Entrepreneurship

The black middle entrepreneurial class, SONA and the deep blue (AN) Sea

"Where are the black entrepreneurs who should be sitting around this table?", the very prominent Sandton CEO asked the room that was full of white entrepreneurial faces. The entrepreneurial faces belong to an entrepreneurial organisation. Of the many members only a handful are black. The banking CEO, as it turns out was asking a rhetorical

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Luminance issue won’t blow out

This issue is not going away. Rob has now told Parliament that funds would be prioritised to support productive sectors of the economy, namely agriculture, mining, manufacturing and value-added services such as tourism, business process services and the creative industries. Government agencies should make every effort to find local suppliers of finished, intermediate and capital

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SIMON MANTELL: Plan for small firms is just a pipe dream (a very interesting perspective on entrepreneurship)

The legacy of apartheid plays a big part in this and serves as an obstacle to successful small-business creation. In appreciating the capacity of SA to create the numbers of small businesses the government talks about, it is worth considering the following: The lack of good education with the prerequisite numeracy and literacy skills for

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The Founder Factor – Fred Wilson’s comments on Google and China

Fred wrote an interesting piece on the difference between founder management and hired management. I've long noticed that the most innovative, decisive, and risk taking companies are led by founders or at a minimum have their founders actively engaged in all key strategic decisions. There are many examples. One could point to Richard Branson, Steve

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