Forwarded from ALX Ethiopia
Last week at Entrepreneurs Meetup 🚀 Beamlak Alemayehu, Founder & CEO of Medanit, shared her journey, lessons on leadership, mentorship, partnerships and building accessible digital healthcare.
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Want to learn more about entrepreneurship? Join the ALX Founder Academy (FA) and take the next step in your entrepreneurial journey.
👉 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/ywjnmxw4
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Forwarded from ALX Ethiopia
ALX Ethiopia partnered with the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute (EAII) to support the delivery of a 10-day entrepreneurship bootcamp for the AI UniPod Program, powered by Timbuktoo in partnership with EAII and Addis Ababa University (AAU).
The program brought together 25 founders building AI-driven ventures, with ALX Ethiopia co-leading the business and venture-building component. Across the 10 days, founders explored key areas including customer discovery, problem validation, business models, pricing, Go-to-Market strategy, institutional sales, team building, pitching, and investment readiness.
The bootcamp combined practical frameworks, interactive discussions, and hands-on exercises, enabling founders to apply their learning directly to their ventures.
Through this partnership, ALX Ethiopia contributed its entrepreneurship development expertise to help bridge the gap between AI innovation and venture building, supporting founders to develop stronger business models, understand their markets, and build more sustainable and scalable technology-driven ventures.
#ALXEthiopia #ALXAfrica #DoHardThings
The program brought together 25 founders building AI-driven ventures, with ALX Ethiopia co-leading the business and venture-building component. Across the 10 days, founders explored key areas including customer discovery, problem validation, business models, pricing, Go-to-Market strategy, institutional sales, team building, pitching, and investment readiness.
The bootcamp combined practical frameworks, interactive discussions, and hands-on exercises, enabling founders to apply their learning directly to their ventures.
Through this partnership, ALX Ethiopia contributed its entrepreneurship development expertise to help bridge the gap between AI innovation and venture building, supporting founders to develop stronger business models, understand their markets, and build more sustainable and scalable technology-driven ventures.
#ALXEthiopia #ALXAfrica #DoHardThings
The best product can still fail.
Today, my team had a Google Meet discussion about one of the most important parts of building a startup:
Acquisition Channels.
It sounds simple:
“How do customers find us?”
But there’s a deeper question:
Why would they stop, pay attention, and want to learn more?
Your acquisition channel is the bridge between your solution and your first customer.
It could be:
- LinkedIn
- TikTok
- Communities
But the goal isn’t to be everywhere.
The goal is to find the channel where your customers already are.
One lesson I’m taking from today:
- Don’t build first and hope people discover you.
- Understand how people discover you, then build for them.
Building a startup is teaching me that distribution can be just as important as the product itself.
What’s the strongest acquisition channel you’ve seen for a startup?
#Startups #Entrepreneurship #Growth #Marketing #Acquisition #BuildInPublic
Today, my team had a Google Meet discussion about one of the most important parts of building a startup:
Acquisition Channels.
It sounds simple:
“How do customers find us?”
But there’s a deeper question:
Why would they stop, pay attention, and want to learn more?
Your acquisition channel is the bridge between your solution and your first customer.
It could be:
- TikTok
- Communities
But the goal isn’t to be everywhere.
The goal is to find the channel where your customers already are.
One lesson I’m taking from today:
- Don’t build first and hope people discover you.
- Understand how people discover you, then build for them.
Building a startup is teaching me that distribution can be just as important as the product itself.
What’s the strongest acquisition channel you’ve seen for a startup?
#Startups #Entrepreneurship #Growth #Marketing #Acquisition #BuildInPublic
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