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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Global Entrepreneurship Week Is Two Weeks Away: What Is It And Why Should You Care?
GEW is a global initiative whereby for one week, millions of people and corporate companies around the world join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people, to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things. Countries across six continents and over 120 countries come together to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to [...]
10 Soundbites from SA’s Top Entrepreneurs
On Wednesday this week, Ideate attended the Endeavor annual “State Of Entrepreneurship” Summit. This year it was held at Cape Town’s Mt Nelson Hotel, with a panel of stellar entrepreneurial giants including Discovery founder Adrian Gore, OUTsurance founder Willem Roos, FNB founder Paul Harris and Gucci Global CEO, Robert Polet. The Summit aims to create [...]
