Startup Picnic Venture Studio

Author: Tiisetso Maloma

Entrepreneur and founder of STARTUP PICNIC. Author of The Anxious Entrepreneur, Forget The business Plan Use This Short Model and Township Biz Fastrack.

41 100 Millionaires and Counting: South Africa Has More Millionaires Than Anywhere in Africa — and Could Lead the Family Office Revolution in Venture Capital and Venture Studios

Family offices — private wealth structures that manage investments, estate planning, and the broader financial affairs of ultra-high-net-worth families — already control more capital globally than the venture capital industry. With Africa’s largest concentration of private wealth, South Africa is uniquely positioned to become the continent’s hub for long-term innovation capital.

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Venture Investing: Why Material Physics, Not Business Statistics, Points to the Future of Disruptive Innovation

Venture investing begins with understanding what’s truly possible. Predicting the future with data and statistics is a bit like forecasting the weather — it works in the short term but collapses over the long run. You might predict rain this afternoon or that people will work on Tuesday if it’s Monday. A year from now?…

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Call for Contributors: Book on the Future of Venture Funding in Emerging Markets

Startup Picnic Venture Studio, in partnership with our associated company Bula Buka Publishers, which I founded over 10 years ago, we are launching a collaborative project to compile a book tentatively titled “Future of Venture Funding in Emerging Markets.” This is a call for contributors to be part of this important publication, which is planned…

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The Top 3 Best Places to Network in South Africa

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The Reasons Why People Do Not Want You To Follow Your Dreams

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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Four 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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