Mentoring Your Kids for Entrepreneurship: Lessons from a Mother
I grew up in a small town in Lesotho called Diphiring, Berea. I was one of the privileged kids whose father worked in the mines. Every Christmas we would get lot of hampers as part of my fathers’ bonus. Having tea and bread in the morning, you were seen as rich. NotNot many kids in…
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I am on a blogging marathon promoting of my upcoming 3rd book (28 October 2015), The Anxious Entrepreneur. Pre-order it at up to 40% discount. People like to dig and analyse people’s background affairs. A homeboy was saying to me I wouldn’t be pursuing entrepreneurship had my parents not been doing ok. He meant, given otherwise, I would…
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Being an entrepreneur has never been more desirable, and I should know because I am one. At 34 I have ticked a few boxes: business contracts ending, emotionally and financially straining business and two miscarriages, Despite living what some might think is the “entrepreneurial dream” – I
Read MoreStart-Ups are just the Start
- by Ash Thekiso
Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business, a start-up company or other organization. The entrepreneur develops a business plan, acquires the human and other required resources, and is fully responsible for its success or failure. The definition above states a lot of aspects of entrepreneurship that many small company CEOs/owners do not notice. I was reading an…
Read MoreFour Ways for Entrepreneurs to Defuse Anxiety
These points are extracted from my upcoming book The Anxious Entrepreneur. It was at about 3:35 pm. I felt I was about to faint or have a panic attack. The day was not going well. Over and above, I was overly tired. It had been weeks since I had any ‘win’. Therefore I needed to…
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Property Point, a Growthpoint Properties initiative, has opened its next application window for entrepreneurs working in the property industry to join its business incubation programme.
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