Back in June I had an opportunity to meet a Tel Aviv based entrepreneur whilst covering PIVOTEast in Nairobi. During his presentation at PIVOTEast he spoke a lot on the […]
Recently Zimpapers took a huge step into online business with a news hub that represents all their print editions as well as as a new site targeted at sports news. […]
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH THE NAMES OF THE WINNERS. So there has been a lot of hype about the Google Inbox app. It has been making waves on the internet […]
23 October 2014 The ZOL Startup Challenge the mentorship program has started really well. The first session was on business modelling, with a focus on the Lean Startup way of […]
Last week Techzim held the semi-finals for the 2014 edition of the ZOL Startup Challenge and we had the privilege of watching presentations from 23 startups demonstrating their business cases. […]
ZOL Startup Challenge Frequently Asked Questions 1. How do I enter? To enter, you just need to submit your application by simply filling a form that gives us details about […]
Taking place in parallel with our ZOL Startup Challenge meet-up Week, the annual IFA was taking place in Berlin halfway across the world. We may have not been there but […]
A few days ago part of the Techzim team was in Bulawayo for the ZOL Startup Challenge Meetup that was held at NUST. While the City of Kings provided a warm […]
Title Sponsor ZOL Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe’s largest Internet Service Provider, has been the consistent key sponsor of the Startup Challenge since the beginning in 2011. The company has dedicated its resources […]
Live Stream: ZOL Startup Challenge 201 2014 Format introduction Hashtag: #ZOLChallenge
I am enthused by one author who sells the proposition, “Throw away your NDAs out the window”. He stresses one major point that I agree with, that is, what you […]
Recently I accompanied a sick relative for a medical checkup at one of our government hospitals. It took over five minutes for the on call nurse to find her name in the register book and verify her appointment.
The year kicked off with one of the largest ISPs in Zimbabwe ZOL, announcing that it had been acquired by Liquid Telecom, a move which resulted in the Econet Wireless Group cementing its position as Zimbabwe’s largest telecoms firm.
After their success at the FMNA ZeTXT Apps Challenge we caught up with the team behind the winning app mTutor to see how much progress they have made to commercialise […]
On Friday this week, the JumpStart community will hold its second event. This event covers a topic that concerns many a would-be entrepreneur in Zimbabwe; that of Intellectual Property (IP), specifically, the answer to the question; “How is my IP protected?”, or a more direct variation of the question; “What if big company X steals…
With less than two days left before the close of the year, we thought we’d post a listing of all the top stories we covered this year. This has been our busiest year since.
Most of you readers will be logging off your work machines this week, and since most of our readers access Techzim from work, we just want to express our gratitude while we still have your attention.
Webdev, the internet company behind Zimbabwe’s most successful online classifieds will be launching a social networking website in the coming weeks. So far the website is called simply Social but we’re told there may be a change of name. Visiting the website’s address on social.co.zw loads a ‘launching soon’ banner and some points about what…
There is not a single startup in the world that needs telling that raising capital challenge, more so the Zimbabwean startup. So, whenever there is something or someone that wants […]
As we all know, Zimbabwe has never been more reliant on its children living outside the country. From January to October 2023, Zimbabwe received $1.47bn in remittances, an 8% increase over 2022. […]
A Zimbabwean tech startup, Kura is hoping to upend the mobile money market with a digital wallet that offers consumers no fees for transacting. The service, co-founder Michael Charangwa explains, […]
The Zimbabwean government will need to make up its mind on financial inclusion soon. Their love-hate relationship with mobile money and Lite bank accounts needs to stop. In its never-ending […]
Most people will tell you that ride hailing will not work in Zimbabwe, the citizens are too poor to afford it. Yet, Bolt, a ride-hailing platform from Estonia with operations […]
Growing up in an urban area has one unfortunate result – you do not intuitively connect food with agriculture. All you know to do is walk into an air conditioned […]
That is a scary fact, the Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union (ZIBAWU) reports that 75% of jobs in the sector have been lost since the year 2000. Is it […]
Walking the streets of Detroit was a strange experience. Here I was in the great automotive city which is beautiful by the way and yet it felt…empty. I knew that […]
Imagine having a chip on your forehead (666-style) that acts as an access key, granting access to a house, office, and car whilst being a bank and medical aid card […]
You know the deal in Zimbabwe, at any given time you need to have the most accurate USD to ZWL exchange rate, just in case money needs to exchange hands. […]