Tag Archives: South African Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship: From Slog To Success
The prospects of owning your own business seem so appealing when you’re cooped up in anoffice, staring an A4 screensaver of an exotic beach location and trying to ignore the mindless nattering from the cubicle next door. Just imagine, working to your own agenda, at your own time and pace, holidays on whim and adventures [...]
Top 6 Reasons Why Your Strategic Plan Won’t Work
Every entrepreneur has a vision, a dream, and a desire to start something. This is where it all begins, and you work day and night to bring it to reality. To make this happen you flesh out your vision with a strategic plan, goals and objectives, and go to work. Yet, as entrepreneurs, we inevitably [...]
SA Entrepreneurs Holding Their Own After 2010 Boost.
According to the latest South African Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research released by the GSB this week, Total Early-stage Entrepreneurial (TEA) activity in South Africa was at 9.1% in 2011, statistically not different from the level of 8.9% in 2010, but the country has slipped back below the median of entrepreneurship rates of all countries [...]
Five Tips For Entrepreneurs To Survive The Holidays
The holidays should be a time to sit back, relax, and enjoy life… But for many small business owners, holidays seem to represent nothing more than lost sales and extra stress. It is true that public and religious holidays can have a serious impact on small businesses. Low productivity and difficult staffing issues are just [...]
Seda Small Business Stars: Western Cape Provincial Winners Announced
A media company that has pioneered the concept of simultaneous syndicated programming to a network of small community radio stations, thus opening up a whole new marketing channel to advertisers, is the provincial winner for the Western Cape in the Seda Small Business Stars entrepreneur competition. More than 5,500 business ideas, start-ups and existing small [...]
How To Become An Entrepreneur
It says a lot about the enhanced status of the entrepreneur that one of the best-selling books of 2011 was the biography of the recently deceased Steve Jobs. This success was, of course, partly due to the huge popularity of iPods, iPads, iPhones and other products made by Apple, the company Jobs came to embody. [...]
Turning Your Business Into A Triumphant Success With Jannie Mouton
One of SA’s greatest success stories, Jannie Mouton built his business from scratch after getting fired at age 48. Today, the investment giant PSG is one of the Top 40 on the JSE, and the companies he is involved in have a market cap of R61 billion. Jannie Mouton heads up PSG, one of the [...]
Skills every entrepreneur needs
Entrepreneurship is a very appealing alternative to employment and one that many people dream of. However, it’s a difficult thing to pull off and many people who attempt it fall short. Here are some vital skills that you will need if you intend to follow the entrepreneur’s path. Organisational skills and time management Entrepreneurs are [...]
Exploit Yourself, Online Entrepreneur Reality Show
Exploit Yourself, a new social media-based reality show, will be hitting online screens on 01 June 2011. As the title suggests, 10 chosen entrepreneurs will push themselves – and their businesses – to the limit in a battle for the Grand Prize and title of Top Entrepreneur. The concept was created by Cape Town communications [...]
Economic Growth = Growing Entrepreneurship
If South Africa’s economy is to continue to see healthy growth, we need more people actively involved as employers, and not just employees. Creating employment is one, if not THE most important challenge for South Africa, and if we are going to tackle it effectively, a change in perspective is required on several fronts. 1.Unemployment [...]
