The thing with self-employment
Self-employment is great. But it demands more than just being passionate about your product. Jump in with eyes wide open, it can be a rocky ride!
Thoughts and insights on the Malawi technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Self-employment is great. But it demands more than just being passionate about your product. Jump in with eyes wide open, it can be a rocky ride!
Entrepreneurs, mHub and British Council talk tech and social entrepreneurship, the policy environment and innovation in Malawi.
Malawi needs to rethink jobs. Opportunities for seed financing and business training are available. Mindset change will also help!
Malawi needs to build enterprises owned by indigenous Malawians with finance from indigenous Malawians. Because mere bootstrapping will fail at this quest.
With mass redundancies, has self-employment become the new default? It’s not an easy road. But what other options do we have?
Malawi has a range of electronic payment solutions like mobile money and debit cards. So why do we insist on using and accepting cash?