Join Hassan Jallow, Founder & Chief Architect at Assutech Software, discuss the lessons he’s learnt since setting up his software engineering company in The Gambia. Subscribe now so you don’t miss out on the next episode!
Find out:
- How Assan started Assutech in his bedroom
- How his products are designed to help businesses
- Why he wants to create maximum benefit for his stakeholders and clients
- What Assan’s favourite Aristotle quote is!
- Why his business model is focused on impact rather than volume
- How mentors have helped him
- What vertical benchmarking is and how Assutech uses it
- What he learnt from a fellowship at a Silicon Valley data analytics company
- Why he’s so proud of his team
- Why he believes that talent magnetises talent
- What his (not-so) secret sandwich recipe is!
- How to care more about your clients than your competitors
- Why it’s so important to be organised, but not too bureaucratic
- What it took to launch the business and how he kept his startup costs minimal
- How to view challenges as part of the process, and learning opportunities
- Why it’s okay to fail
- What his message is to the Gambian diaspora
00:00 - Start
01:18 - Intro + Pitch
02:12 - Idea to Product
03:31 - Creating the Service
04:43 - Marketing
06:16 - Sales
08:05 - Logistics
10:27 - HR
14:55 - Legal
16:53 - Startup Cost
18:53 - Challenges
22:23 - Opportunities
23:12 - Vision
24:39 - Advice
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