The Danger of Building for the Future Without Funding the Present

The Danger of Building for the Future Without Funding the Present

Sometimes we’re not dumb, we’re just moving too fast.

Workshops, bootcamps, and accelerators can be overwhelming. You’re fed information back-to-back, one day after the next, without time to pause, reflect, or apply what you’ve learned before moving to the next concept.

One of the biggest mistakes I’ve observed and personally experienced is getting funding and then rushing to complete the entire project, thinking you’re ticking all the right boxes…

But you forget one thing: income.

We’ve all seen it in Zimbabwe, a small shopping centre or fuel station opens before it’s fully furnished. Shops are half-built, some don’t even have electricity yet, but tenants are already moving in, trading, and paying rent. Why?

Because the income has to start flowing before the project is “perfect.”

These everyday examples are lessons we ignore. We see them, but don’t comprehend them not until we look at our own startups, our own projects, and realize we’ve launched products that never saw the market.

In tech, we call them localhost projects things that only lived on your computer. Never launched, never tested, never validated. They died quietly in the background.

So here’s my question:

👉🏽 What can be done to make entrepreneurship more practical and easier to understand especially for first-time founders and rural innovators?

👉🏽 Who’s out there teaching income-first thinking instead of project-perfection?

This isn’t just a mindset shift it’s survival.