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42: Samson Tusiime – Let your customers help you build the product

Samson is the founder and CEO of SchoolPlus; new generation school information management system that automates most of the school manual processes in Ugandan schools. With SchoolPlus, all processes, department and functions of an institution become automated and streamlined, leading to enhanced transparency, productivity and control and which finally translates to higher overall efficiency. In this episode, Samson shares his entrepreneurial story as well as the lessons he’s learnt as a tech business owner in Uganda.

Recommended Book

Zero to One by Peter Thiel which presents at once, an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.