The Prosper Chikomo National Railway Sector Turnaround & Innovation Competition for Zimbabwe The Prize Network comprises of all kinds of interested stakeholders and is designed to facilitate the winning contestants to establish their businesses, business connections and networks, improve their capital raising prospects, and to foster intra-industry and cross-industry collaboration for the purpose of turning around and developing the Zimbabwean railway sector.
Interested stakeholders in the Prize Network include sponsors, strategic partners, government ministries, State-Owned Enterprises, parastatals, private sector, NGOs, donors, high net worth individuals, retired experts, academic institutions, mentors, innovation hubs, tech hubs, investors, financiers, and other acceptable interested parties who want to play a role in the turnaround and the development of the Zimbabwean railway sector and the Zimbabwean economy.
Contestants in this contest are going to need all the support that they can get. This is an opportunity for you to create new strategic business partnerships, make connections with innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative people who could bring a competitive edge to your business.
When Steve Jobs was just a young guy, he asked one of the greatest businessmen in America, Bill Hewlett, the co-founder of Hewlett Packard (HP), to give him some computer parts and he got them and a job. Decades later, Steve Job’s company would be very prosperous and ahead of HP, and someone made fun of HP and was strongly reprimanded by Steve Jobs who gave him a history lesson.
Later as a young computer entrepreneur, Steve Jobs went to a company called Xerox where he was shown the prototype of a mouse and a graphical user interface that used windows instead of text. Through working with Xerox, he was able to make a computer that the common person could operate without special training. The mouse became standard on computers. His computer company went on to become a US$1 trillion company, even bigger than Xerox.
We never know what businesses and entrepreneurs, innovators, and creative people that we support today could become tomorrow. That support is what will drive innovations and Zimbabwe forward into the future. If there is a time that you should give back to Zimbabwe, the time is now.
I could have waited to run this contest when I had money or I got rich but I decided the time is now, what if I never get the chance to do this later? You don’t have to wait. You have skills, expertise, access, connections, resources, computer parts, hardware and software, that could be used by a contestant who has a high potential entry and Zimbabwe’s future will be secure.
We could either wait for Zimbabwe to develop economically or lead the economic development of Zimbabwe from the front, and in the trenches.
By joining the Prize Network, you get the chance to interact with the contestants and also to read some or all of their entries and help any way you can. Help may be free, billed, or commercial. You just tell me what you can offer and that is what you can offer. It is not just money that contestants require, in most cases they require customers and access to markets. Mentorship is also a benefit some contestants would find valuable. Whatever you can offer will be the prize. If you are not sure what to offer or how you can help, get in touch and I will be happy to brainstorm with you.
Contestants in this contest are going to need all the support that they can get. This is an opportunity for you to create new strategic business partnerships, make connections with innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative people who could bring a competitive edge to your business. When Steve Jobs was just a young guy, he asked one of the greatest businessmen in America, Bill Hewlett, the co-founder of Hewlett Packard (HP), to give him some computer parts and he got them and a job. Decades later, Steve Job’s company would be very prosperous and ahead of HP, and someone made fun of HP and was strongly reprimanded by Steve Jobs who gave him a history lesson, of how he got where he was.
Later as a young pioneering computer entrepreneur, Steve Jobs went to a company called Xerox where he was shown the prototype of a mouse and a graphical user interface that used windows instead of text. Through working with Xerox, he was able to make a computer that the common person could operate without special training. The mouse became standard on computers. His computer company eent on to become a US$1 trillion company, even bigger than Xerox.
We never know what businesses and entrepreneurs, innovators, and creative people that we support today could become tomorrow. That support is what will drive innovations and Zimbabwe forward into the future. If there is a time that you should give back to Zimbabwe, the time is now.
I could have waited to run this contest when I had money or I got rich but I decided the time is now, what if I never get the chance to do this later? You don’t have to wait. You have skills, access, connections, resources, hardware and software, that could be used by a contestant with a high potential entry. We could either wait for Zimbabwe to develop economically or lead the economic development of Zimbabwe from the front, and in the trenches.
By joining the Prize Network, you get the chance to interact with the contestants and also to read some or all of their entries and help any way you can. Help may be free, billed, or commercial. You just tell me what you can offer and that is what you can offer. It is not just money that contestants require, in most cases they require customers and access to markets. Mentorship is also a benefit some contestants would find valuable. Whatever you can offer will be the prize. If you are not sure what to offer or how you can help, get in touch and I will be happy to brainstorm with you.