Insights and ideas
Explore thought-provoking perspectives from my long-running entrepreneurial blog.
The tyranny of passwords
17 February 2012 How many passwords do you have? No, wait. Let me guess. TOO MANY. Why? Because every company
Prepaid airtime is like sugar
31 January 2012 Africa has been freed from its shackles by the advent of prepaid airtime. Prepaid triggered the mass
Mobile phones & food in Africa
30 January 2012 I’ve recently read Poor Economics, a great study of the poor in developing countries. One of
The interesting life of telcos
30 January 2012 So lets think of the evolution of the mobile operators. When they started, the fixed
Thank God for affirmative action
26 January 2012 I was at Exclusive Books the other day, killing an hour whilst looking after my kids. During
If I’m Knott-Craig, who am I?
22 January 2012 My name is Alan Knott-Craig. So is my dad’s. This has been a source of confusion for
Lessons from the Olympic Games for your business
7 December 2011 On Monday I had the privilege of listening to (Lord) Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London Organising
Mxit: The social broadcast network
29 November 2011 At its most basic level, a social network is a “bush telegraph” system. This seems particularly apt
The decision that made dodos famous
28 November 2011 Decision-making is like evolution. The wrong decision and you’re dead. No decision and you’re dead. Right decision