Due to increasing laws, entrepreneurs are faced with growing regulatory compliance in business. These legal requirements create obligations but also provide certain rights and protection. All businesses, small or large, are required to comply with legislation (passed by government), regulations (prescribed by regulatory bodies) or industry best practices. Compliance requirements range from registration of businesses and...
SAVCA & SiMODiSA will be hosting Venture Capital Office Hours in Johannesburg and Cape Town. This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to have dedicated one on one time with a South African Venture Capitalist to offer them guidance and insights on any business challenges that they may be experiencing. Only two entrepreneurs will be...
The Grindstone Accelerator is Knife Capital’s structured entrepreneurship development programme that assists high-growth innovation-driven companies to become sustainable and fundable. Grindstone supplies 10 companies annually with knowledge, networks and funding readiness through growth measurement, gap analysis and deep interventions designed to build a foundation for growth, transfer skills, create relevant business networks and enable these companies to...
How AI can help generate a self-sustaining growth in the AgriTech industry? VIVA Technology is looking for the best disruptive tech startups in AFRICA. They are specifically looking for AI based technologies, product or services that would: > help predict and monitor climatic impacts (using data and predictive schemes…) and/or assets >> integrate with existing systems and infrastructures, including in...
Apply to get a chance to work on a collaboration project with existing Merck’s innovation projects. Are you an early stage start-up based in Southern Africa? Are you working at the cutting edge of innovation and would like to run a collaboration project with Merck to solve real-life problems? Is your startup innovation related to...
SAP Next-Gen and Startupbootcamp (SBC) AfriTech have partnered to launch the Epic SDG Water Challenge, an initiative which seeks to tap startup innovation to accelerate solutions around clean water and sanitation. Entries for the challenge close on 12 September. From next month to January selected startups will collaborate with corporates to rapidly scale solutions for water-resource management challenges with potential...
Since the launch of Finfind’s Access to Finance portal at the end of 2015, more than 26 000 small businesses have taken the finance readiness quiz to be linked with lenders. The data shows that the most common reason why small businesses are wanting to access finance is to start a business, closely followed...
Not every aspiring entrepreneur is a natural deal-maker. Serial entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Aarya Legal, which offers legal services to entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses, Maushami Chetty, has a unique perspective on the power of negotiation for small and growing businesses. Negotiation is defined as a discussion aimed at reaching an agreement. So, for successful...
Running and growing a business is not always easy, especially in these tough economic times. Business owners need to keep their existing clients happy, manage their staff and attend to all administrative, marketing, financial and accounting needs. They also need to constantly adapt their product and service offerings to stay relevant (more so now...
What’s the worst that can happen if you do not protect your company’s intellectual property? Worst case scenario — you can lose everything you’ve worked so hard to build. IN THE CONTEXT of a cut-throat business world, the naivety of a first-time entrepreneur or SME owner can often lead to dire consequences for the entrepreneur’s...
