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ODETTE FALING
Travelcheck CEO, Odette Faling unpacks the trends that underpin Africa's bold digital future and are creating opportunities for entrepreneurs... read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Business strategist Justin Cohen has coached global entrepreneurs, small businesses and major corporates on how to win some of the toughest multimillion-dollar pitches. To kick off our #EntrepreneurMonth coverage, he shares that business pitching in SA is no different than it is anywhere else... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Karri Payments is an app that allows parents to make safe, quick and convenient payments to their childs' school, solving the problem of teachers acting as debt collectors... Read
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GREG PUTNAM
WeWork went from unicorn darling with a nearly US$50 billion valuation to a cautionary tale for gullible investors worth just $8 billion in a matter of months... Read
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#StartupStory
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Shmuggleit is a university-specific classified marketplace, created by Joseph Akinsola, a first-year Actuarial Science student at the University of the Free State... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Garon Campbell, award-winning director, filmmaker and entrepreneurial founder at Breadbin Productions, shares how watching E.T. 50 times from the age of 6 sparked his love of the film medium, as well as the power of the storytelling value-add, and how he learned to stop stressing, even when facing the most stressful filming conditions... Read
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Awards
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The regional finalists in the second edition of the Southern Africa Startup Awards (SASAWARDS) have been selected... Read
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Kaspersky has chosen four tech-based startups in the final tour of its call for startups to submit pioneering technological proposals, under the Kaspersky Open Innovation Program... Read
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Business Plans
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More South Africans are working two jobs in order to earn multiple incomes... Read
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Community
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In South Africa, France, the United Kingdom, Japan and Hong Kong, 80% of female entrepreneurs believe that in order to succeed, they need the support of a network of female entrepreneurs... Read
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SAB KickStart, the Urban Agriculture programme has announced nine finalists who will receive training and investment to grow their farming businesses... Read
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Funding
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THEMBINKOSI MADUNA
Endorsed by world leaders as an ideal investment destination, the Coega Special Economic Zone (SEZ) prioritises growth in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)... Read
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The Vumela Fund, managed by Edge Growth Ventures, has announced that it will be forwarding a R25 million capital line to ProfitShare Partners (PSP). This deal links strongly to the Vumela mandate of supporting high growth SMEs in the banking supply chain with good economic and impact returns. Read
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ISSUED BY EDGE GROWTH
The Vumela Fund, managed by Edge Growth Ventures, has announced that it will be forwarding a R25m capital line to ProfitShare Partners (PSP)... Read
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HR
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Industry 4.0 is changing the way we do business, particularly the traditional concept of workspace. Reputation Matters, a proudly African research agency, has been successfully working from a virtual office space since 2008 and shares five tips for acing it... Read
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Companies verified after 1 December 2019 will be audited based on the newly implemented, amended B-BBEE Codes. With less than one month left to realign compliance strategies, companies are strongly advised to factor these amendments into their plans from 1 December. Read
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Partnerships
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A major talking point at the recent Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 (SEWF) was the critical role social enterprises play in addressing many of the world's socio-economic challenges... Read
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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
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LEIGH ANDREWS, ISSUED BY SAICA
Annie McWalter, CEO of SAICA enterprise development, recently shared a TEX Talk-style presentation on the macro-environment of entrepreneurship in South Africa, addressing our performance by positing potential solutions... Read
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GEOFFREY WHITE
Warehouses tend to be one of the most ignored elements of infrastructure and logistics, but are a fundamental part of the supply chain... Read
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JEFF PIPE
By now, we have all heard about the local communities stopping projects across the country because the local SMME is not being given opportunities... Read
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Starting Up
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ISSUED BY SAICA
In 2018, owner Kholofelo Nengwenda entered a competition, and the prize for second place was securing a seat in the SAICA Enterprise Development programme, which she was thrilled with... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Truth Coffee founder David Donde on how to regain critical competitive advantage in a crowded marketplace... Read
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CHRISTIAN HARBECK
Entrepreneurs share very similar characteristics; they are determined, confident, self-driven and many demonstrate a strong appetite for risk... Read
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According to statistics, women only make up 18.8% of small and medium enterprise (SME) owners in South Africa... Read
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"How I Built This" dives into the stories behind growing SME's and the movements they built... Read
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LOUISE MARSLAND
Women need to access the new economic Pan-Africanism on the continent, said Dr Vera Songwe, UN ECA head... Read
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LOUISE MARSLAND
A resolution taken at the annual Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum conference, calls on the economic empowerment of women to be linked to the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)... Read
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With the i5 Innovation Hub, Africa University seeks to develop and protect African intellectual property... Read
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Nestlé and its regional partners have joined forces to launch the Regional Alliance for Youth in sub-Saharan Africa to promote employability for young people... Read
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COLLEEN MANSOUR
It was predicted that by 2019, there would be 40 million independent workers in the US... Read
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MOHAMMED AMIN
Those who worry that automation is going to upend our lives are forgetting that we already live in a largely automated world... Read
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The eighth edition of the MTN Business App of the Year Awards concluded with the much-anticipated announcement of the overall and category winners... Read
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The winners of the 2019 South African Loyalty Awards were announced in Cape Town this week... Read
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There's been much in the media about the fourth industrial revolution and how it has the potential to change South Africa's economy for the better... Read
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