If you have donated just $1 or more, to the fight to stop the spread of Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, you are a “partner” in a fight against one of the greatest threats to emerge, in the last few years. If you have not yet, donated, I Continue Reading →
Last week, the prestigious New York Times, named one of our safari lodges, as number 14 out of 52 “Best places to visit in the world for 2015″! http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/11/travel/52-places-to-go-in-2015.html?placeId=zimbabwe&_r=1 Now you probably did not know that Econet is in tourism. We have been in tourism for a long time. And Continue Reading →
A friend of mine, in South Africa, wanted me to join him, in acquiring a business called a “Feeding Lot”. Something he said, intrigued me: “They have 50,000 cattle on one farm…” “Did you say, 50,000 cattle?! Wow! I have never seen that many cattle in one place. I have Continue Reading →
Proverbs 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. Chido is one of my Facebook fans, she reads every post, and follows up with my “After thoughts”, taking copious notes, and extracting principles. One day she decided to visit her grandmother, who lived in a Continue Reading →
One of my young daughters, intrigued by what I said in my first post on being business-minded asked me, “so how does a Mobile Money service, like EcoCash or M-PESA, actually work?” “It works just like Uber?” I replied. “How?”, she asked surprised. “Like Uber, they use a very sophisticated Continue Reading →
In the last post, I made a comment, about what I called a “changing dispensation”, and many of you were quite intrigued by this, and asked me to explain: Whenever I share a little story, my key objective is to help you extract one or two principles that you can Continue Reading →
I will never forget the first time we had to deal with Blackberry, when they produced their phone for the first time. “Our business model is quite simple”, the sales executive said, to us: “We charge you, $20/customer, per month. And you can charge on top, whatever you want.” My Continue Reading →
One of the fastest growing businesses in the world today is a company called Uber. For those who do not know what Uber is; it is essentially a Mobile App (a computer program, using a cell phone), which makes it possible for you to call a “taxi”. Uber does not Continue Reading →
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