The school of life is full of fantastic lessons, and there is nothing more challenging today than working in the ICT industry as an entrepreneur, and within that industry, there is probably no more challenging space than Africa. Because, although ICT practitioners always have recourse to escape in a virtual world --working and creating virtual products for online customers paying by online transfer -- Africa has a way of impinging on virtuality through its power failures, regulations and sheer earthiness (humidity and/or dust). 

I found a delightful personal blog today by such an African entrepreneur, Joe Botha. He blogs a list of lessons learned that are definitely not stale even after 4 years. Here are my favourites on the lessons he learned at entrepreneur University:

Those three have to be my favourites, in no particular order. Joe has a long list, with riders and provisos, they're fabulous. 

It shows: a University degree is never stale.