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We burn but I think I see hope. Youth employment’s future is entrepreneurship Read More »
"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
The black middle entrepreneurial class, SONA and the deep blue (AN) Sea Read More »
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
Luminance issue won’t blow out Read More »
This is just another deal done by the NEF – one of the many businesses that they have funded over the years. Yet we feel that we've been ripped off. We feel as though the NEF has been making a mockery of its own mandate by empowering another prominent black business person. I went past
What is it about the Khanyi deal that makes us feel so uncomfortable? Read More »
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
Many years ago when I was at university I used to wonder why the cleverest people in my class at school could study anything other than medicine. To my mind if you were that clever then you might as well do a course that required cleverness – like medicine. This same sentiment occurs within
An overdue comment on entrepreneurship Read More »
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
The Founder Factor – Fred Wilson’s comments on Google and China Read More »
