Tag Archives: Africa
Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Kick-Start Your Future With The Allan Gray Fellowship Programme
The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation is offering South Africa’s brightest young minds a head-start in life through its Allan Gray Fellowship Programme. This initiative aims to develop students, known as Allan Gray Fellows, into South Africa’s future high growth entrepreneurial leaders and includes comprehensive financial support as one its many benefits.
Applications to the Fellowship [...]
PayU Opens Up New Markets For South African Online Businesses
South African online payment service provider, PayU, today announced a partnership that enables online businesses to accept Ukash as an additional online payment method.
“Customers who do not have credit cards want to enjoy the cost saving and convenience of shopping online. Our partnership with Ukash enables online businesses to service cash customers who previously [...]
New Executive Committee For The Digital Media And Marketing Association
Members of the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) voted for their new executive committee at the AGM held on the 19th of January 2012.
The eight member executive committee (Exco) will once again be chaired by Nikki Cockcroft (Woolworths Online) who also holds the position of the Head of Bookmarks, the DMMA’s digital industry [...]
Welcome Back, Entrepreneurs: 5 Challenges To Get You Started
Well, it’s happened. Another year has rolled over, and 2012 marks the 7th year that Ideate has been championing South Africa’s entrepreneurs. We hope that this year will be a cracker for you, and that it will bring your dreams to reality. To kick things off, we want to challenge our readers to expand their [...]
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 [...]
5 Steps To A Viral Mobile Campaign – Step 2: Cater For Quantity
What is viral reach? I see viral reach as a piece of content that’s passed on from one person to the next because they see some kind of value in it or have been entertained by it and want to share it with someone whose opinion they care about. People who send on viral [...]
Africa Awards For Entrepreneurship: All The Winners
Legatum, a private international investment group and Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm, today announced that SECURICO has won the US $100,000 grand prize of the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship. Based in Harare, Zimbabwe, SECURICO provides guarding services and electronic security solutions, and is the first security company in Zimbabwe to be ISO [...]
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 [...]
5 Steps To A Viral Mobile Campaign – Step 1: Merge Left And Right Brain Thinking
I remember three years ago standing in my lounge chatting to a friend of mine who works at an advertising agency. She was telling me about how they build brands for Revlon. The fragrance analysts, or whatever you call them, come up with something that smells great and lives in a small glass bottle filed [...]
South Africa’s Biggest Online Store Publishes 2011 Festive Season Findings
Yesterday we published the DMMA’s survey on ecommerce in South Africa, which produced some surprising results – for example that many consumers still preferred to research their purchases instore before buying them online. This prompted a few of us to wonder why they didn’t just buy them in-store right then… but that’s just us. So, [...]
