Category: magazine

Do People Treat Me Differently Since I Talk Openly About Depression?

As Amy and I get ready to return to Boulder today and physically re-enter the human race, I woke up this morning thinking about how I’m feeling emotionally. We’ve had an excellent three weeks up at our house in Homer, Alaska, far away from the people we know. Our only friends up here are our…

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Raising Funding Almost Destroyed My Startup

In early 2014 (about 15 months into my business) I had the opportunity to raise a small round of seed funding for my subscription sock company, NicHarry.com. The figure was about $25 000 and I was raising it from a single angel investor. The angel and I had an aligned vision, we spent months discussing…

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The Real Data Bae | The Cheapest Prepaid Mobile Internet Bundles Across South African Networks

South African mobile data internet providers have complex and tricky packages, thus making it difficult to determine which is the cheapest. So here at Startup Picnic Magazine, we tried to break it down, tricky as it is (:-p), to help you select the cheapest. We know some folks who have SIM cards with all the…

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Open letter to minister of Small Business Development: The other things frustrating entrepreneurship growth in South Africa

Good day minister Zulu. First congratulations on your appointment on the new department. This article has been in the writing even before it became known that the Department of Small Business Development would be. I’ve been chasing perfection with it, but I guess like entrepreneurship is about operating in ever ideal-less situations – it will…

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A Short Guide To Knowing An Entrepreneur

Over the past decade I’ve had countless conversations about being an entrepreneur, what the definition of an entrepreneur is and why the hell people like us keep doing what we do in the face of insane odds and statistically certain failure. Below is a list of 15 things that I’d like you to know about…

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Schizopreneur – The Brutal Emotional Battery of Being an Entrepreneur

Have you ever had one of those days where you wake up and everything feels great? Your first meeting goes brilliantly. Your coffee tastes as good as it smells and your eggs actually arrive as you ordered them (medium and not rock hard). And then something happens that sends you into the most foul of…

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