a free event targeting aspiring and early-stage startup founders to help them build awesome companies that last.

Startup Founder 101, to be held at the GrowthHub has lined up experienced entrepreneurs Moses Kemibaro (DotSavvy, Dealfish and InMobi) and Munyutu Waigi (Rupu, Ringier Kenya and Umati Capital) will share their experiences and insights of founding and growing a start-ups in Africa while  Johnni Kjelsgaard from GrowthAfrica will elaborate on and discuss investor-investee relationship, investment term sheets and their various aspects.

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According to the GrowthHub, “It is candid talks by successful local entrepreneurs, learning the best practices, strategies and off course what classic mistakes to avoid.

Set for 5–8 pm, attendees will be taken through topics such as elements of good and bad startup ideas,  first steps to starting up, including market research, naming, building a financial model, and more. How to recruit co-founders, employees, and partners, how to close funding, and manage investors and a lot more.

Founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, the Founder Institute is an early-stage startup accelerator and global launch network giving entrepreneurs expert training, feedback, and support to launch create meaningful and enduring technology companies. The institute boasts of over 800 companies build in 42 cities on six continents in less than three years. 

The TechMoran crew will be there to interview your and your startup team, so do not miss.

Register here http://growthfounder.eventbrite.com/!

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Sam Wakoba
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba