Find your greatness: This is how we are supposed to do it! Let me first tell you some #BreakingNews! This Saturday afternoon I will have the honor of taking part in a Presidential Youth Entrepreneurship town hall with His Excellency President Paul Kagame in Kigali, Rwanda. I’ll share more here very shortly so you can RSVP to attend if you…
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“Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps!” (Brian Halligan) As I have told you before, #Innovation is the heartbeat of our business. Every day I take time to study technologies that could help us offer new and better products for our customers and communities. Liquid Telecom Kenya plays a central role in our research into new technologies. Many…
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision”. (Peter Drucker) I will never forget the first time I sold my business. It was my first company which I started way back in 1986, and it was called Retrofit. It was the largest electrical engineering construction business. It had been doing really well until I got into…
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Take the leap! Statements like “income generating project” reminds me of a civil servant who, having decided he is not making enough income at his job, embarks on a scheme such as raising chickens as a means of supplementing his income. As long as what he (or she) is doing does not interfere with paid full-time work, or use state…
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Show me your favourite version of the Jerusalema Dance Challenge! One of the most extraordinary phenomena of the last few months is the #Jerusalema Dance Challenge! The world has never seen anything like this, and it is fitting that this uplifting song should fill the world during this gloomy time of the pandemic. We have quite a few versions of…
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Time for action! Back to serious business again today and the subject is: who on this platform is taking what you have learned here and putting it into action? I want to hear your entrepreneurship ACTION stories. What exactly are you “Doing”? Every day what steps are YOU actually taking? One of you suggested in a recent comment here that…
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There’s an old story some of you have probably heard called “The Wolf You Feed”. It goes something like this (I have adapted it a little). One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all. One is Evil. It is…
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You are not alone amidst the COVID-19 storm. Let’s #TeamTalk. As entrepreneurs in the midst of a global crisis impacting nearly all the world’s economies, and ways of working, we must now develop #Innovations which will give us useful new #Products for the #Post-COVID business environment. Until a vaccine is developed and approved, many people will continue to work remotely, if possible. Many others will be…
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The BIG winner is…? When I started my telecoms business in 1993, the number of people in Africa who had access to a telephone was about 0.75%. I’m one of the entrepreneurs who helped change it to 75%! My colleagues and I who started businesses like MTN, Bharti, and Glo were big winners. Now here is your own opportunity: Only…
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#Urgent pause: Wash your hands, open your heart (Part 2) My friends, you must pay attention (we have NOT been this way before) but do not panic. Instead, make a plan. Just about six weeks ago I wrote you here to alert you about the COVID-19 epidemic that had hit Wuhan, China. It’s now reached about 117 countries including around 18…
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