It’s our time, plain and simple. The Manufactured Solution, me and my team reach code complete meaning we are happy with the boring task of creating hundreds of thousands of lines of code the past several years. Now it is the phase to start visualizing to our customers what we have to offer and reward those who been down with us from day one.

Many of you know, I did not get support from the Black community which was a disappointment. I went around the world looking for patterns and practices to apply as success models but something happened along the journey. People around the world I interacted with became interested in what I was doing and wanted to support me to help them as well. The world was more appreciative than the Black community and I accepted God had bigger plans for me to help a lot more people than what I originally intended.

The next steps are simple – it’s time to show and tell what we got to offer. I’m very excited about our platforms. View the Vista providing the storytelling. The Merchant and the Flow revolutionary product-service-system allowing merchants to quickly set up physically or digitally to buy, rent, reserve. Kolin-Avers giving us the media distribution power that we need. Stony|Ellis a digital asset servicing firm that allows businesses to create event sourcing and blockchains. Kossier, the digital lifestyle app serving as the nexus to connect consumers with organizations and digital services around the world. I want you to watch and see how my own people start acting when we show off everything from the market exchanges, the advertising networks, the social credit systems, and paradigms they never heard of.

Many of you, especially the Early Adopters should be focused on creating globally-scalable operations that can start locally but built to quickly grow around the world. The worst mistake and this is what Blavity AfroTech characters be doing – they design stuff and center stuff on a fake, made-up Black tech ecosystem that is not viable for competitive growth. Meaning, all someone in Chengdu, China has to do is steal that Black tech entrepreneur idea and scale it out globally very quickly. Blavity AfroTech folks are basic as hell and don’t be like those characters.

Here are the things you need to consider to establish a global growth strategy with your empire:

Local Connects. You got to have contacts on the ground. I will always be smirking hearing some goofy Black tech person trying to talk bougie about they operating around the world but have no real ground game in any region. You got to have a real ground game with affiliates, subsidiaries, and vendors. And your primarily bartering chip is your talent and skills those foreign agents will. Digital trade is a legal form of trade with trade treaty agreements between the USA and other nations, please learn to look at places you can set up contracts and do digital trade deals.

Co-Location. You are going to need servers co-located near customers around the world. It takes forever to pull data down from overseas countries so you co-locate your data and processing in strategic areas around the world. Both Amazon and Microsoft cloud services allow you to create zones for Asia, Europe, and so on. Now, this is important and part of CQRS architecture – you focus on putting read-only data stores overseas and your writes are pushed back here to the USA and pushed back out as read-only views around the world. This is how banking overseas is done for decades to update your account balances on ATM overseas.

Localization. This is the ability to translate everything into the local language, local currency, locate date/time format to markets around the world. In Arabic countries, the text has to read right-to-left instead of the American left-to-right format. Using a key/value store system will allow you to create this as well as having a dictionary data table where you lookup your user mobile phone country settings and if it says Italy, you pull in all of the key/values settings to format to Italian locale.

Market Needs. You cannot put out a one-size-fits-all strategy. You need to realize a Chinese urban market is more sophisticated than a Black urban market with technology and may have to provide more instructions. You may also need to realize Black folks in the UK do not have the same access to opportunities as African-Americans and have to work more virtual solutions than physical ones. Realize in places like South Africa or Argentina that shipping containers or modular structures are more realistic than a strip mall. These things you have to identify and tailor specifically to those markets.

One more thing and this is important – at my firm, we will be marketing Japanese people in Japan while marketing American people here in America. These are global things you should think about as you work on your initial design. Overall, your web site or mobile app, or kiosks should always have content stored in a lookup database and not coded into the web site. You determine the user settings like their country and language and you load up the correct content. Kossier is already set up in this fashion.  

Yes, it’s our time and we are ready to show and visualize what we been up to. But understand that the Black community already showed us their real side when it comes to us trying to help and create progress, but realize there are billions of more people out there in the world waiting for your vision to manifest – go and get it.