Tag Archives: business 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The 13 ‘P’s Of Growing Your Business
This post, although profound is not perfect or anything to do with Mr. Poppins Penguins. It is filled with propaganda issues pertaining to profit and procurement in your small business. So without further pause, here are the 13 P’s, in no specific order, you should be peering at when leading a business – proactively of [...]
Looking For Startup Venture Capital? 10 Things You Need To Know
During Global Entrepreneurship Week, I was fortunate to attend the Tech City UK Entrepreneurship Festival in London along with over 300 other startups and Venture Capitalists (VC’s) from around the globe. Apart from sharing insights about the kind of companies VC’s fund, they also let us in on what they look for.
Looking past the [...]
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 [...]
How South Africa Can Solve The Entrepreneur Crisis
The most successful companies of any time represent an idea whose time has come. Ford was driven by the idea that automobile transport could be accessible to the average American family. Cirque du Soleil created a new industry by combining the best of the circus with elements of the theatre; and locally, Thawte provided companies [...]
Partnership Announced Between UK Trade Organization And SA Small Business
The potential for increased trade between South Africa and the United Kingdom today received a boost today with the announcement of a partnership between the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and the Micro Enterprise Development Organisation (MEDO), a South African-based organisation specialising in micro and small enterprise development at the grassroots level.
The MEDO-UKTI partnership will [...]
