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A fascinating episode about a Startup that is saving 5 lives a day with its emergency app. The scary stat is that it is quicker to order a pizza through a food delivery app than it is to get a policemen to your house. 00:00 BI78 | Warren Meyers | A ura 02:13 What is Aura and why start it? 04:01 Why is there a lack of innovation in policing 11:31 Creating a path and building a moat 16:47 Building for governments and expanding to UK 22:52 Managing supply and demand of a marketplace 26:10 How founders should plan their burn rate 30:57 How about this as a success metric!!! 36:07 Future of emergency detection

Solving South Africa's transport issues is hard and complex. But with many years building GoMetro, founder Justin Coetzee is helping bring EV Mini-bus taxis to South Africa. Justin shares his fascinating story about how leveraging data is helping make our complex network more efficient and helping lay the case for the move towards EV's. Listen to the full episode to learn about 5 business ideas for asiring founders looking to get into the EV business. 00:00 Justin | Go Metro 03:22 Where GoMetro started - the common problem in SA 08:31 How South Africa is a pioneer in informal to formal transport systems 15:09 How to convince people when you are disrupting 17:42 Breaking into the international market 20:30 Where to start when planning to go international 22:53 Bringing EV's to SA 33:10 Specs of the EV Van 39:04 Managing the unit ecnomics of a single EV minibus taxi 42:29 Working with taxi associations 46:21 What the future has in store

An interesting story about Skynamo, a sales management platform being built out of Stellenboch. They had to make huge decisions after receiving $32million funding just before Covid as they were rolling their expansion into the US and UK. The Open Letter Team: theopenletter.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-sequeira/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/renier-kriel/ Guest links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-clarke-19900b4/

Building predictive models are becoming easier and easier in the wake of the AI revolution. It's ability to optimise your business operations could be the next big wave in the new age of AI. 00:00 BI74 James Pattern 01:34 Who is Pattern? 04:03 Founder mode - how hard is it? 07:43 Analytics as a Service for Fashion 15:02 Brining multiple data points into the equation 20:15 Initial go-to-market strategy for a new product 25:42 Cape Union Mart helping innovative startups 27:13 Threat of Temu 31:36 edited up to here 37:12 opportunity in anonymized data 41:02 Thrift stores impact