Global University Business Club Limited
“Eating your cake and having it as well!”
https://opencorporates.com/companies/ug/80020002872346
- A platform for students' technological innovations; and
- A partnership for university-community/industry linkages for tertiary education graduates' self-employment promotion
Greetings!
Introducing you to Global University Business Club Limited
(GUBCCo).
“Gainful self-employment among tertiary education graduates
in Uganda” A journal article attendant to this study can be seen here:
https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1b11317bee - published
by Journal of Public Sector Development and Governance (AJPSDG) Vol.2_Issue.2,
2019 – a reputable African journal of the Network of Management Institutes of
African countries.; and
“Learning by doing for gainful self-employment among
students and graduates in Uganda through entrepreneurship clubs and societies:
an action research of AWU and its surrounding communities.” This study’s “Conceptualization” was presented at
the 6th International Conference on Social Sciences 2019 (ICOSS2019), whose
theme was: “Empowered Humanity: Making Knowledge, Innovation and Progress
Accessible to All,” held on 19th –20th of September in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia”. The paper’s
Abstract and Presentation are retained at the Conference website:
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/16w3k68rEeO3EvH0U9mNcupy_d-29ccKH/view
Global University Business Club Limited is newly founded
public limited company, incorporated on 22/01/2021 – check it here:
=> https://opencorporates.com/companies/ug/80020002872346
=>
http://knowledgedriveneconomy.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_9.html
In Uganda/Africa/LDDs, the universities' focus has been, and
still is on the traditional Bloomy taxonomy cognitive domain - that is training
the mind. With Uganda's/Africa's/LDCs' economy being hugely dominated by
informal sector, the universities focus on "cognitive" domain has
been and still is a recipe for the disheartening graduates' unemployment.
Global University Business Club Limited (GUBCCo) was founded
for universities to focus also on Reverse Bloomy Learning Framework (RBLF)'s
"affective" and "psychomotor" domains – the later
emphasizing hands-on, which is the student's learning by doing, which is
GUBCCo's value proportion. The affective domain lays emphasis on training the
heart, that is, "passion" and "compassion".
GUBCCo's slogan: "“Eating your cake and having it as
well!”
Inviting you and the reasons someone to invest in GUBCCo
=> GUBCCo makes and it is the best avenue for
universities to be entrepreneurial
=> Huge cliental
base - GUBCCo envisages having presence in hordes of universities globally,
starting with Uganda – as per old wisdom that charity begins at home.
=> GUBCCo has
given the Company's largest pie to universities—who are a cache of knowledge.
Business Plan
2021-2023
Treeshade, Kabwo he Hill, Kabwohe,
Sheema, Uganda
Tel:
(+256)782-188904; Email: info@gubcco.com / gubbco@yahoo.com;
Website: www.gubcco.com
PROBLEM
GUBCCo attends to & SOLUTION
About Global University Business Club Limited (GUBCCo, the
Club, the Company)
GUBCCo is a lately founded public limited Company,
incorporated on 22/01/2021. The Company's founding was informed by two
researches out of Julius Babyetsiza’s PhD study: “Gainful self-employment among
tertiary education graduates in Uganda," journal publication can be seen
here: https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1b11317bee. The study’s structure deployed Stephen Kemmis’
cyclical model of: plan, act, observe, and reflect. This informed a new study:
“Learning by doing for gainful self-employment among students and graduates in
Uganda in entrepreneurship clubs and societies,” which can be seen here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16w3k68rEeO3EvH0U9mNcupy_d-29ccKH/view
GUBCCo addresses Uganda's/LDC's grand problem,
graduates' unemployment, raging at 87% according to 2020 National Planning
Authority report—but which is also a global challenge, especially LDC's in the
light of youth unemployment.
The Solution is replication into community and commercialization of
university-based students’ projects. This makes universities entrepreneurial by
directly intervening in improving societal well-being—enhancing
students’/graduates’ transition to the labour market: self-employment,
entrepreneurship, and hired employment readiness.
BUSINESS PROCESS
Features & Functionalities
GUBCCo envisages having presence in hordes of universities in
Uganda and globally. It enters inter cooperative MOU with universities to run "GUBCCo
and Xxxxxxxxxxxx University Clubs," where GUBCCo engages students to come
up with business initiatives. They upload pitches and business plans of the
business initiatives to GUBCCo's Website, www.gubcco.com, where GUBCCo mentors
them entrepreneurially, markets their business initiatives to solicit funding
as well as being becoming legible for financing from GUBCCo SACCO Scheme - mobilizing
of savings, firstly, from university communities [students and staff] as the
financing portal for the university-based students’ business initiatives.
GUBCCo's Website is made in such way that entrepreneurs have
shelves in which they can display maximum five initiatives of other
entrepreneurs. The more one’s initiative appears on other entrepreneurs'
shelves, the more it ranks high. At the end of every month, GUBCCo picks the
topmost initiatives and funds them.
Pricing
GUBCCo charges modest prices, thanks to the Club's presence
in hordes of universities – subscription of 34UDS/six months or 60USD/year.
Profitability
|
Activity/Product/Service |
Description |
Qty/year |
2021 |
|
Revenue |
|||
|
Subscriptions |
Website A/C Holders |
7000 |
1,440,000,000
|
|
Loan Interests |
7000 |
184,090,652 |
|
|
Loan
secured by 15% shares |
7000 |
2,247,018,750
|
|
|
Food
solar dryers |
Households |
500 |
365,625,000 |
|
Revenue
sub-total |
4,236,734,402
|
||
|
Expenses |
|||
|
Website
hosting |
2,000,000 |
||
|
Maintenance |
30,000,000 |
||
|
Internet |
12,000,000 |
||
|
Electricity |
12,000,000 |
||
|
Labour |
6,000,000 |
||
|
Expenses
|
1,690,140,000
|
||
|
Expense
sub-total |
1,762,140,000 |
||
|
Profit |
|
|
2,474,594,402
|
MARKET
OPPORTUNITY
Target Audience/Customers
GUBCCo's target audience are university communities: students,
staff - academic, universities themselves, surrounding communities/the society –
who, in short-term, are in hundred thousand. GUBCCo stresses affective and
psychomotor domains, i.e., training the hands, which is the learning by doing
in which all the above audiences are active.
Marketing & Sales- Your Marketing Plan
GUBCCo envisages having presence in as many universities as
possible in Uganda and globally through entering into a mutual cooperative
relationship with universities by signing MOU. The Company's founding directors
are socio-economic university lecturers who are focused to GUBCCo's learning by
doing drive.
GUBCCo's digital facility, GUBCCos clubs in universities and
engagements with students, drawing village source maps of the communities by
students and coming up with business initiatives that involve university
communities, are GUBCCo's various
marketing and sales channels and strategies that used to reach the Company’s
customers and distribute its products and services to its clients.
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,
& Threats)
Strength and opportunities: business process is overly digital, leveraging on the
current trends of COVID-19 and its
aftermath's focus of online; market is overwhelmingly huge; GUBCCo's key
stakeholders are universities, who are knowledge powerhouses; making
universities entrepreneurial; and outsourcing
- through signing MOU with universities to use their facilities such as
Business Parks.
Weakness and threats:
They are minimal, if any.
GUBCCo's
NEEDS
Resource Requirements
GUBCCo's needs are largely Capital Investment Expenditure –
these are presented in the table below.
|
Item |
Details |
Cost in UDS |
|
The
Digital Facility |
Website
of the rigour of https://harpercollins.co.uk |
5,000 |
|
Website
Hosting |
Website
hosting |
300 |
|
GUBCCo
SACCO Scheme |
Capitalisation |
50,000 |
|
Building
food solar dryer workshop |
|
1,420 |
|
Total |
256,720
|
Building a Team
|
Name |
Role |
Key skills & experiences |
|
Ms Everlyn Alupo |
Executive Director |
Social Economist |
|
Mr. Julius Babyetsiza (PhD Candidate) – PhD student; and
Lecturer, |
Founding Director |
The business idea initiator - informed by his PhD
research. |
|
Prof. Firimooni Banugire – a university Lecturer |
Founding Director |
Social Economist |
|
Mr. Derrick Komwangi – a university Lecturer |
Founding Director |
Social Economist |
GUBCCo PLANS
Business Forecasting and Planning
GUBCCo finished testing markets with studies
indicated section "The Problem GUBCCo Addresses & Solution". GUBCCo
is certain of the business model delivering, drawing from Mr Babyetsiza's
experience with Harpercollins while readying to publish "Destined To
Triumph" (2011): https://www.amazon.com/Destined-Triumph-Mr-Julius-Babyetsiza/dp/1461035791 - at Harpercollins' website, each author
has a shelf in which one can display maximum five books of other authors. The
more one’s book appears on other authors' shelves, the more it ranks high.
At the end of each month, Harpercollins picks top-ranking five books and
finances their publication. GUBCCo has a kindred business process, as shared in
the BUSINESS PROCESS Section.
The next steps for GUBCCo
As public limited Company, GUBCCo is readying a Prospectus
for submitting to Capital Market Authority to offer the public 1,000,000
shares, each UGX20,000 , equivalent to 5.5 USD – thus, looking forward to
raising UGX20,000, 000,000, equivalent to 5,5million USD from the sale of
shares.
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