Many of the most valuable brands are either dot-com or technology companies. That says a lot about where we are today. Our once-disconnected global community is increasingly finding and establishing borderless communications and business channels. Some of the readers and businesses I advise have reached out to me and asked something along these lines: "I understand that you've...
It is widely known that startups and scale-ups create the vast majority of jobs in the formal economy, providing, on average, 66% of jobs worldwide and the greatest share of jobs in low-income countries like South Africa. Giving thanks to early stage business’ outstanding capacity to increase productivity through innovation, these SME enterprises are...
The competition promotes entrepreneurial initiatives managed by women and/or men, tackling the challenges of women’s inclusion and gender inequalities – whether social, economic, cultural or political – and leveraging digital innovation for their development. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Any innovative Entrepreneurial Initiative demonstrating the existence of a legal form and having a proven activity on the African continent ...
It is always exciting when a customer gives you work, but it can also be stressful as you know that you can only invoice them once the work is completed and you’ll need enough money in the meantime to enable you to buy the supplies and pay the resources needed to complete the work. Fortunately...
Ventureburn, in partnership with Telkom Futuremakers and analytics company Qurio, is proud to announce the launch of the 2018 Ventureburn Tech Startup Survey. Following the success of both its 2015 and 2017 tech startup surveys, Ventureburn will again uncover the nuts and bolts of the SA tech startup sector, seeking to discover among other things: What are the major challenges...
The Global Change Award is one of the world’s leading challenges for early-stage innovation, and the largest initiative of its kind in the fashion industry. It was initiated to accelerate the shift from a linear to a circular fashion industry, to protect the planet and our living conditions. The non-profit H&M Foundation initiated the Global...
The US based Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and CPA.com have opened a call for candidates for their joint startup accelerator programme which aims to foster innovation in accounting and finance. Applications for the accelerator — which launched last year and focuses on early-stage startups in tech and financial information as well as professional competency innovation — will close on 30 November. The six-month...
A Flowchart is a diagram full of shapes and symbols that collectively represent a process. Using a flowchart you can easily explain a complicated process via 2D or 3D graphical images of the data and represent the connection between any content and information. If your task includes statistics, a flowchart can explain it even better. See...
Customer management for small businesses. You can have the best product, price or delivery channels, but if customers are not satisfied or feel that they have been treated unfairly, it can mean the end of a brilliant business. Most of the entrepreneurs I engage with customer satisfaction, is one of the least focus areas in...
Ever wished you had one place to save all the useful advice and ideas you are bombarded with every day? Frustrated with a desk piled high with receipts? See below a list of document management tools/apps you can use: Evernote - Evernote is the app that keeps your notes organised. Memos are synced so they're accessible...
