Tag: Startups
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The Importance of Reliability as a Start-up
One thing I often communicate to all the businesses I work with is that there are only so many things you can control and compete on. The best way to establish your new business is to use tools that do not cost you anything as a business. Reliability and communication do not cost a dime.…
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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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How Zimbabwean Startups Are Incorrectly Borrowing VC Funding Concepts
The Silicon Valley bug was bound to hit Zimbabwe sooner than later. It is very good because it means that Zimbabweans are finally realizing that startups are the future. As Zimbabwe, I have noticed that we seem to be incorrectly borrowing the Silicon Valley startup funding model. I know Zimbabweans love doing things their own…
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How to Pitch to Potential Customers
I later learned that pitching isn’t black and white, I mean a good or great product won’t necessarily just sell itself because it’s good. There is the human element that is good to know when you wanna know how to pitch to potential customers.
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Cabbana- The new Online Shopping Marketplace set to launch in Zimbabwe
The online classifieds space in Zimbabwe is one that has been a growing favourite for startups and existing businesses alike. This is obviously because they look at Zimbabweans going crazy about WhatsApp capable devices and understand how much of an opportunity that presents for other online based businesses. It’s at this time that, Cabbana, a…
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Entrepreneur Tools: Deet – Convenient Contact Sharing
As an entrepreneur you will find that networking is an important part of ensuring or setting yourself up for success. Time is limited but the goal is clear and whenever time can be saved then it must. You will often have meetings, networking events or presentations where you have to show up, make friends and…