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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:info@bulls.co.zw?subject=Advertise%20Rates"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=1215 height=413 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D517DF.EAD681D0"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=wp-caption-text style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:23.4pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:0.875rem'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>This was Chinese billionaire Jack Ma in Ghana on Saturday, speaking at the inaugural edition of the “Netpreneur Prize” – a $10 million initiative set up by the Alibaba founder to support digital entrepreneurship on the continent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:23.4pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:0.875rem'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>Motivational rhetoric like this is part of the mantra that, faced with governments failing to deliver meaningful growth and jobs, Africa must look to its young entrepreneurs to drive development. Armed with smartphones and a can-do attitude, the argument goes, they can innovate their way to success and develop Africa in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:23.4pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:0.875rem'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>If only.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:23.4pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:0.875rem'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>Like all business, entrepreneurship doesn’t take place in a vacuum, with success generally depending on the right conditions. This includes government policy, education, infrastructure, research and development, and a healthy financial sector.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:23.4pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:0.875rem'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>This is according to the Global Entrepreneurship Index, which ranks 137 countries according to their suitability for entrepreneurship. Fifteen of the bottom twenty are in sub-Saharan Africa, with Nigeria and Kenya – leading lights in Africa’s entrepreneurship scene – coming in at 101 and 109 respectively. Jack Ma’s China sits at 43.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:23.4pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:0.875rem'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>Even with the right environment, it’s an uphill struggle. In the US, first on the index, almost all startups fail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:23.4pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:0.875rem'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'>Africa’s entrepreneurial potential is not in doubt, but realising it will take more than motivational rhetoric. –Howwemadeitinafrica<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:23.4pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'><img border=0 width=620 height=412 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D59FEE.CEFA2330" alt="https://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/COSTECH620.jpg"></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0in;line-height:19.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.2pt;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Invest Wisely!</span></i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Bulls n Bears<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Telephone: <a href="tel:%2B263%204%202927658" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>+263 4 2927658</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Cellphone: <a href="tel:%2B263%2077%20344%201674" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;background:white;text-decoration:none'>+263 719 441 674</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Alt. 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