Running your own business? Want to run your own business? Either way, ENGEN Pitch & Polish is the platform you need to launch you on the path to success! Now in its ninth year, ENGEN Pitch & Polish is a national entrepreneurial workshop and competition programme that – so far – has helped around 10 000...
Tech portal and advisory service AppsAfrica.com has opened entries for the 2018 AppsAfrica Innovation Awards set to be held on 12 November in Cape Town. Applications close 7 September, with finalists set to be announced on 8 October. The annual awards now in their fourth year, are open to startups and corporates which have launched...
Standard Bank has launched a new campaign to help South Africa’s budding entrepreneurs turn their side hustles into their main hustles by providing them with funding equivalent to as much as one year’s salary in order to encourage them to take the plunge and start their own business without the fear of losing their...
After breaking award records on the 2017 edition, Seedstars World, the largest startup competition for emerging markets, is back in Africa to scout for the top high growth startups and entrepreneurs and accelerate them on their path to global scaling. Local winners will be invited to represent their country at the Regional Summit in...
Our labour laws are constantly evolving as the South African government seeks to balance stronger protections for employees with the need to create a business-friendly investment climate. We can expect to see a number of amendments to the country’s core labour law acts – the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and the Unemployment Insurance...
The UCT Graduate School of Business’s Solution Space is offering 15 start-ups incubation to the value of R300 000 in advisory services, mentorship, and co-working space per start-up. Entrepreneurs have just less than a month left to apply to its 2018 Venture Incubation Programme (VIP) winter school based in Cape Town. Applications for the 15...
On the 24th of April 2018, AB InBev Africa through its local country markets went live with their very first Africa Sustainability Challenge! They are looking for Africa’s top innovation entrepreneurs to solve our continent, and the world’s Sustainability Challenges. As a global company, they want to continue to brew beer and build brands...
FNB - proud champions of Entrepreneurship in SA - are sponsoring an elite cohort of fast growth businesses on the 10X Accelerator Program. The 10X Accelerator is an 18-month program to help elite entrepreneurs who’re 10X-ing their business! If you qualify, you’ll receive immeasurably valuable assistance from the 10X Accelerator team, that will put...
The Inventors Garage and Pitching Den competitions are closing at the end of the month. For entrepreneurs out there that have not entered, now is the time to do so. Finalists will receive market and media exposure, access to investment capital through our Match & Invest platform, a chance to represent Africa at the World Startup...
The #1 make-or-break issue in Scaling Up is building the right team. Building an A-team is easy when you’re a team of 10 or 15. The challenge is doing it as you scale beyond that. The dilemma is you can’t afford hiring mistakes, yet you have to delegate hiring to relatively inexperienced hiring managers! Being involved...
