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Business Plan 101: Layout
Before we tackle the actual content of a business plan, let’s chat briefly about the layout and presentation. There is nothing more off putting than a business plan that has been created using Word Art. Please, never try to beef up a crappy document with curved words with shadows on the cover. My rule is [...]
Business Plan 101: Author
Who should write your business plan? The big question! This is going to offend some of you and actually, I am not sure that I care. I have seen enough outsourced business plans to understand that when the business owner is not the author they are never the owner of the idea. If you, the [...]
Business Plan 101
Ever since Fred wrote the article “Creating the perfect Business Plan” on Ideate back in June 2008 we have had comments galore and discussions late into the night about this vey topic. It was this very article that got me thinking about plans and business strategy to the point that I have become an enthusiastic [...]
2011 and Entrepreneurship in South Africa
Ok, I am going to stick my neck out and do some predictions for this year. South Africa is on the brink of some very exciting developments and this could push us into a great economic development phase of our country. With this and the other factors that we have been following, I have distilled [...]
Entrepreneurial lessons learnt from 2010
The year everyone was speaking about for ages has come and gone. 2010 is done and dusted, but not without some interesting lessons that some of us had to pay dearly to learn:
Bruce Wade is a survivor of the corporate and NGO world, author, speaker, business owner and entrepreneur, Bruce now runs the Entrepreneur Incubator; [...]
An Entrepreneur’s average day of work – Reading and Research
Our journey continues with Mr.E, the typical South African Entrepreneur as we investigate his reading habits. From our observations we find that Mr.E seems to have developed an interesting list of reading material. He has set times in his day that he dedicates to these and can be summarized under 3 different categories;
Online Reading: Mr.E has a [...]
An Entrepreneur’s average day of work: Social Marketing
Our journey continues with Mr.E, the typical South African Entrepreneur as we analyse the data collected from the keyboard tracking devices we installed in both his office pc and personal laptop. Our team has recreated his activities and found that he uses up to 2 hours a day on the various social media platforms. Mr. [...]
An Entrepreneur’s average day of work: Staff Management
Our journey continues with Mr.E, the typical South African Entrepreneur. Previous articles covered his daily ritual of time management and his afternoon staff gathering at 4:30 each day but we have also noticed a regular form of communication that happens in his office. The main board room is used for what is termed creative meetings. [...]
An Entrepreneur’s average day of work: Customer Relationships
Our journey continues with Mr.E, the typical South African Entrepreneur as we disclose his unique relationship with his customers. Mr.E has regular meetings that include copious amounts of coffee and some cinnamon cake item that we have not yet tried ourselves.
Mr.E has on him a small black and red note book, what seems to be [...]
The Cape Town Entrepreneurship Week is here!
The Cape Town Entrepreneurship Week is a part of the International Week of the Entrepreneur. Cape Town has put together a huge array of events, workshops, talks and open days. The week is split into two sections where the first 3 days 15 – 17 Nov will see many different smaller events taking place throughout [...]
