Starting a successful business sure has its own perks but resting after a ten hour flight across the Atlantic is not one of them. Many business owners say that the success comes from maintaining a hands on approach to business management.Moreso when the company is in a growing phase and things are looking good. Birame Sock is aware of the challenges that come with being an entrepreneur--who is an innovator at the same time. But it helps that this is not her first foray in the ever changing field of technology. She is known as one of Africa's youngest technology innovators--developing new ideas from conception to deployment and profiting from them.
When I call her office in Miami Florida at 8am,she has just returned from Paris speaking at a woman's conference. She is busy working on her new venture myreceipts.com under the company she started a few years ago-Third Solutions. Birame came to the US for college over a decade ago. After graduation she started working for technology companies at the time when the wireless industry was witnessing unprecedented growth.
After selling her first company-Musicphone,Birame returned to the drawing board. Four years later she started myreciepts, a potentially ground breaking concept. Birame traces her entrepreneurial spirit to her childhood in West Africa,selling frozen juices to make a quick buck. She started Musicphone at the time when digital music was still a new technology. "It was sort of trying to prove things to myself...and learning throughout the process, i didn't necessarily have big goals" she says. But in a few years later we are all listening to music on our cellphones and ipods. So is Birame Sock our very own Steve Jobs? Here is our conversation!
