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Weighty business nuggets for the year 2023

By Simba Mswaka AS the year comes to a close, it’s time for founders to reassess what went wrong, what went right and how one

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Top 10 Start-ups to look out for in 2022: NeatCraft

By Amanda-Ellen Jojo NEATCRAFT was founded in October 2020 with a desire to substitute imports with domestic production (import substitution) and create employment. It was

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Top 10 Start-ups to look out for in 2022: Reynard Arnold

By Amanda-Ellen Jojo FOUNDED in 2019, Reynard Arnold is a brand that speaks to Zimbabwe and can be benchmarked by other international brands.  It is

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Top 10 Start-ups to look out for in 2022: TisuMazwi

By Amanda-Ellen Jojo FOUNDED by Fungayi Sox as Nhandemutande Media in November 2018 before rebranding to TisuMazwi on its 3rd Anniversary in 2021, TisuMazwi is

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AfriBlocks

By Amanda-Ellen Jojo AFRIBLOCKS was founded in 2020 in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic.  It was founded by Tongayi Choto and Roger Roman.

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Building in Public

By Simba Mswaka START-UPS are generally afraid of having their ideas stolen and some of them keep things as close to their chest as possible

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The Silicon Valley Model with an African Twist

By Simba Mswaka By Simba Mswaka SILICON Valley is the bastion of big tech and is the West Coast equivalent of Wall Street. Millionaires and

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Building Brands in the Midst of the Pandemic

History has it that some of the greatest brands were built in the midst of a crisis. Entrepreneurs by nature are problem solvers, problems emanate

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Advise for Young CEOs & Founders

By Munyaradzi Zindi Chikomba You Are The Engine Of The Business Model As a founder you are the engine of the business and everything that

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Success happens when opportunity meets preparedness: The story of Nash Paints Boss

WHILE the country was reeling in crisis around 2006 until 2008 and hyper-inflation was at its peak, some enterprising individuals were observing and identifying gaps

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