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SA Blog Awards: Ideate for Best Business Blog

SA Blog Awards: Ideate for Best Business Blog

We are proud to announce that we have made it to the Top 10 Best Business Blog category for the SA Blog Awards! Thanks to everyone who’s nominated us and now the real voting starts!
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi is [...]

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Friday Giveaway: Live your dream and start a business!

Friday Giveaway: Live your dream and start a business!

UCT and GetSmarter online training company are giving away one place on the University of Cape Town (Law@Work) Start and Manage a Small Business course, which is due to start on the 27 September 2010. One lucky Ideate reader will be able to win this course worth R6, 600!

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Most Influential Women in SA 2010 Announced! Congrats Girls!

Most Influential Women in SA 2010 Announced! Congrats Girls!

Ah, love it when women get recognised for their role in society! The winners in the 2010 Most Influential Women (MIW) in Business and Government Awards have been announced at a stylish event at Gallagher Estate in Gauteng.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” [...]

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Panjo the tiger has been found but the Springleap special is still on!

Panjo the tiger has been found but the Springleap special is still on!

How bizarre is this! A tiger escapes from his owner’s bakkie and gets lost in the wild unkown of the Delmas area? Panjo the Tiger has made the headlines of newspapers for the past couple of days and Springleap has jumped in the mix and decided to help find this little bundle of fur.
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Springleap Competition: Congratulations Bruce Wade!

Springleap Competition: Congratulations Bruce Wade!

Remember that fun Springleap competition where you needed to find the Springleap cups on various blogs? Well, they have announced a winner and it happens to be our very own Ideate business guru, Bruce Wade!
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi is [...]

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Friday Giveaway: Win a short Finance Course at the University of Cape Town!

Friday Giveaway: Win a short Finance Course at the University of Cape Town!

We have a really big Friday Giveaway this week! Our super Finance coach, Gareth Cotten along with Get Smarter has organised that one of our lucky Ideate winners can attend a course on financial management in a business context for free!
The University of Cape Town Financial Management for Non-Financial People Course is a part-time online [...]

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Revolutionizing Recruitment: Sebenzi

Revolutionizing Recruitment: Sebenzi

Do you want to get exposure but you don’t want to expose yourself or your personal information to all those dodgy characters on the web? Well, we were really impressed with Sebenzi, a web-based recruitment portal that allows you to put yourself in the job market in complete anonymity.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social [...]

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What is an Intrepreneur?

What is an Intrepreneur?

Our blog is all about entrepreneurship and part of being an entrepreneur is having an entrepreneur skill. Now, an intrepreneur (also intrapreneur) is a person who possesses such skill but is working within a company or organisation.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because [...]

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1 Min. with a Superhero: CEO of Capsicum Culinary Studio, Claudia Katz

1 Min. with a Superhero: CEO of Capsicum Culinary Studio, Claudia Katz

Today we chat to Claudia Katz, CEO of Capsicum Culinary Studio, about what it takes to be a CEO and how the industry is effecting entrepreneurial growth.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi is nuts about anything on 4 wheels. Besides moonlighting [...]

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1 Min. with a Superhero: CEO and Founder of Skyrove Henk Kleynhans

1 Min. with a Superhero: CEO and Founder of Skyrove Henk Kleynhans

We chat to entrepreneur Henk Kleynhans about his company Skyrove, a prepaid wireless hotspot service that’s taking the world by storm. We at Ideate love Skyrove for all the opportunities it can offer entrepreneurs. So, we asked Henk a few questions about this innovative service and here’s what he had to say:
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