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The Entrepreneur of the Year competition, sponsored by Sanlam and Business/Partners, announced this year's overall victor, as well as the category winners... read
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MIGUEL DA SILVA
Despite the important contribution small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) make to the economic growth of South Africa, the sector battles to access funding using traditional means...read
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KARL WESTVIG
Between today and 2030, the digital revolution will profoundly change how small business owners in South Africa operate, attract funding, grow their businesses and change our economic landscape...read
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Entrepreneurship
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Sandwich Baron CEO and founder Sally J'Arlette-Joy believes that women-led businesses are the key to alleviating South Africa's growing unemployment rate... Read
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A change in the way we see, and deliver, healthcare has been a burgeoning investment in startups in the sector... Read
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#StartupStory
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Zomila, a mobile platform, is tackling the massive issue of guiding students in their after school careers... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
When former SA creative Matthew Bull started the SoloUnion talent collaborative in New York, he quickly realised this was just the model SA needed, so he recruited Rob McLennan and Gillian Rightford to lead this industry game-changer. Neither an agency nor a collection of freelancers in the strictest sense of the word, here's how their 'heads without the overheads' sharing economy creative solution works... Read
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Awards
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H&M Foundation has opened entries for its annual innovation challenge, the Global Change Award. Dubbed the 'Nobel Prize of fashion', it aims to reduce fashion's impact on the planet... Read
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Community
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The South African Reserve Bank calls fintech firms to submit their innovative and sustainable solutions to challenges identified within the financial services industry... Read
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Mastercard's 'Together We Lead' event focused on challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in Africa, and the role of technology in helping drive inclusive growth... Read
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Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur is a female youth empowerment, entrepreneurship and acceleration programme aimed at young girls in high school... Read
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Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) has designed and co-developed incubator programmes with Innovator Trust to support, grow and inspire emerging tech entrepreneurs in Cape Town... Read
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Funding
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JEFF MILLER
High unemployment, pedestrian growth, bailouts of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and the slow implementation of President Cyril Ramaphosa's 'New Dawn' do not paint a very cheery picture... Read
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Starting a business is always a challenging objective, what makes it more challenging is trying to find funding... Read
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Failure to optimise cash flow is one of the key reasons that could lead startups to shut their doors... Read
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AlphaCode, Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI)'s incubation, acceleration and investment vehicle has awarded R23 million supplier development loans to three fintech startups... Read
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Marketing & Media
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ISSUED BY FIGHT CENTRE BUSINESS TRAVEL
Why would you travel for business if you can effortlessly connect with clients across the world via Skype, Slack or Zoom for free?.. Read
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Partnerships
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ISSUED BY GORDON INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS SCIENCE
Enterprise and supplier development (ESD) is one of the most sustainable ways to grow South Africa's ailing economy. But, to drive the impact potential of ESD, stakeholders need to come together to forge a path forward... Read
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Research Reports
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The Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs report revealed that in South Africa women in early-stage entrepreneurial activity dropped by 15.7% in 2018... Read
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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
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It just takes one event to knock the life out of an SME... Read
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More than 70% of small businesses struggle to survive the first two years of operation, with poor cash flow management and insufficient funding... Read
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Even though 54% of South African consumers are swayed by social media when making fashion purchasing decisions, in-store shopping continues to grow... Read
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Starting Up
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MAKSYM BABYCH
The tech giants that now inspire founders from around the world once started out as unicorn startups... Read
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CHANI MACAULEY
Marketing thought leader, John Grant once said, "Authenticity is the benchmark against which all brands are now judged", and no more valid words could be spoken... Read
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CHRISTIAN HARBECK
A tough economy does not always spell bad news for business... Read
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YORK ZUCCHI
Without clients, a business is essentially just a hobby. Too many startups, innovators, entrepreneurs and SMEs focus too much time on product and service... Read
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"How I Built This" with Flying Kite's Charles Hsuan interviews growing small-to-medium-sized business owners to find out about their journeys towards entrepreneurship success... Read
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TechBytes Season 2 is a mini-series consisting of 17 bite-sized episodes, unlocking powerful insights within the technology and business space... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
AfricArena is a conference that showcases Africa's best startups and innovators in front of an audience of local and international investors looking for world-class talent... Read
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AIMEE LAURENCE
Startup businesses are popping up everywhere and many people, both young and old, have amazing small business ideas that could potentially change the world... Read
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According to the latest survey from Fasa, 39% of franchisors have businesses in Africa, outside South African borders. This is equivalent to 1,775 stores in the SA franchise population... Read
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OurCrowd, the global venture investing platform and Israel's leading venture investor, has announced that it will host its sixth annual OurCrowd Global Investor Summit on 13 February 2020... Read
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The International Trade Centre (ITC) and Visa launched a partnership to increase the participation of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and women-led businesses in international trade... Read
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ANNETTE ZIMMERMANN
With several product announcements expected this fall, I am highlighting how the ongoing issue between Google and Huawei impacts the smartphone market on a global level... Read
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AHMAD BELTAGUI, ACHILLEAS SESIS AND NIKOLAOS STYLOS
The first conviction for 3D printing a firearm was recently reported in London, not long after 3D printed masks were used to trick face recognition. Should we be afraid? Read
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You probably depend on WhatsApp in your to day-to-day life, to keep in touch with friends and family. But are you making effective use of the popular messaging app as a business tool? Read
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