Tag Archives: entrepreneurs
DA Youth Announces Winners Of Entrepreneurship Competition
Over the last three months, the Democratic Alliance (DA) Youth has run a national competition to challenge young entrepreneurs to develop business plans for small enterprises.
National Youth Director, Aimee Franklin says: “We believe that by encouraging young South Africans to take control of their futures and become job creators, that we are making a [...]
South African Breweries Selects 5 Black Owned Business For Grant Funding And Support
Today, the South African Breweries Limited (SAB) Foundation and Endeavor South Africa, an affiliate of the premier emerging market entrepreneurship support network, has boosted the growth aspirations of 5 black owned businesses through grant capital.
The SAB Foundation’s Grant Capital Investment was created to provide support and financial assistance to high-impact, black-owned businesses in [...]
Are Business Plans Like Battle Plans?
So you’ve downloaded a business plan template and you’ve sharpened your pencils and got out your calculator. If you go ahead and fill in all the boxes, will this plan be the foundation of a great business? I want to focus on what really goes into a good business plan, or a “business think” as [...]
Boom! Richard Branson Selects Eight Of South Africa’s Best And Brightest Entrepreneurs
This week, coinciding with Global Entrepreneur Week, the Branson Centre For Entrepreneurship selected eight of their brightest and finest to travel to Tech City, the world famous entrepreneur hub in the East End of London.
The eight delegates dubbed themselves the Boom!Crew, and chose the strapline ‘a force for good’ inspired by Virgin Unite’s focus [...]
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, [...]
New Branson Centre CEO: ‘Business Can Be A Force For Good’
The recently appointed CEO of the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship and Virgin Unite Africa, Tracey Webster, today announced plans to continue building on the vision of the Centre’s founder, Sir Richard Branson, by encouraging its entrepreneurs to put people and planet at the core of their businesses.
This comes during Global Entrepreneurship Week (14 – 20 [...]
Top Entrepreneurs Gather In Johannesburg This Week For GEW
“Entrepreneurship is the only way for South Africa to create jobs and transform its economy” says Malik Fal, MD of Endeavor SA.
A few years ago a distinguished American institution called the Kauffman Foundation launched “Global Entrepreneurship Week,” an initiative aimed at establishing Entrepreneurship as the leading force for sustainable economic development in emerging countries.
In [...]
UCT’s New Entrepreneur Centre Shifts From ‘Same Old Courses’
The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) launched the new Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at a gala dinner at the Cape Town International Convention Centre last night.
The launch formed part of the GSB’s three-day Business of Social and Environmental Innovation conference that brought together international award winning researchers to share their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
