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The Top 3 Best Places to Network in South Africa
Tiisetso MalomaEntrepreneur and founder of STARTUP PICNIC. Author of The Anxious Entrepreneur, Forget The business Plan Use This Short Model and Township Biz Fastrack. www.tiisetsomaloma.com
Read MoreFour Steps to Avoid being Ditched by your Regular Clients
As a self-employed person your biggest enemy is COMPLACENCY. It’s a bit like working in IT: things change really fast and if you don’t remain flexible and alert, things will change around you and leave you behind. Have a quick think about your business now. Do you recognise any of these characteristics? Most of your…
Read MoreThe 5 BIG Myths of Self-Employment
There are plenty of things that people who DO NOT work for themselves believe about the self-employed life. Way too many for one piece. So instead, I have chosen to focus on the ones I encounter the most, which I find the most annoying. 1) You work less Entrepreneur: hard at work Somehow just about…
Read MoreMentoring 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…
Read MoreEntrepreneurial Depression: I Felt Like I Was Spiralling Deep Into a Dark Hole
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 Puseletso ModimogaleEntrepreneur, founder of W.E.Y and business mentor…
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…
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