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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
The global food and beverage business is brimming with innovation. Competition is stiff between FMCG giants and startups racing to get their latest product onto retail shelves and into the hands of consumers... read
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ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Bizcommunity is excited to announce the relaunch of our Biz Product and Rate Card, featuring all-new product infographics, descriptors and more... Read
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Entrepreneurship
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BREND BADENHORST, ISSUED BY ENTREPRENEURSHIP SCHOOL
Whether you're looking to start or grow your existing business, this article is for you! There's an entrepreneur in you ready to be discovered, and now is the time for you to stop, think and move in the direction of your dreams... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Dubbed the 'Steve Jobs of South Africa' by the Sunday Times in 2017, as well as being listed in Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans in 2016, Riaz Moola has a spectrum of accomplishments that speaks for itself... Read
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Community
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Aspiring entrepreneurs from the University of Cape Town's Genesis Project were tasked with establishing their own business, as part of their Honours-level Programme in Management in Entrepreneurship (PDE) course... Read
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The modern workforce is tired and worn out. Advancements made in technology have resulted in the ability to always be online, always check mail, and to always be available for meetings... Read
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Funding
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Egyptian B2B e-commerce marketplace MaxAB has secured seed funding of $6.2 million, one of the largest ever seed rounds raised by a MENA startup... Read
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Kenya's iHub is acquired by Nigeria's CcHUB - the first time on the continent that a tech hub has acquired another... Read
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Marketing & Media
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ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
Dentsu Aegis Network South Africa has today announced the launch of Female Foundry, an initiative to support local female entrepreneurs... Read
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ISSUED BY EXPAND A SIGN
Despite being an industrial hub teeming with an array of industry experts, Durban is ever so slightly off the map in terms of marketing events and networking sessions. This was the motivating factor for Kirsty Fonzari, the marketing head of Expand-A-Sign, to form BrandCult... Read
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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
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LIEZL REES, ISSUED BY JOHANNESBURG BUSINESS SCHOOL
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa can help resolve some of the continent's most pressing challenges by providing much-needed jobs, products and services. Read
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JESSICA CILLIERS, ISSUED BY SAICA
The Hope Factory and SAICA Enterprise Development have again partnered with Transnet Pipelines SOC to provide SMME development support for small black businesses owned and run by people with disabilities... Read
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ISSUED BY JOHANNESBURG BUSINESS SCHOOL
The University of Johannesburg's new MBA will be helping South Africans build sustainable businesses that create jobs... Read
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Starting Up
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NOKWAZI MZOBE
When we consider that everything under the sun is affected by the different seasons we realise how integral change is to life... Read
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LEE NAIK
If there's anything that my time as a digital transformation leader has taught me, it's that everyone is a lot iffier about innovation than they let on... Read
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African economies come first and third in the Standard Chartered Trade20 Index, which identifies the markets with the greatest potential for future trade growth... Read
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Young Africans will "produce the magic" says AU chief, as the UN sounds warning on Sustainable Development Goals... Read
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Release of a unique publication on SDG 17 that promotes partnerships to transform Africa and the world... Read
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African investment has traditionally been dominated by its big economies but the long-awaited emergence of intercontinental trade blocs is shifting the balance of power... Read
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Facebook Accelerator London opens to African companies for the first time... Read
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Your child is by far the most precious cargo your vehicle will ever have to carry... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The opening keynote of the final day of the Gartner Symposium 2019 kicked off with a conversation with Nicky Newton-King, retiring from her role as CEO of the JSE on 30 September. She spoke of the role of tech in business and society and the aspects of leadership and transformation that have been part of her 23-year journey with the JSE... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
While Artificial Intelligence or AI continues to make tech headlines for innovative new products and their impact in the workplace, as with most emerging fields, AI has also encountered several noteworthy growing pains. The recent Gartner Symposium uncovered a number of the top AI blunders of recent times, and what CIOs can learn from these failures... Read
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Businesses in Africa can't ignore WhatsApp as a potential connection point to customers to revolutionise their user experience... Read
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