Archive for 'Entrepreneurial Ideas'
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 [...]
Brazilian Legend Ricardo Semler Challenges South Africans To ‘Find A Better Way’
Ricardo Semler, CEO of Semco, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering, gave a thoughtful, erudite and provocative talk this morning at the 2011 Discovery Invest Leadership Summit.
Semler believes we’re following ways of doing things that are no longer valid. Maverick and Seven Day Weekend author Ricardo [...]
Entrepreneurial Success Story “Pure Romance” Shows That Sex Sells To Women Too
Every girl wants a little romance in her life, but is just a little enough? Pure Romance, the world’s leading and fastest-growing woman-to-woman direct sellers of relationship and intimacy aids, is launching in South Africa in September – and life in the bedroom in this country will never be the same again.
At in-home parties conducted by [...]
3 Tips To Turn Your Guesthouse Into An Events Location
2010 came and went, leaving in its wake a range of businesses that sprang up to fill the needs the thousands of tourists brought with them. With these tourists back in their distant countries, many business owners have been left with a severely depleted market and resources they no longer have any use for.
Guesthouse [...]
Featured business: Rentabox, the green alternative to moving home
Moving is rated as one of life’s most stressful events. Ideate’s featured business today, Rentabox, was created to fill the need for a convenient, cost effective and environmentally friendly alternative to using cardboard boxes for moving and storage requirements. Cardboard boxes are not an ideal solution for moving your home or business. They add unneeded [...]
Sustainable Business: Caturra Coffee Goes Green
South Africa’s Caturra Coffee will be offering a new brand ‘African Renaissance Coffee with compostable packaging solutions. South Africa’s local coffee market, held at the forefront of ethical sourcing and sustainability, is upping the ante on “green” packaging.
Caturra Coffee will introduce the first range of compostable material under the name African Renaissance Coffee – [...]
Business Ideas Profile: Artsicle – Rent Art By The Month
This week we take a look at “Artsicle“, a hot new service from the States where you can rent art by the month to adorn your walls at home.
The idea is that you’ll like the work so much that you buy it once its struck the right cord. If it doesn’t, then no problem [...]
mLab Southern Africa Opens Application for Membership
mLab Southern Africa, the region’s new incubator for entrepreneurs and innovators with a focus on mobile technology, is pleased to announce that application for membership has opened. The head office of the mLab SA will be officially opened at The Innovation Hub in Pretoria on 15 September, but already mobile developers and entrepreneurs with a [...]
