The Traction Stage

We all want our roads in good conditions. Don’t we? But, the definition of a ‘good’ and a ‘bad’ road may vary a lot. This is the challenge that governments and companies run through in the process of road maintenance: assessment subjectivity. RoadBotics was born to solve this and other problems regarding road inspections. Through … Continue reading RoadBotics: The Early Days Of An American Startup That Provides Smart Road Assessments – with Mark DeSantis The post RoadBotics: The Early Days...

Receiving correspondences in Kenya might be a real challenge. That’s because addresses (street, number, etc) are not available for every one. For many years, people have been counting on PO boxes—rented post office lockable boxes—many times shared with other people, in a centralized way. The problems naturally arise, once your packages might be accessed by … Continue reading MPost: The Traction Story of a Kenyan Startup that is solving addressing problem – with Twahir Mohamed [Ep#16] The...

How exciting it is to think about all the solutions being developed for the healthcare industry! The use of technology for measuring patients’ health, setting appointments, setting medication and improving patient’s overall experience are just a few examples of that. However, to make all these improvements come true, healthcare vendors (technology developers) and healthcare providers … Continue reading Redox: A Platform For Healthcare Vendors And Providers To Integrate Their Data – with...

Imagine yourself as a smallholder farmer in Kenya. To grow your crop, you need to buy some inputs. Once you don’t have much money to pay for them, you ask for a loan to a local bank. Due to seasons timing, you have only 4 weeks to plant. However, the bank takes more than that … Continue reading Tulaa: A Platform That Helps Smallholder Farmers To Thrive In Kenya – with Hillary Miller-Wise [Ep#14] The post Tulaa: A Platform That Helps Smallholder Farmers To Thrive In Kenya – with Hillary...

In 2013, Faizan took his wife to the movies in a distant city, once the city they lived in didn’t have a cinema. However, when they got there, there were no available seats left, which made them got back home frustrated. With a background in technology, Faizan had an idea: to build a platform in … Continue reading Bookme: A Pakistani E-ticketing Platform And Its Traction Story – with Faizan Aslam [Ep#13] The post Bookme: A Pakistani E-ticketing Platform And Its Traction Story – with Faizan...

Claudia King worked for many years as a lawyer, but she became really stressed out about the so called billable-hour model. As in any service that depends on the time of the people working in the company, the scalability of the business is restrained by the number of hour people are able to perform. With … Continue reading Automio: A Platform For Lawyers to Automate and Market Their Services – with Claudia King [Ep#12] The post Automio: A Platform For Lawyers to Automate and Market Their...

You’re a high school student, who wants to enter in some of the best universities. Or maybe you are already studying in the university, but wants to get an awesome job in a great company. Goodwall is a platform with the purpose to connect high school students with universities and college students with companies they … Continue reading Goodwall: Generating Traction for a Platform that Connects Students, Universities and Employers – with Taha Bawa [Ep#11] The post Goodwall: Generating...

Undoubtedly, Augmented Reality (AR) has an enormous potential to change several industries in the next years. Trax, the startup of our 10th episode, is focusing its efforts on using AR to change the way retail companies manage their on shelf products. To retailers, that means being able to better visualize, in real-time, their products in-store … Continue reading Trax: A Platform That Digitizes The Physical World Of Retail And Its Traction Story – with Joel Bar-El [Ep#10] The post Trax: A...

Waiting for something to be delivered makes you anxious. Right? Well, there are some businesses that get more than just anxious by late deliveries. An airline company that is waiting for a part to one of its planes may lose up to U$ 150,000 per hour if its aircraft stays on the ground. A patient … Continue reading Airspace: Traction Of A Platform For Time-Critical Deliveries – with Nicholas Bulcao [Ep#9] The post Airspace: Traction Of A Platform For Time-Critical Deliveries – with Nicholas...

Here we go to Africa, where we find many people who work hard but have difficulties in earning a good income as well as in saving for their futures. And these are exactly the issues that our next guest, Abolore Salami, is addressing through his startup: Riby. Riby provides cooperatives a platform to organize their … Continue reading Riby: How a Fintech Got Traction By Helping People On Accessing Financial Services In Africa – with Abolore Salami [Ep#8] The post Riby: How a Fintech Got...

Undoubtedly, personal financial planning is at the core of all significant financial achievements we have in our lives. Considering that our biggest financial goals are achieved only through the right balance between long-term and short-term spending decisions, it is important to have a good discipline to achieve them. Bambu developed a digital solution that provides … Continue reading Bambu: How a Robo-Advisory Platform For Financial Institutions Generated B2B Traction – with Ned Phillips...

A patient who needs to communicate with her doctor in another language. An accused person that needs to speak in foreign country court. A deal going on between two negotiators of different native languages. What all these cases have in common? The need for an interpreter. Today, we’ll know the story of Boostlingo, an unified … Continue reading Boostlingo: Traction Of A Platform That Connects Interpreters To The World – with Dieter Runge [Ep#6] The post Boostlingo: Traction Of A Platform...

After being diagnosed with cancer in 2006, Steven Novick was decided to adopt healthier eating habits in his life. However, as everyone that has taken that decision, he noticed how difficult it was to find healthy food for affordable prices. To solve this problem, he decided to found Farmstand. In our fifth episode, Steven Novick … Continue reading Farmstand: How a Sustainable, Ethical And Healthy Food Startup Found Traction – with Steven Novick [Ep#5] The post Farmstand: How a...

In episode 4, I interviewed Roy Stein, co-founder of BabelBark—an american startup that connects dog trainers, walkers, groomers, shelters and veterinaries directly with pet parents via a mobile enabled platform. Roy brings into the conversions very insightful elements as: the idea generation, solving the chicken-egg dilemma, prototype development, beta testers communities and the platform monetization strategy. Today, the BabelBark has … Continue reading BabelBark: Traction In a...

In this episode, I interviewed Dam Mulhem, co-founder of XXII—a french startup that designs solutions based on Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Dam brings to the conversation important elements that have helped XXII to get in the traction stage as: economies of scope, B2B vs. B2C, culture evolution … Continue reading XXII: Finding Traction in Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Technologies – with Damien Mulhem [Ep#3]

Today, my guest is Alexander Varvarenko, founder of ShipNext. Based on his strong knowledge and experience in the transport industry, he’s been focused on developing a solution to tackle supply chain inefficiencies. ShipNext’s platform is strongly based on processes digitization and automation and aims to improve transparency as well as lower supply chain participant costs. … Continue reading ShipNext: Traction in Ships-Cargoes Platform, through Expertise and Technology – with Alexander...

Crijn Bouman and his partners wanted to radically change the process of batteries recharging forever. In 2004, they've founded Epyon Power through which they aimed to reduce the recharging time from several hours to 15-30 minutes only. By counting with their team's skills they've overcame challenging hurdles in the way and, after 4 years, Epyon started seeing some traction. In 2011, it was acquired by ABB, a giant in the technology industry.