Kaizen You: a blog about continuous Improvement.
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How Your Car Can Make You Money at Zero Investment
To dive straight into it, most people are missing out on a way to make money using their cars (legally). Luckily this does not involve being a getaway car or anything like that. The past decade has brought about the shared economy concept to the world and to Zimbabwe.
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Are On-Demand Businesses Capital Intensive to Start?
The on demand economy goes by more names than Prince the singer. It’s also known as The Gig Economy, The Shared Economy, The Sharing Economy among a few names. So if any of those terms are used, we are really talking about the same thing. This refers to business where the resources are of a…
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How To Pay under $30 USD for a Cab from the Airport in Zimbabwe
So it costs about half what airport taxes are charging to use our Zimbabwean ride-hailing platforms to get a ride from the airport. The only possible challenge is whether you are guaranteed to get a ride at the airport. It’s not a high traffic area so I don’t think there are cars there waiting.
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The Idea is just the Beginning, nothing more!
ne of the biggest mistakes we make as entrepreneurs is that we assume our ingenuity will solve all our issues. You got that beautiful idea; in a market you will practically be creating, carving out your riches…looks good doesn’t it? You’ll be living in a mansion by year-end! But If only life looked upon us…
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[Podcast] How to use data to improve Branding Efforts with Gregory Gapare [ @GregTheMarketer ]
Gregory Gapare is accused of acting like he’s the only Marketer in Zimbabwe. Passionate about Marketing and Branding for both corporates and individuals, he takes us through the paces on how to create a good brand then schools us about something you could never guess.
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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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Fear of Failing Publicly 1: NUST Winter Invitational
I learnt at a school where failure wasn’t much of an option. If you failed you would always prefer to fail in private. BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOALS. In short, don’t aim for something easy. That’s what we did. We put the business plan together, pretty detailed and several online templates put together
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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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