My mistakes were a key ingredient in unlocking my success

Dickson Mushabe can best be described as a man with a knack for business. The enterprising ICT expert is the founder and CEO of Hostalite, a renowned Web Hosting, Design and Software Development company in Uganda and East Africa. A spin-off company called Hostalite Cyber Academy trains students with experience-based learning in information technology. Information Technology […]

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KIU Final Year Student Saved from Missing Exam, Gets Support From Dolphin Funds

A final year student from Kampala International University (KIU) is among the many Ugandans who have been positively transformed by Airtel’s Uganda Needs More campaign that was launched at the start of March 2022. The student was able to get financial support through a crowdfunding website founded by Dickson Mushabe. The website is a community-driven platform that […]

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Dickson Mushabe has launched a community driven platform that enables individuals and organisations to raise funds for worthy causes

When the Economic Misfit first run this story, it caught our eye. It also didn’t come as a surprise to his peers that Dickson Mushabe, an entrepreneur and author, would think of a ‘techy’ way to give during these tough times. Like many, he understood that a large number of people depended on daily income […]

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Dickson Mushabe Launches a Fundraising Platform to help Ugandans During the Lockdown

Techprenuer, Founder and CEO of Hostalite; Mr.Dickson Mushabe launches Dolphin Fund https://dolphinfund.org/; a community-driven digital fundraising platform to help individuals, small businesses digitally and seamlessly receive donations from friends & family in Uganda and in diaspora as well as well-wishers. Mushabe in an interview with SoftPower News, said the platform will be much of help for Ugandans […]

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Uganda gets community fundraising platform for COVID-19

A Ugandan Innovator, Dickson Mushabe has launched Dolphin Fund, a community-driven fundraising platform that has immediately started helping Ugandans to fundraise from friends and well-wishers all over the world. The platform comes at a time when the whole world is facing an unending crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic which has ruined the world’s economy with uncountable threats. In […]

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Give your website a face

In Kampala today, it is very easy to find a client who needs a website. You can do a pitch and in less than an hour you have all the deal in your hands. But this was not the case before. It is the NGOs that promoted the use of websites in Uganda and that […]

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My money is just a click away

What you need to know: Easy dime. With just a laptop computer, Dickson Mushabe started an online company, a business in which he just presses a button and he earns. He shares his journey with Patrick Wabuteya. My journey as an entrepreneur started immediately after my Senior Six at Mengo Senior School in 2000. While […]

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