South Africa faces significant challenges of unemployment, food security, crime and environmental sustainability. SMMEs are critical to addressing these issues and inclusive and sustainable economy through job creation and service delivery. It is therefore essential that we support these SMMEs. For the last 10 months the New Economy Accelerator has been incubating entrepreneurs that service […]
SAB’s flagship enterprise development programme, SAB KickStart will embark on a month-long recruitment campaign this Youth Month, using a new innovative #StartupTruck that will travel across the country on a youth entrepreneurship drive to find South Africa’s promising young entrepreneurs. The campaign, targeted at entrepreneurs and innovators between the ages of 18 and 35, will […]
If you want to do business and make money ask a serial entrepreneur, if you want to do business and do good while making money then ask a social entrepreneur. There has never been a greater need for social entrepreneurs than during this period when the world is experiencing some of the most complex challenges. […]
Technology and data are transforming the way consumers and businesses interact with each other, driving a need to bring new ideas to market with greater speed. The right corporate-startup partnership gives startups an accelerated path to scale innovative solutions. The MasterCard Start Path Global 2016 program has been designed with that objective and has launched […]
Twice a year, in the heart of Silicon Valley, a startup accelerator called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs. Months of intense work culminates in Demo Day, when investors and venture capitalists flock to hear their pitches. Any one of them might turn out to be the next DropBox (class of 2007) […]
Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund and startup accelerator, 500 Startups, has announced its 14th batch of startups, which includes the South African home cleaning service, SweepSouth. This is the first time a local company has been selected by 500 Startups, with only a handful of African companies being chosen to join the programme in the […]
Designers, creatives, coders and techies: fire up your brains, sharpen your pencils, polish your screwdrivers or soldering irons, and get ready to hack – entries have opened for this year’s Break.Make.Create. (#BreakMakeCreate15) hackathon. Break.Make.Create. is the brainchild of digital and interactive agency Hellocomputer, and was created to not only improve the skill set of the […]
Recently launched black business incubator Riversands Incubation Hub is seeking high potential entrepreneurs to join its on-campus acceleration programme. The Riversands Incubation Hub, funded by Century Property Developments and The Jobs Fund, officially opened in March 2015. Since then, the Hub has received a steady stream of applications, and so far 14 of the top […]
The South African Breweries (SAB) has evolved its 20-year old youth entrepreneurship programme, SAB KickStart, expanding it into three enterprise development initiatives. The three programmes are SAB KickStart Ignite, SAB KickStart Boost and SAB KickStart Elevate, each targeting youth-owned businesses with different areas of focus and at varying stages of operation. This three-pronged approach and commitment to enterprise development […]
SAB KickStart, the South African Breweries’ (SAB) youth entrepreneurship programme, announced the competition’s Top 18 national finalists for 2015, during a grant allocation ceremony at SAB’s World of Beer in Newtown, Johannesburg, today. Each of the finalists has begun an intensive business development support programme, which will culminate in an award ceremony to celebrate the […]