by Nsovo Shimange | Sep 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Nobody dreams about gutter cleaning. When people imagine becoming entrepreneurs, they tend to imagine businesses that are exciting to talk about: technology companies, fashion brands, restaurants, apps, media companies or something sufficiently new that it feels like...
by Nsovo Shimange | Sep 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Boring is not enough. I built a formula for separating ordinary businesses from genuinely attractive opportunities. For a long time, I thought “boring” was a useful filter for finding businesses worth building. I still think it is, but I no longer think it is enough....
by Nsovo Shimange | Sep 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
At 41, I have started thinking about the scorecard differently. For most of my adult life, the obvious measures of progress were the familiar ones: Earn more, Progress professionally, Improve your standard of living, Travel more, Buy better things, and ...
by Nsovo Shimange | Oct 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
A true story of building a six-figure home services business in 30 days with nothing but a laptop, Google, and WhatsApp. A Different Kind of Business Story Most business stories start with a big idea, a lightbulb moment, or a garage full of prototypes. Mine started...
by Nsovo Shimange | Sep 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Quitting the “Good Job” Everyone Wants “You’ve got such a great job, why would you leave?” I heard that more than once. From friends. From colleagues. From mentors who meant well. And to be fair, they weren’t wrong.I had a solid corporate career. I had the...
by Nsovo Shimange | Sep 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Not Every Boring Business Is the Right One There’s a growing wave of people waking up to a powerful truth: You don’t need a flashy startup idea to build wealth. You just need a simple, boring business that solves a real problem. But here’s the catch: Not every boring...
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