An analogy between business and marriage; appreciating how developers should approach the establishment of business and start-ups.

2. Developers
wed
Business
GDays Uganda 2013
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3. FREE MARRIAGE COUNSELLING
FREE MARRIAGE COUNSELLING
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4. Make Love, Not War
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Entrepreneurship = Love Story
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Good Business = Strong Family
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Partners = Partners
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Wedding = Registration
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Products = Offspring
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Business Operations = Marriage
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5. Developers
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6. Developers
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Young, flighty, excitable and excited
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Have just started using their tools
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Have just developed skills
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Eager to put them to use
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“Puppy” love; easily infatuated, susceptible to silly
crushes
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Easy-going and rewarding
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7. Business
Logo
of
Develope
r
Who
Paid
YOUR
Attention
Logo
At
Could
GDAYS
Go
UGANDA
Here
2013
Another Successful Ugandan Startup
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And
YOUR
Logo
Could
Go
Here

8. Business
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Mostly grounded
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Not easily excited unless results are on the horizon
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Focussed on tangible goals & objectives
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Planning all the time & every day
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Keeps evolving
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Serious almost till death
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Difficult yet rewarding
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9. The Romance
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Get to know each other
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Spend quality time
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Pick up on likes & dislikes
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Build Trust, Honour, Respect
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Partners, Friends, Neighbours, Maids & Gardeners
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Invest & be Nice, even Loving
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Children out of wedlock = accepted easily in Business
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10. The Courtship
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Talk a lot
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Crack jokes
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Disclose as much as possible
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Be impressive but stay real
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11. The Wedding
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Plan it well - complete with a budget
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Go to a well-recognised Church and Clergy
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Get Counselling
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The Case of the Ex
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Celebrate it so you forever take it seriously
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12. The Marriage
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NOW, it begins
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Going home every day to be together
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Building the business
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Stepping out together
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Networking & entertaining
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Getting children
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Living life
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13. To A Ripe Old Age
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14. Children
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Sleepless nights through infancy
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Raising them is very involving
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They eventually become costly
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Childbirth isn’t ever easy
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Take time to conceive
Sometimes they are rogues

15. But What Are Your
Issues?
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