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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 [...]
SA Start Up Snapplify Transforms Publishing Content Into Mobile Apps
A South African application development company has launched their product and signed their first deal at Frankfurt Book Fair.
The recent launch of mobile app developer Snapplify gives the publishing market a full turnkey solution for transforming their content into mobile apps within minutes, for global distribution via the Apple App Store. It is the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1 Min. With A Superhero: Cheryl Nesbitt, Founder Of Africa’s Biggest Cooking School
For those of you who don’t know who Cheryl Nesbitt is, this interview should make illuminating reading. I have fond memories of sitting in Cheryl’s Cape Town living room back in the first days of Capsicum Cooking School, brainstorming her marketing strategy. Even back then it was apparent that Cheryl’s drive, determination and attention to [...]
How To Get Unstuck: A Guide For Entrepreneurs
This time of year many creatives are tired, worn out and often suffering from just stuckness. It has been a long year to ride, often with little or no break and we long for the leave that we know we will not take but desperately need.
We entrepreneurs expect of ourselves to just push through [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
