David Wampamba

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  • A millionaire despite offering a world changing product for free for over 20 years.

    A millionaire despite offering a world changing product for free for over 20 years.

    Today I would like to publish about the creater of the web who happens to inspire me a lot because I resonate with his works.
    If you don’t know him, his real name is Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee from United Kingdom, born on June 8th, 1955 and a professor, computer scientist, engineer and public speaker widely known as Tim Berners-Lee.
    I think during his early days of employment there was a challenge to share and update information not only by the researchers where he used to work at CERN. In 1980 he proposed a solution which would for decades be change the entire planet.
    So he proposed a project based on the concepts of hypertext, to solve this problem among researchers.
    Though HyperText Markup Language was achieved in 1990, a decade after his proposal, he provided it to the world free of cost without any patents and licenses whatsover. In my personal opinion, I doubt if google, facebook and numerous popular web platforms would be in existence the HTML invention and being free of charge. Would I be able to send emails and blog?
    Some sources say his networth is $50M, rich enough to retire. The challenge we face today as young men and women is our ability to put in a lot of efforts to solove a problem we all face and open it to world for free.
    Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee has never put it to rest, at 62 years, a World changer he is still an advocate for the web, he has never made HTML private, he still teaches and talk to people.
    A take way from all this. People matter.
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  • What vs Why in business.

    Many of us from East Africa start up businesses on the principle of results. I want to have some income, I want to be respected, I want to feed my family or I want to be called so and so. As if our sales will be automatic which in reality it can never be. What if we pulled plug on Why and What principles?
    Embracing “Why” when involving in any business puts us in pole position to succeed since it  pushes one to look at the realistic bit of things.
    Why is the attraction of How, What, Where and When.
    Without why, one is set to running a business by default as opposed to design. The most successful business people in the world observe it. Take for example, facebook. Mark Zuckerberg had to ask  why start facebook.com, How will it work and help in daily life, Where will facebook used (Who will use facebook) and When.
    Whatever answers, he got must be the reason why we use this platform everyday, everywhere and everyone virtually uses it.
    Additionally embracing “What” helps you define an idea (business) or be part of one. This definition is also the reason why others come on board.
    Of course Why defines the purpose for what a solution is created but not everyone will comprehend the why, this is when the What will come to help the people you are talking to understand.
    The easier it is for them to understand, the easier it is for them to work with you.
    See you at the top! 🙂

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