I love running my company, but of course, the risky business of entrepreneurship comes with its stressors. To clear my head and keep my body and mind in shape, I maintain a strict running regimen and make sure to hit the pavement almost every day. This is where I do some of my best thinking, and during a recent run, I realized how closely the sport aligns with my business mentality.
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There are over 7 billion people in the world. A single trait sets a small handful apart; celebrated and emulated individuals have earned something more valuable than gold. Aretha Franklin knows the answer—R.E.S.P.E.C.T. You can command obedience, you can cause fear, you can buy services, but respect? You’ve gotta earn that. It’s such a heavy word, filled with reverence and awe. Like an oak tree, it doesn’t grow overnight. But intentionally and mindfully living in a way that cultivates respect is an investment that will yield more than money could ever buy.
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At the opening of a week-long ICT exhibition fair in Rwanda, the republic of Korea pledged to build an ICT innovation center at the Integrated Polytechnic Regional Center (IPRC) and a training centre for teachers; jointly worth $9 million. This was disclosed by the Korean ambassador to Rwanda, Hwang Soon-talk, at the fair designed to promote ICT awareness. He said the move was a reaffirmation of his government’s commitment to maintaining favourable relations with Rwanda, adding that the fair would inspire students and educate them about the benefits of ICT.
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Internet access is expected to see a huge boost in Rwanda following Liquid Telecom plan to invest $34 million in high-speed broadband services. The investment will see Liquid Telecom provide extensive Fibre To The Home (FTTH) infrastructure, which offers up to 100 Mbps, unlimited capacity and connections that enable the usage of high definition video, live TV streaming, uninterrupted VoIP calling and real-time online gaming.
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In a city renowned not only for its commercial prowess, but its buzzing streets, traffic jams and ear-bursting noise, a noiseless working day seems far from the imagination. But today, Lagosian, residents of a city nicknamed the New York of Africa, bore witness to a horn-free day today. In a bid to reduce noise pollution in Lagos, Africa’s most populous city with over 20 million people, mandated every driver on its roads to steer clear of their horns and other related noisy devices.
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Gloo.ng’s CEO says the emerging Nigerian e-commerce site expects its revenue is to reach $1 million by the end of the year, a statistics that shows the awesome growth opportunity and potential in the country’s online commerce sector. Having risen to Nigeria’s biggest online grocery sector, Gloo.ng has carved a space in Nigeria’s e-commerce sector, a space it is rapidly enlarging by offering products well beyond the grocery category – from household appliances to pharmaceutical products. Its progress also shows how amazingly spacious the Nigeria’s online space remains, despite the impressive size of retail heavyweights like Jumia and Konga.
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Uganda’s government said on Thursday that it plans to advertise a public-private partnership (PPP) tender next year, worth up to $1 billion, for a new road linking its capital to Jinja, an industrial hub in its east, the road PPP will be Uganda’s first in the road sector. The East African country’s government adopted PPP in 2010 to help fund the prospective oil producer’s dilapidated infrastructure, crucial for ramping up flows of foreign investment. Reuters quotes Dan Alinange, spokesperson for the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), saying that the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has been hired as the road project’s transaction advisor to help with the tender.
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Emerging internet service provider, Smiles Communications has launched its 4G LTE broadband service in Abuja, the country’s capital, as it expands its services beyond Nigeria’ commercial capital Lagos. The local internet provider now has presence in three cities; Lagos, Abuja and Ibadan, a neighbour of Lagos. “Abuja is a strategic location for the growth of the company and we have made sure the service is at its best in the city”, Tom Allen, Chief Operating Officer of Smile Group said during the Launch.
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Jumeirah Group has announced three new management agreements in China. The Jumeirah Haikou Resort, set in an exclusive golf community on a private island in Hainan; the Jumeirah Wuhan, occupying a prime city centre location near to Hankou; and Jumeirah Nanjing, which will be located in the Hexi new business district. All three are part of mixed-use developments.
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Davood Keshavarazian, the director of the department for mineral discoveries of the Iranian Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade, has announced that Iran is the world’s third largest producer of decorative stones. Keshavarazian added that 16.5 million tons of decorative stones were extracted from the country’s mines during the last Iranian calendar year (March 2013-March 2014), the ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
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