For once, Africa has an image advantage Op-Ed by me, originally published in The Economic Times on 2020-10-17 As the world reopens, and leisure tourism gradually resumes, African countries have a competitive advantage in the…
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**The Exchange** Remote workers – a Key Source of Africa’s Future Tourism Revenue
Digital Nomads are now changing the way of doing business in Africa given the upsurge and availability of internet connectivity. In 2020, remote working finally became normal everywhere. Analysts and thought leaders had predicted that…
**Techmoran** How the pandemic led to the launch of FoodleDoodle, East Africa’s first cloud kitchen
https://techmoran.com/2020/07/06/how-the-pandemic-led-to-the-launch-of-foodledoodle-east-africas-first-cloud-kitchen/ Interview with me in Techmoran 2020-07-06 Foodledoodle, the first multi-brand cloud kitchen operation in East Africa has launched in Kenya and is working with hotels to utilize idle kitchen capacity to produce food for…
Going cashless in Kenya is now King!
How the pangs of the pandemic are forging a new era of cashless payments for Kenya and Africa, as the world returns to a new normalcy. A few weeks ago, I was positively surprised to…
Nairobi, a city of endless roadworks
Kenya is bustling with roadworks at the moment. Nairobi is leading from the front. With the promise of great highways in the the near future, however, comes utter chaos now. Every other major road seems…
HotelOnline: How we scaled across Africa
The first-ever African Innovation Week took place in Addis Ababa at the African Union Headquarters, Oct. 28 – Nov. 2. AIW is an international conference, showcasing entrepreneurship in Africa. I was honoured to be among…
**The Exchange** 21st Century Capitalism
Why terms like “impact business” or “social entrepreneurship” are outdated Opinion piece by me, originally published in The Exchange print edition, 2019-10-01 Henry T. Ford once said “A business that makes nothing but money is…
HotelOnline – the story
The CEO of Africa Innovation Network, Flemming Sørensen, reached out recently, asking if I could do a video appearance at a seminar, telling the story of HotelOnline. Sure, I love telling about how Endre and…
[Ventureburn] Norwegian Håvar Bauck’s Kenyan startup HotelOnline announces it’s raised $320k
Håvar Bauck, the Norwegian entrepreneur who hit the news earlier this year over his dealings with controversial Polish tech entrepreneur Marek Zmyslowski announced yesterday that his Kenyan travel tech startup HotelOnline had raised $320 000. The company provides solutions…
[BW Hotelier] Shravan Shroff Joins HotelOnline Board of Directors
Shravan Shroff Joins HotelOnline Board of Directors Article in BusinessWorld Hotelier, published on 2019-07-10 HotelOnline is a travel tech scale-up, started by Norwegian entrepreneurs Håvar Bauck and Endre Opdal, both living in Kenya. HotelOnline, with…