One of the biggest appeals of running an online store is the fact that every corner of your store is available to everyone around the world. But this also has its drawbacks, one of them being that if you run a store that focuses on providing services to people within a certain location; or your store cannot deliver its product to specific states or countries, then you’d need to restrict your services to visi Read more
Choose Possibility is a new book by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. It is part personal story, and part career guide for ambitious professionals. I first learned of Sukhinder in 2012 while watching videos at Stanford’s Entrepreneur corner, where she was interviewed as the founder of Joyus. https://ecorner.stanford.edu/clips/th... Sukhinder has had a remarkable career with stints that in Read more
The 'Cobra Effect' aka the law of unintended consequences: In 19th century India under British colonial rule, authorities decided there were too many venomous cobras in the streets of Delhi, making life uncomfortable for the British residents and their families. To solve this, they offered a reward for every dead cobra residents would bring in. Soon, enterprising locals began to breed cobras to make a living from the Read more
Guest post by Mawuna Kuotonin Editor/Founder SiliconAfrica.com Perhaps there is something to be said for ‘fake it till you make it’ in the startup world . Great stories make great nations. Before nation builders there are great people builders. The saying, “The sun never sets on the British Empire” was true as recently as 1937 when tiny England did, in fact, still have posses Read more