Archive for 'Entrepreneurial Ideas'
How To Come Up With Your New Business Idea: Four Vital Tips
Employment opportunities are few and far between these days, and those that are available rarely tick all the boxes. In response, South Africans of all shapes and colours are starting their own businesses – by all accounts, 97% of all local businesses are self-started small, medium and micro enterprises.
While running your own business certainly [...]
New Restaurant Booking Site Launched In Cape Town
The launch of ‘Come Dine’, an online restaurant booking website, was announced in Cape Town this week. The site aims to give Capetonians access to +450 restaurants all at a click of a button. The website gives visitors the chance to browse all options available to them, as well as the ability to book a [...]
Biomimicry: Your Next Big Business Idea Will Be Inspired By Nature
Business ideas over the past few years have all been about biotechnology and digital; but the next big thing is biomimicry. Bio-what? we hear you ask. Biomimicry is science, engineering, and design inspired by the natural world.
Basically, industry around the globe is looking at the environment around them for ways to solve design and [...]
The 5 C’s Of Entrepreneurship: Part 5 “Confidence”
Fear of failure, fear of friends and fear of success are common in our excuses why we don’t perform. We duck and dive and delay the inevitable day when we have to step out into the spotlight and announce to the world that we are either a success – or just an average person who [...]
The 5 C’s Of Entrepreneurship: Part 4 “Cooperation”
Imagine that you run an illegal business and drive an unroadworthy car and employ illegal staff. Now imagine how much energy you need to consume each day to make sure you are not caught or found out. Believe it or not, this sorry state of affairs is the status quo of many small business owners [...]
The 5 C’s Of Entrepreneurship: Part 3 “Collaboration”
It was not that long ago when I still believed, like so many men that if things had to be done right, it was up to me and me alone to get it done. No one else could possibly know what I needed done and it was too much hassle to try explaining it to [...]
The 5 C’s Of Entrepreneurship: Part 2 “Convergence”
Not being prepared for an opportunity as a business owner is one of the cardinal sins of entrepreneurship. Yet every time I go to a networking meeting or conference I find people who have not got business cards, flyers or even their contact detail on them.
When asked to introduce themselves they basically ummm and [...]
The 5 C’s Of Entrepreneurship: Part 1 “Convenience”
Frustration amongst the general population is a way of life. It’s the default reaction to most phone calls queues or dealings with large organizations. For the small business owner it’s the largest blockage of doing business, but can also be the inspiration for your biggest success.
Scenes of headbutting desks and slamming phones are just a [...]
UCT Launches New Social Innovation Scholarship For African Entrepreneurs
UCT has announced a newly established scholarship for the MBA programme, for those students pursuing social or green ventures. ”The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship” has been established at the GSB as a result of a partnership between the GSB and The Bertha Foundation.
The centre will drive research in, and promote the practice of [...]
Google Bus Travels Through Egypt Looking For The African Facebook
The New York Times reported yesterday that a bus branded with the Google logo will be traveling across 10 governorates in Egypt starting this week, including stops at universities in Cairo and Alexandria, scouting for the next generation of technology entrepreneurs with homegrown ideas on the scale of Facebook or LinkedIn.
South African tech-entrepreneurs will be [...]
