M-Kopa Solar fires 18% of its staff including all developers, outsources work to a foreign company

Yup Bernard.

Great to see you on the list.. 🙂

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Bernard Matthewman <
matthewmanb@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I agree with the P2P approach, however reading the article this appears to
> be the reason they are downsizing, the CEO says “This means building a
> sustainable, profitable company that offers impact for customers and
> returns for investors.”.
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> I think a relatively mature startup like M-Kopa is expected to make some
> corrections to staff numbers as they grow. Anyone with experience in
> growing a business will know it is not linear, the danger signs for me are
> when businesses ignore ‘building a sustainable and profitable company’ and
> use other metrics like numbers of customers or click throughs for their
> valuations.
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> *From: *kictanet > gmail.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke> on behalf of Ali Hussein via kictanet <
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