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Episode 143 Blockchain Beyond Payments with Dare Odumade from Nigeria, Founder & CEO of Chekkit Technologies, Inc.

By rarebirds 23.09.20

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Episode 143 Blockchain Beyond Payments with Dare Odumade from Nigeria, Founder & CEO of Chekkit Technologies, Inc.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

  • The Beginnings of an Entrepreneurial Journey
  • Dare before Chekkit
  • Solving a Problem that Changes the Everyday Life of Africans
  • The Counterfeit Problem
  • Creating an Authentication System that Rewards the Consumer
  • Consumer Insights for Producers
  • Legal Frameworks to Solve the Problem
  • The Billion Dollar Business that is Counterfeiting
  • African Countries Being the Recipient of Fake Drugs from South Asia
  • The Sparsity of Data
  • Understanding Blockchain Technology
  • Smart Contracts Explained
  • Dag Technology
  • Creating Unique Identities for a Current Customer
  • Understanding the Role of the Supply Chain
  • Educating the Client
  • Blockchain Technology in Other Industries
  • Chekkit Tokens in the Making
  • Creating Everyday Technologies That Improves Lives
  • Lessons Learned:
    • Learn to Fail Quickly
    • Understand the Pain Points & Challenges of Your Target Market
    • Find a Huge Problem to Solve
  • The Future for Dare-Solving More Problems

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MORE INFO ON DARE

Dare is the Founder and CEO at Chekkit Technologies Inc, he has over 10 years’ experience in software venture building expertise. Trained professionally as a Geologist, further trained at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MBA like program) in Ghana as a Software Entrepreneur and advanced further in Entrepreneurship studies at the SDA Bocconi Business school, Italy.

He has founded two companies in the past – StrictlyUI (a social network for the University of Ibadan) where he had his first degree and is still the most active group of the University on Facebook with over 30K students. The second is a social music streaming and IM platform called sharebunk.io for which he signed a 3 million tracks streaming deal and got an offer from 1 of the top 3 global music record labels but  didn’t take it, the startup crashed shortly after.

Dare’s company Chekkit develops product distribution chain tracking solutions for consumer goods manufacturers to combat counterfeits and gain consumer insights across their value chain with the aim of saving lives.

Guest: Dare Odumade

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dareodumade/

COMPANY SOCIAL MEDIA

Host: Jo-Ann A. Hamilton

Resources Mentioned:

Credits:

  • Produced and Hosted by-Jo-Ann A. Hamilton
  • Music by Notes to the Soul

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By rarebirds 23.09.20

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