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Episode Overview: 
Early days. Traumatic extraction from Uganda and migration to UK. First attempts at business, the early hustle in the Moroccan bazaar. Negotiation tips. What you should know, if you think of becoming an entrepreneur. Common pitfalls of entrepreneurship. How Alpesh raised funds for his company MiFone. How do you become indispensable in a company? Tools that helped you make 500M in 3 years whilst working for Motorola. How did you get your first clients for MiFone? Biggest lessons from launching the first African hardware device mobile company. Importance of marketing and brand identity in launching a new product. How to create a strong brand identity. The toughest moment in Alpesh’s life. How did you overcome your burnout? What’s next for you? ZMBIZI and its mission. Meaning and purpose of life. A skill that changed your life. Your recipe for happiness. The myth of tech genius.
About Guest: 
Alpesh H Patel is an award winning Global Entrepreneur and has been featured in more than 50 media outlets including CNN, CNBC, BBC, Forbes, GQ and Huffington Post .He is an expert in business Go to Market strategies with a particular focus on Emerging markets. A veteran in the Telecoms industry, Alpesh generated $500m in his role as Director of Sales, Motorola.
In 2007 he founded the first African Tech Mobile Hardware startup Mi-Fone and OJU the world’s first Afro Emoticon character brand. The combined business was successfully sold to a $5B South African conglomerate. Alpesh is now the Co-Founder and CEO for ZMBIZI and BIZI LABS the new Web3.0 Mobile Platform that has been created to get 1,000,000,000 people paid daily from their Mobile device usage. Alpesh, specialises in Go to Market Strategies, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Results orientated Sales solutions. He has been dubbed as one of the first Tech Innovators to come out of Emerging markets and has worked with industry giants such as Visa, Vodafone, Western Union and Uber.
Alpesh is a Public speaker and has appeared on several panels such as The Titan Academy,The GSMA,The African Leadership Network and The Wharton Conference. He is also a published author with his first book “TESTED” nominated as “The Business Book of the Year UK, 2018”. His work has received critical acclaim and wide press.

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