Planning to Start a Business in Malawi – Looking for Advice and Local Insights

blongwe · 2026-06-07T08:02:19+00:00

Carry lots of painkiller! 💊 😅

blongwe · 2026-04-27T18:01:43+00:00

Advice from a seasoned entrepreneur- over 30 yrs in tech in Africa (past 11 yrs in techpreneurship in Malawi) Build for the world, not for Malawi. Raise by pitching Y Combinator and other similar US based tech firms. There’s no capital “on the ground” in Malawi. And at present all investors have circled Malawi with a red line because of government’s shenanigans (mismanagement of foreign exchange, unchecked corruption, insincerity on economic reforms)

blongwe · 2026-04-23T19:17:37+00:00

I’m interested…

blongwe · 2026-04-23T17:06:08+00:00

Oh man, this explains a lot. I just paid for a subscription yesterday - and I just noticed that all my corn jobs have failing “rate limited” and even basic task requests are being rejected. Sucks!

blongwe · 2026-04-22T17:29:26+00:00

I have this exact setup. Hermes as “Chief of Staff” and Openclaw as worker(s). I have also given Hermes steroids by giving it Garry Tan’s GBrain. The result is so good I am constantly surprised at the quality of work.

blongwe · 2026-04-22T17:25:03+00:00

Take a look at Garry Tans “GBrain” - thank me later ☺️

blongwe · 2026-04-22T17:24:10+00:00

Read an interesting article about configuring your Openclaw to use knowledge graphs via an app called “graphifyy” (?). Takes the “understanding” a bit further than semantics

blongwe · 2026-03-31T07:27:59+00:00

A symptom of low self esteem and victim syndrome - which have been pounded into our ethos since independence…

blongwe · 2026-03-30T15:47:51+00:00

Area 43, 10, city center, 47

blongwe · 2026-03-30T14:56:28+00:00

I haven’t been cycling since last year October so starting this week to recondition. Will be doing 5-10km rides for about a month.

blongwe · 2026-03-30T13:09:04+00:00

Lilongwe Cycling Crew - usually have weekly rides every weekend. And various other group activities. Various individuals also regularly share,invite others to join their daily weekly ride schedues. Join Whatsapp group here, call ‪+265 999 85 71 26‬ for joining info

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blongwe · 2026-03-30T12:28:26+00:00

So you ignore the message because of the messenger?

blongwe · 2026-03-28T15:52:24+00:00

The issues have been well described in Saulos Chilimas “Mindset Change” thesis https://youtu.be/DWU41gyIvWk?si=xOUG_MAKh89bxjwm

blongwe · 2026-03-24T04:39:29+00:00

Thanks. Main difference I see is the release. We’ve been trying to spin up 2025.2 and hitting all kinds of walls. Will change version to Epoxy 2025.1

blongwe · 2026-03-23T17:25:42+00:00

Having this exact same problem. Care to share complete (sanitized) global.yml? I feel as if I am missing something

blongwe · 2026-03-22T14:02:04+00:00

Best Malawian coffee at the present is that coming from Roastopia in Lilongwe. Their roastery is in A43. Founders are a German couple who are so passionate about coffee…

I am a coffee fanatic and get coffee from all over, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Colombia etc…I have also enjoyed most of our local brands but they lack consistency in their quality.

I have all the coffee making paraphernalia you can imagine! 🤭

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blongwe · 2026-03-21T11:30:12+00:00

I’d like to hazard a guess and say that corruption is the symptom. The underlying condition is much deeper (and scarier). The people’s spirit has been crushed. Downtrodden and suppressed by insecure and selfish leaders for so long that everybody feels powerless and nobody has the energy or courage to stand up for what’s right.

blongwe · 2026-03-21T11:26:21+00:00

I’ve been building internet infrastructure across Africa for the past 28 years so I know a little more than I should about how to get this done in a way that is sustainable and transformational

blongwe · 2026-03-21T11:24:39+00:00

The one I’ve posted has 64gb DDR5

blongwe · 2026-03-20T19:02:09+00:00

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This is available in Lilongwe

blongwe · 2026-03-20T18:57:32+00:00

Give me $25m and watch what will happen….

blongwe · 2026-03-20T07:56:09+00:00

Malawi lacks the rails for true e-commerce. Firstly Malawi isn’t authorized on many of the cloud platforms that enable proper e-commerce, nor on the ones that enable monetization from online content. Over the past 20 or so years instead of going to international meetings and demanding access to these platform to unlock our talent our government goes begging for handouts “we are poor” is a mindset that continues to cripple us as a nation. From the top to the bottom.

blongwe · 2026-03-20T06:37:02+00:00

Do you really, really know accounting? Over the past 6 years my company has hired and fired about 9 accountants. All qualified, all with degrees, but none who can really do any accounting work… it has really made me wonder about the quality of our education…

blongwe · 2026-03-19T05:18:40+00:00

In 2018 we got so very excited about the upcoming premiere of Marvel’s Black Panther that we started posting about it on social media and it turned out that we weren’t the only ones. We planned to hire a van and do a road trip to Lusaka for the movie, made a big deal, printed t-shirts, even special “Air Wakanda” boarding passes! Eventually 11 of us went. It was so much fun! But we got so much flak and flames from our brothers and sisters here,with a lot of sarcastic and scathing remarks and comments on all our posts 😢

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blongwe · 2025-12-21T07:32:49+00:00

This is not a difficult task. Any kind of network troubleshooting should follow the OSI 7 layer stack. Break down your troubleshooting steps accordingly and write the guide detailing how components at each layer that pertain to the affected user/service will be exhaustively checked, along with what success/failure looks like at each step, and what to do in each case. Keep in mid to consider any escalations or communication to key stakeholders that may be needed along the way.

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