Entrepreneurial Nugget From A Botswana Writer

Having been a struggling entrepreneur and writer, the best advice I can give to anyone is, don’t wait for anyone to give you a big break, and don’t think anyone will give you an oppourtunity. I wasted so many years going around submitting proposals, doing presentations. And what did I get in return, a stack of rejection letters, and many empty promises. It is only when I stopped looking to anyone, and realised that I needed to create my own big breaks, when I decided that I did not need anyone to give me opportunities, that I would create them for myself, and that I would finance my own dreams that I began to see some progress.

The other thing is learning to start small, and growing organically, even if you have to start with a tuck shop, start with that, the big dreams and idea will follow.

-          Barolong Mouwane; Author of “The Good Dictator.”