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What the South African Spaza Shop Teaches Global Business About Innovation — Lessons Also Seen in BYD, NVIDIA, and Tesla | Quick Innovation MBA
Adapted from my new book Quick Innovation MBA – available on Amazon, major bookstores, and the Tiisetso Maloma online store (RSA only). Some ideas also draw from my earlier book on the Future of Township Economies. What if one of the most important innovation laboratories in the world is not in Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, or…
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The Innovation Opportunity Your Data Is Making You Miss — Lessons from BYD, Tesla, NVIDIA and South Africa’s Spaza Shops | Quick Innovation MBA book
Adapted from my new book Quick Innovation MBA – available on Amazon, major bookstores, and the Tiisetso Maloma online store (RSA only). What if you could see what is workable before the measurements exist? Whether you are an investor evaluating the next big bet, an entrepreneur building something that has never existed, an innovator inside…
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Book: Daily Grace & Ubuntu Stoicism
Available at, my webstore (South Africa), Takelot.com, Bargain Books and Exclusive. — Daily Grace & Ubuntu Stoicism is a year-long meditation journey designed to help us see ourselves and the world through the lenses of clarity, compassion, and inner stillness. It weaves together four spiritual and philosophical streams—Stoicism, Ubuntu, Biblical grace, and meditative stillness (Silent Prayer)—to reveal a simple…
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Book: Quick Innovation MBA
Available at, my webstore (South Africa), Takelot.com, Bargain Books and Exclusive. — Quick Innovation MBA is a distilled, high-impact guide that brings together the core ideas from Tiisetso Maloma’s innovation writings—both published and unpublished—to create a clear, complete, and practical understanding of innovation for anyone, at any level.
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Township Economy: Unlocking the Adjacent Possible in South Africa’s Future of Township Economies
The township economy has long been misunderstood — spoken about as a space of poverty, informality, or survival. Yet this narrative ignores a powerful reality: townships generate billions, house massive consumer markets, and form one of the most explosive innovation frontiers in South Africa.
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African Stoicism: Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism | The Rise of a New African Literary Genre
Greetings friends, I want to share something that has brought me a lot of joy and quiet pride. Over the past few years, it seems I may have helped inspire a new literary and philosophical genre — what I call Ubuntu Stoicism, and what others refer to as Afro-StoicismorAfrican Stoicism.
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James Altucher Helped Me Write My First Book — and I Ended Up Lying to Him. I Also Never Intended to Build a BookTech Business | VentureBooks OS
I never planned on being a book publisher. I never planned on writing 10 books. And I definitely didn’t plan on building a BookTech company. Yet here we are When I first thought about writing a book, I stumbled on a post by James Altucher — my favourite blogger and author at the time (still…
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The Day I Failed to Do Business With David Goggins and Grant Cardone | Potential Millions Lost | Building an Operating System for Book Publishing: VentureBooks OS
I got into book publishing through a few small mistakes in 2016–2018, and I can’t believe that today I’m preparing to build a book and IP tech startup: VentureBooks OS.
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Is ESD a Scam? Over-Mentored, Under-Funded: Entrepreneurs Say It’s an Industrial Complex That Uses Them as Bait – Feeding Corporate Staff and Consultants, Leaving Only Crumbs | First Principle Solutions
Some of the ideas will feature in my upcoming economics book, Robust Manifesto Nation. “Entrepreneurs are heroes in our society. They fail for the rest of us.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Skin in the Game) – – – I recently shared a LinkedIn post by someone criticizing the Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) system –…
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Book | Robust Manifesto Nation
How do we make a nation truly robust—yours or mine—for the betterment of all, in the realest, most dynamic way possible? Robust Manifesto Nation is a collection of what I call robust-dynamic-ideas—not theories, not ideologies, but practical principles that can help nations live in this complex, unpredictable world. This is a book that kills fragile…
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Ready to Connect 5000 Rural Schools in South Africa — But ICASA, Not BEE, Is Blocking It
My book Innovate Like Elon Musk is available on this blog, Amazon and SA bookstores. If you follow tech news — or Elon Musk’s social media rants — you might have come across the claim that Starlink can’t operate in South Africa because of “racist laws.” He once said, “Starlink can’t get a license to…
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BEE (BBBEE) Made Simple: What It Is, Who Needs It, and How the Scoreboard Actually Works
Apartheid wasn’t just racism. It was economic warfare. It was a mix of genocidal tendencies and structural slavery — just without the whips and cotton fields of the American South.