Tag Archives: investment
Launch Of Crowdinvest: SA’s 1st Peer-To-Peer Crowdfunding Investment Platform
Crowdinvest announced two weeks ago the launch of their innovative platform that uses online crowd sourcing as an investment platform for South African consumers.
This exciting start-up focuses on the possibilities of profit sharing, business equity, capital assets and property (removed) that can turn a small investment into an actuality – simply by investing, learning and [...]
Business Can Help To Build The Africa Of The Future, The Right Way.
A quick count of posts by Trade Invest Africa on its website during March 2012 showed some 150 major opportunities for investment in Africa. The sectors covered included just about every possibility from A to Z – from aquaculture to zinc mining.
These 150 posts are just the tip of the iceberg. The African Development Bank [...]
Africa-focused Online Publisher Launches Two New Portals In Zim And Botswana
Umuntu Media recently made the news for receiving $1m from an emerging market-focused venture fund. Now Johan Nel, CEO of Umuntu, whom Ideate covered previously, is adding two more portals in its quest to provide local content to previously underserved areas within Africa.
Having recently confirmed a $1m investment from eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund), [...]
Investment In Emerging Businesses Earns Bonus Points On Your BEE Scorecard
Return on investment is a growing and welcome focus of enterprise development in South Africa. The business sector is gradually coming to see that a holistic approach to investing in emerging enterprises will not only allow companies to score up to 15 points on their BEE scorecards, but also stimulate SME growth and bring significant [...]
Differentiate Your Business With A Free Employment Benefits Plan
Previously on Ideate, we have been discussing the importance of differentiating your business through offering an outstanding customer experience. This hinges on employing the right people so that your customers have an outstanding experience every time they do business with you.
Attracting and retaining the right people means that you need to offer a [...]
The Bonus Of Retirement Benefits For Your Team
Over the past few weeks we have been discussing how your staff and the customer service that they deliver help to make your business stand out in the crowd. Top employees look for advantages such as retirement benefits when considering their employment options.
We have used Old Mutual Unit Trusts Group Solution (OMUT Group Solution) as [...]
South Africa A Risky But Worthwhile Investment: Two UK Entrepreneurs Speak Out
Dan Bowyer is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully built two tech / IT businesses in England before casting his eye on Africa’s shores. Neal Gandhi set up and sold his first business in his early twenties, wrote a book and is now looking towards Cape Town for his next venture. These two dynamic individuals [...]
Finance Tip of the Week: Investing Lingo
Short-selling. A term you may hear thrown around a fair amount is ‘short-selling’ or ‘shorting’.
Gareth Cotten is one of the growing breed of SA entrepreneurs with that ‘world-domination’ look in his eyes. Gareth runs the coaching and consulting practice ‘Good Advice’. Gareth is also the ‘course convener’ for the University of Cape Town (Law@Work) [...]
Finance Tip of the Week: Investment
Know your investment horizon, and don’t get caught up in day-to-day swings in your investments. Whenever people read about how the market has dropped in a day, or how a particular stock of their’s has dipped slightly, their reaction is to panic and see how they can get out of that position.
Gareth Cotten is [...]
Finance Tip of the Week: Savings/Investments
Always know what costs you’re paying. With pretty much any savings or investment product, there are going to be costs involved. They could be called admin fees, management fees, monthly fees, performance fees, or just about anything.
Gareth Cotten is one of the growing breed of SA entrepreneurs with that ‘world-domination’ look in his eyes. Gareth [...]
