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Tawanda Kembo

Johannesburg, South Africa

I spend half my time in some server room and the other half in a board room.
I’ve been writing Software since before I went to high school. Over the years, I've mastered my craft in the different IT areas of Software Engineering, Security, System Administration and Data Engineering; So I can hold my own in that server room when I’m debating the engineers on tabs vs spaces.
Despite being (primarily) an Engineer, I’ve also started from scratch, raised VC money and scaled tech companies to thousands and thousands of users (not once but) 3 times and because of my Executi
ve experience in Africa's Tech Space, I’m often called upon to help Company Leads solve hard problems around strategy, security, making difficult technology stack decisions and tackling problems of
scale (such as rapidly building engineering teams).

I want to work on problems where my contribution will have a meaningful impact and I have a bent for working in a high-performance team that is solving a very very difficult problem.

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I have been a Bitcoin Evangelist ever since I discovered the technology in July 2013. I was particularly drawn to it and impressed by it's ability and potential to empower people. Between then and now, I have started the following projects:
- A Bitcoin Exchange exchange in Zimbabwe
- Designed and Bitcoin ATM
- A project called Bitcoin Dictionary and the problem this project aims to solve is that there is no single authoritative source standardised definition of the terms that the people in the Bitcoin space are continually coming up with. Bitcoin Dictionary is putting the definitions of all the Bitcoin-related terms on http://bitcoindictionary.org and allowing contributors to contribute on https://github.com/BitcoinDictionary/bitcoindictionary.

LinkedIn Profile: http://zw.linkedin.com/in/tkembo
About Me: http://about.me/tawandakembo
Quora Profile: https://www.quora.com/Tawanda-Kembo

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I am looking for an outstanding idea to monetize my Android application?

I've just had a look at the app. You have less than 500 installs so you're note going to make any money from advertising. You're also probably not going to make money from selling anything - people who use your app use it because they they want help others and are not charging for it. They are doing it for free because they feel good about it and they don't want to be charged for that either. So freemium model wont' work, limited period promotion model wont work, usage model won't work, in app purchases model (think Zynga/Candy Crush model) won't work and Upsell/Cross-sell model won't work for that reason specifically.
You might have to consider these models:
- A donations model - People make donations to the developer of the app because they feel good about it or they love the app. Wikipedia has used this model successfully. Another way of doing this would be that users (who feel good about helping) make donations to other users who need monetary assistance. And you can keep a transaction fee. Speaking of donations too, you may want let people use crypto currencies such as Bitcoin and Dogecoin to make these donations. The biggest uses of these currencies today are donations/charitable causes. I guess this is because sending money using these currencies have close to zero transaction fees and they allow micropayments - think payments which are less than $1 - you cant make micropayments with VISA or MasterCard.
- You can use a sponsorship model where you use a sponsor to finance you. Let me give an example: There is an organisation called Capital Area Food Bank which distributes food stamps and food hampers in Austin, Texas. A lot of these distributors are volunteers. If you can get that organisation to be one of your users (users who are looking for helpers that is), you can ask them to be a sponsor - lets face it, they have some money and can afford to sponsor a few thousands if they find the app useful. Those are my two satoshis

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Tawanda takes clients very seriously, and is always responsive no mattter how many times you call or email him. He created the most amazing and highly celebrated Website for the organisation I work with, (RAU), and I strongly recommend him for work involving web design and architecture. I have also found Tawanda to be helpful and free to share his knowledge, even on some issues some people would charge for. He has a great attitude and offers good advice on options to take. I am glad he did work for us, and would happily engage him again for related work.

Natasha Msonza Source: LinkedIn

I have worked with Tawanda in designing a website for start up Hub called Muzinda. He is so dedicated, passionate about development patient and results oriented. I wanted the correct things right from the beginning. I would love to work with Him always. His project management skill is excellent and I desired to learn more from Him

Stephen Nyatsine Source: LinkedIn

It’s not very easy to write a recommendation note for Tawanda because its hard to articulate his skills and way of thinking. During the time we worked together in the UZ Web Team, Tawanda was often the most innovative and resourceful person in our team. He is also a natural leader. Tawanda especially thrives in an environment where you are expected to innovate, but with very minimal resources.

Phillip Mlanda Source: LinkedIn

Member since December 2014