It is fashionable these days to glamourise entrepreneurial failure. Indeed, you’re considered a failure if you haven’t failed yet. But any small business owner who has survived the devastation of business collapse and who has dragged themselves out of the financial quagmire, knows full well how dreadful this is. To motivate yourself to get up …
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1512990689543{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1512990801965{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1512990818397{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The recent City of Johannesburg Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Summits and Symposium, informed by Tamiko Sher’s Entrepreneurship Research …
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1507979871520{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1507979922487{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Three very different entrepreneurs – Dinesh Patel of OrderIn, Vutlharhi Valoyi of Zulzi and Enrico Ferigolli of Bottles App – gave some very astute advice at the SiMODiSA Start-Up Thursday recently. What do they have in common? …
[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1506628970345{border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]“I’ve registered a company with the CIPC and a consultant helped me draw up a business plan. Can you help me with funding?” This question was asked by a wannabe business-owner at FundEx who didn’t know how much she needed or even what she needed it for.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1506629193401{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: …
[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1503930738310{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Their email opens with the standard knee-jerk response: “It sounds interesting. I must state upfront though that we are unable to provide any funding for this project…” That’s understandable. South Africa is the only country In the world currently in a recession. Our GDP growth rate was actually …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Times are tough, even for SARS it seems. Some businesses are complaining lately that it is taking longer to pay out VAT refunds. The revenue service is also chasing up businesses that have outstanding tax due dating back as far as 15 years ago. The revenue service was very relieved a couple of months back …
