Archive for 'Entrepreneur Life'
The “What You Gonna Do With Your Life?” Summer Road Trip
Five-city coastal tour ‘fishing’ for SA’s next generation of entrepreneurs. While the holidays are a time for most of us to relax, there are thousands of young people across South Africa hoping to enjoy a break of a different sort: the chance to start a career.
From December 20 to January 14, a unique five-ton [...]
Sir Richard Branson’s Eight Ideas To ‘Screw Business As Usual’
Saturday night saw the South African launch of Sir Richard Branson’s new book ‘Screw Business As Usual’, in Randlords Johannesburg. I attended with fellow Ideate reporter Yolandi Janse van Rensburg and managed to chat to the great man himself. He was his usual effervescent self, clearly loving the challenges of turning traditional business models on [...]
3 Top Work From Home Tips
So, you’re a trailblazing entrepreneur who works from home, deftly selling your talents to grateful clients who are only too lucky to have you as their remote project coordinator? For many South African professionals this is the dream, working from home, being your own boss, scheduling your own hours.
And unless you’re dead-set on completing that [...]
3 Challenges Facing Small Businesses In Offsetting Their Carbon Footprint
COP17 launches this morning. If you don’t know what it is, you’ve been hiding your head in the sand. COP17 is the The 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is the 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the [...]
South African Breweries Selects 5 Black Owned Business For Grant Funding And Support
Today, the South African Breweries Limited (SAB) Foundation and Endeavor South Africa, an affiliate of the premier emerging market entrepreneurship support network, has boosted the growth aspirations of 5 black owned businesses through grant capital.
The SAB Foundation’s Grant Capital Investment was created to provide support and financial assistance to high-impact, black-owned businesses in [...]
Business Veteran Rob Clarke Shares Secrets Behind His Four Decades Of Succcess
Through a recent study conducted with regards to business success, it became clear that South Africans are highly enterprising and can find innovative ways of making a living. What has also become clear, however, is that only about 3% of entrepreneurs become employees, thus affording employment to somebody else.
Most entrepreneurs remain ‘lifestyle entrepreneurs’ creating [...]
PayPal Co-Founder Max Levchin’s Top 25 Lessons I Learned As A Young Entrepreneur
Max Levchin is the co-founder of the world’s biggest online payment system, PayPal (those of you who are FNB customers may have signed up for it) and founder of media-sharing service Slide, recently sold to Google for close to $200m. Levchin is a highly respected computer scientist, but is most widely known as a brilliant [...]
How To Succeed As An Entrepreneur: Get Other People’s Money And Advice
Entrepreneurs can’t do it all alone: research has verified that enlisting equity investors and talented advisors helps entrepreneurs overcome early risks to their business.
This has been a topic discussed in detail in amongst delegates attending the Endeavor Summit during Global Entrepreneur Week in South Africa. Jeff Bussgang is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, [...]
New Branson Centre CEO: ‘Business Can Be A Force For Good’
The recently appointed CEO of the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship and Virgin Unite Africa, Tracey Webster, today announced plans to continue building on the vision of the Centre’s founder, Sir Richard Branson, by encouraging its entrepreneurs to put people and planet at the core of their businesses.
This comes during Global Entrepreneurship Week (14 – 20 [...]
Top Entrepreneurs Gather In Johannesburg This Week For GEW
“Entrepreneurship is the only way for South Africa to create jobs and transform its economy” says Malik Fal, MD of Endeavor SA.
A few years ago a distinguished American institution called the Kauffman Foundation launched “Global Entrepreneurship Week,” an initiative aimed at establishing Entrepreneurship as the leading force for sustainable economic development in emerging countries.
In [...]
