The social network that you can wear
- Lifestyle
- February 6, 2015
Strive Masiyiwa is a man after many entrepreneurs’ heart. As a man who has been in business since 1986, his experiential insights on the African business and entrepreneurship clime is a mantra for many African entrepreneur. In 2001, approximately five months and twenty-eight days after winning a bid to float Econet Wireless in Nigeria, he
READ MOREIn 2014, one of the most prestigious global magazines, Fortune, named a young Kenyan woman Juliana Rotich, as one the “50 Greatest Leaders in the World”. This was an amazing accolade for anyone, particularly someone who was still only 37 years old. It was also a major paradigm shift: -Juliana is not from the West
READ MOREAs an entrepreneur or an entrepreneurial business, there is nothing better, than creating a new product or service, that no one has ever seen before, and turning it into a blockbuster commercial success. There is however another path to success, and this is called, the “fast follower”. There are a lot of organizations who are
READ MOREWritten by Zimbabwe’s richest man, Strive Masiyiwa. This post first appeared on his blog. When I was still only 17 years old, I asked an elderly gentleman who was a headmaster at a school, about buying shares on a stock exchange. He was not particularly rich, but every day he would get a newspaper and
READ MOREWritten by Zimbabwe’s richest man, Strive Masiyiwa. This post first appeared on his blog. Now I want to talk about investing, as many of you have been asking about this subject. So I’m going to make a short series on investing. Let me begin by saying, if every post I have ever written was on
READ MOREBy Strive Masiyiwa, Econet Wireless founder and Zimbabwe’s richest man. “Nothing in the world, can take the place of PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION: Talent will not; nothing is more common, than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; un rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. PERSISTENCE
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