""Our first year we did US$1.2 million, completely self-funded. I used my life-savings.""
Alpesh Patel on Africa’s original start-up Mi-Fone, the hip-hop telecoms brand and why it failed
Mi-Founder Alpesh Patel talks about: the founding of Mi-Fone and what it set out to do; its early success and later, its failure; the reasons for its failure; his book about his experiences, Tested; and what he’s currently doing to help start-ups.