Category: Business Brilliance
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Don’t Copy Business Ideas, Do This Instead in 2025
Let’s admit it, in the world of entrepreneurship, it’s tempting to see a successful business and think, “I can do that too.” After all, if it’s working for someone else, why not replicate the model and get your share of the profits? Don’t get me wrong, sometimes it works out if the business you are…
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I worked in a Butchery After Graduating
The one thing we see everywhere is the message, “to Start”. “Start anywhere!” It is always said like it’s easy but it’s not. It’s not easy because sometimes we are not told that starting anywhere means literally that. We think starting anywhere means start as an intern, start as low-level staff. The truth is you…
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Fear of Failing Publicly 3: The Rise and Fall of OLOVA Music
This is part 3 in a series about my institutionalized fear of failing publicly. I am using the series to share the businesses and opportunities taken and dropped, failed and succeeded. I am sharing these because failure is not something we should be ashamed of even if society ridicules those who try and fail. You…
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Fear of Failing Publicly 2: The OLOVA Music App
We sold our dream and Olova like our lives dependant on it. We really believed it would change lives for Zimbabwean artists and consumers alike. We were aiming for a culture shift more than anything else. Musicians who had been our idols when we chased music sat across from us and bought into our dream…
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[Podcast] Tech will create a generation of problem solvers who cross industry boundaries
Listen Here: https://iono.fm/e/671618# Hosted by Archie Moyo, this Business Blunders and Brilliance podcast looks at all aspects of business and builds conversations around them and the lessons provided. Praising the Brilliance and critiquing the Blunders, the #KaizenYOU podcast talks about how to continuously improve as a business, startup or individual. In the pilot episode of…
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Zimbabwean Unemployment Presents an Opportunity for Shared Economy Platforms
the bulk of the alumni in my undergrad graduation year are not formally employed yet. More than half a decade later, the investment in school starts to feel like a poor decision. Should we have taken the fees and started a chicken project instead? A tuckshop?
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How to Swipe into Ecocash from ANY Bank Account (Barclays |Standard Charted)
You’ll find your bank telling you that you’re on a waiting list for the link-to-Ecocash service, or that they lost your application or that Ecocash is delaying. Well, all that doesn’t matter anymore, you can now Swipe into your Ecocash account from any bank account. Barclays and Standard Bank, problem solved!
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How To Flourish In Bidding Wars Facebook Groups
The concept of Facebook bidding is growing because the groups are on Facebook. Zimbabweans will starve as long as they have facebook bundles. We know this because when a data price floor was introduced early this year Zimbos complained until data prices were restored. A week late tax was introduced on rice, meat and other…
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Will Ecocash Ever work in Kombis?
The one thing that we will all probably get tired of hearing is that Ecocash came and changed things in Zimbabwe blah blah blah. It may have started out slow but after our cash crisis spiralled deeper and deeper into turmoil. I mean you can pay for basically everything now; groceries, rent, tuition fees and…
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How To Get Kwese TV To Your Home (In Zimbabwe)
Kwese had initially been licenced through Mr Dish who had a broadcasting licence until BAZ decided to challenge the use of that licence for Kwese and shut it down just a day after launch. I’m sure most of us want to know how to get Kwese Tv into our homes. After all, this is the…