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 Explore Data Science Academy (EDSA) and Rand Merchant Investments (RMI) fintech division, AlphaCode, have announced a 12-month data science and business skills programme for 20 aspirant South African future fintech entrepreneurs. Successful candidates will go through an intensive six-month data science-training programme, where they will learn how to design a 10X business along with the core digital skills...
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 Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is once again looking for the next cohort of Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EITs) to join our fully-sponsored 1-year MEST training program in 2019! MEST offers a graduate-level entrepreneurial training in business, communication and software development, including extensive hands-on project work, as well as mentorship from successful entrepreneurs, CEOs and other executives from...
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...
In entrepreneurship we often hear people talking about “the hustle”. Traditionally, being viewed as a “hustler” was perceived as a negative connotation – recently, however, to survive as an entrepreneur it is seen as necessary to succeed – everyday I’m hustling! “Hustling” means making sure you are in the right place at the right time;...
CookoutSunday Soweto is one of the country’s buzziest markets. Cookout Sunday is a daytime quarterly family event (four times a year) of culinary and cultural activities created to educate, initiate, and expose your and upcoming chefs and vendors the market and also expose different culinary styles to the masses by giving a new and sophisticated...
From cooking in her family home in the township of Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape, to cooking on the television screens of millions of people in 150 different countries, including most recently the US on The Cooking Channel to over 60 million in the States alone, Chef Siba Mtongana has turned her passion for food...
South Africa’s startup ecosystem is robust and growing, but our entrepreneurs and investors need to develop a truly global mindset to take advantage of a globalising world. Two recent startup studies on the country’s entrepreneurial and investment sector, released just this month, backs up the hype with research and hard figures, pointing to a booming...
