Here are 10 start up tips from Michael Browning, director at MOBI and Bluefish Wireless. “Business plans never end up working the way you intend. Do your homework first, but find a way to just get out there and do it.” “Especially when working with partners, creating a strong operating agreement is critical. Hire the [...]

I was recently asked by master marketer Jay Abraham to be on his radio program, “The Ultimate Entrepreneur.” along with several others, including Stephen Covey and Mark Cuban. In that company, I knew I had my work cut out for me! Let’s start with the basics. What better way than to create the ABCs of [...]

EBay Inc named mobile technology entrepreneur David Marcus president of its PayPal unit on Thursday, replacing Scott Thompson, who left in January to become chief executive of Yahoo Inc. The appointment shows the importance of PayPal’s push into mobile payments globally and its efforts to process transactions in physical stores, not just online. Marcus, a [...]

SA’s biggest mobile social network is gearing up to facilitate local entrepreneurship through its mobile wallet and upcoming application programming interface (API) platform. CEO of MXit Alan Knott-Craig Jnr emphasised the importance of promoting local talent and “making people believe in themselves”, last night at an event hosted by digital marketing company Heavy Chef. To [...]

In the latest of our series of articles on how to create jobs, Helen Zille writes about the urgent need to give all South Africans a fair chance THE week before the state of the nation address, I walked through some streets of Cape Town to find out from members of the public what they [...]

America’s Silicon Valley is a combination of different factors all bought together in one place. It is a fearsome combination of experienced people, capital and ideas. Several attempts have been made to put in place in Africa the start-up and early stage capital required to create the funding end but they have in the past [...]

Important Thing to Note No. 1: You’re not as bad a speaker as you think. “When we have people give talks in shyness groups, they often do much better than they thought they did. There’s a tendency to underrate your performance when you’re feeling shy,” says Dr. Lynne Henderson, director of the Shyness Institute, a [...]

Executives, leaders, sales people and professionals are all searching for a definitive answer on what constitutes an extraordinary leader. There’s abundant research on this topic and many sets of answers. I have spent my 11 years of leadership coaching searching and questioning to find the ultimate answer and have discovered it’s not that simple. People [...]