Positive Angola
Matilde Guebe
Social Responsibility as a Business Model
Ricardo Marfim dos Santos
Positive Angola
Matilde Guebe
Ensa Administrator
Entrepreneurialism. A complex word. It rhymes with positivism, but also with amateurism. It attracts hope, but also responsibility. It is fashionable. It always has been.
Like everywhere else in the world, new businesses open in Angola every day. Sorry... I should have said start-ups to be more in line with modern times.
They are small, medium and large individual and collective efforts to create a better day, an independence, an occupation. And a preoccupation. A little kitanda shop, a little farm, a distributor, a refinery. There used to be more enthusiasm. Today not so much.
Statistics from around the world show that many new businesses are doomed from the outset. Business management requires art and ingenuity, in addition to financial capacity and even luck. No one is born educated and we have a bad habit of teaching and learning these subjects late.
A group of young friends has done something remarkable and welcome in Angola. They call it the Clube Angolano de Investidores Anjos (Angolan Angel Investors Club). They talk to people. Lots of people. They try to pool many of those people’s few resources to, together, achieve more.
With fundraising (or kixikila, as they say here), they incubate, create, buy, energise and sell various businesses. They are therefore wholesalers of start-ups. Along the way, they also advise, motivate and educate entrepreneurs or apprentices.
They try to achieve the critical mass to arrange the mass with which the economy moves. They expand what little each one has so that, as a whole, they can go further and further. And the real engines are just three: friendship, trust and the desire to make Angola better.
All this in their spare time.
My blessings to these young friends. My blessings to all those who wake up every day and take to the streets with new ideas to build a positive Angola.
Like everywhere else in the world, new businesses open in Angola every day. Sorry... I should have said start-ups to be more in line with modern times.
They are small, medium and large individual and collective efforts to create a better day, an independence, an occupation. And a preoccupation. A little kitanda shop, a little farm, a distributor, a refinery. There used to be more enthusiasm. Today not so much.
Statistics from around the world show that many new businesses are doomed from the outset. Business management requires art and ingenuity, in addition to financial capacity and even luck. No one is born educated and we have a bad habit of teaching and learning these subjects late.
A group of young friends has done something remarkable and welcome in Angola. They call it the Clube Angolano de Investidores Anjos (Angolan Angel Investors Club). They talk to people. Lots of people. They try to pool many of those people’s few resources to, together, achieve more.
With fundraising (or kixikila, as they say here), they incubate, create, buy, energise and sell various businesses. They are therefore wholesalers of start-ups. Along the way, they also advise, motivate and educate entrepreneurs or apprentices.
They try to achieve the critical mass to arrange the mass with which the economy moves. They expand what little each one has so that, as a whole, they can go further and further. And the real engines are just three: friendship, trust and the desire to make Angola better.
All this in their spare time.
My blessings to these young friends. My blessings to all those who wake up every day and take to the streets with new ideas to build a positive Angola.