Tag Archives: start up
Memoirs Of A Garage Entrepreneur
I have recently made the transition from big corporate to my small empire (not there yet, but the thinking is). The move was an easy decision because I had built up a certain level of immunity. This immunity came in the form of a good reputation, one annuity client, key staff, and a good tax [...]
5 Business Ventures Requiring Little Start Up
Starting a business often requires huge start-up costs. This makes it next to impossible for young or new entrepreneurs to crack into the business world. If you want to make money with minimal start-up costs, then these five business ventures will give you some ideas to get your business gears turning. These ideas don’t require any special education, skills or a [...]
1 Min. With A Superhero: Andy Hadfield, Founder Of Real Time Wine
Ideate is super excited to be interviewing the founder of a brand new South African start-up: Andy Hadfield of Real Time Wine. Andy’s an experienced campaigner, and has been a fixture in the local social media and marketing scene for the past decade. After a stint as consultant to big corporates, Real Time Wine is [...]
Why Your Start Up Won’t Work (It’s Emotional) And What To Do About It
If you are an entrepreneur, you know it’s tough. You understand how the emotional and mental see-saw you ride on every day can be so very dramatic. It is easy to say that it takes discipline and focus to get through these periods of highs and lows. Often all you have to pull you through [...]
PayU Opens Up New Markets For South African Online Businesses
South African online payment service provider, PayU, today announced a partnership that enables online businesses to accept Ukash as an additional online payment method. “Customers who do not have credit cards want to enjoy the cost saving and convenience of shopping online. Our partnership with Ukash enables online businesses to service cash customers who previously [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Free Marketing methods that a start-up can use
This is one of those things people are constantly searching for. So, you have a great idea and you have everything in place to launch your new business. But how do you market it efficiently without spending too much or anything at all? Tim Cruise is the co-founder and co-owner of SMSWEB, a provider of school-to-parent communication [...]
Good ways to make start-up capital
People often ask “What are some good ways to make start-up capital?” One of the quotes I often hear is “It takes money to make money”. True, most business’s are started either by self funding or raising funding. If you’re putting in the funds yourself, that either means you already have the cash to put in, [...]
