REMEMBER THE STORY about the ships that arrived in the new world, but the locals could not see them because ships were a phenomenon totally unknown to their minds? Sometimes we just can’t accept unbelievable news. People are known to have denied having been given a cancer diagnosis because their minds couldn’t accept it. Today, many …
One of the first words that toddlers hear is: “NO!” As we grow, so we learn to recognize what our parents want us to do and not do. We learn our place in the family and in society by absorbing our family’s attitudes, values and behaviours, by osmosis. Our grandparents introduce us to our heritage …
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 …
The recent City of Johannesburg Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Summits and Symposium, informed by Tamiko Sher’s Entrepreneurship Research Study: Voices of Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg revealed some surprising insights into what Joburg’s entrepreneurs need. More than three-quarters of the people interviewed for the study were entrepreneurs and the balance, organisations that support small businesses. In addition, over 1,000 …
[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? …
“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. Small business owners were invited to FundEx to …
