The operator's manual for building here.
Step-by-step guides and ready-to-use templates for the things every Zimbabwean founder has to figure out the hard way — registration, raising, hiring, fiscalisation, and getting paid.
Registering a startup in Zimbabwe without losing a month
The actual order of operations — name reservation, incorporation, ZIMRA registration, and the bank account — with the forms people skip and the queues you can avoid.
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42 guidesGetting fiscalised: the ZIMRA FDMS walkthrough
What fiscalisation actually requires, which devices qualify, and how to connect your system to the FDMS without a consultant.
Build a data room investors won't bounce from
The exact folder structure, the documents to have ready, and the red flags that quietly kill a round.
Your first five hires, and how to pay them legally
Contracts, NSSA and PAYE, the contractor-vs-employee line, and what to do before anyone starts.
Selling to corporates and government in Zimbabwe
How procurement actually works, who signs, and how to survive a 90-day payment cycle without dying.
Designing for low data and patchy networks
Offline-first patterns, payload budgets, and the UX choices that keep your app usable on a $40 phone.
Founder agreements & vesting, the local edition
Splitting equity, vesting schedules that hold up, and the clauses that prevent a co-founder blow-up.
Templates & tools
New playbook every fortnight.
We turn the questions founders keep asking at the hub into guides you can follow. Get each one as it drops.