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If you consider yourself an entrepreneur - someone with an adept business acumen, an affinity for risk-taking and developing ideas into marketable, scalable companies - then you probably haven't considered entering the hit reality television show The X Factor. Well one show you should consider entering is its spin-off competition, Entrepreneur 'X' Factor, which promises to appreciate your skill-set, and give you an opportunity to fast-track your business idea.
Brought to you by "transformational coaching and events company" Rock Your Life, ... 
The pitch deck. An under-appreciated animal. The visual 'powerpoint' that accompanies a startup's pitch often doesn't get the time it deserves, but visually presenting your business model and market-strategy in an efficient way to potential investors is key to winning them over. After all venture capitalists and angel investors are busy people. Luckily there's a company in the USA that wants to help you with this.
Born in Austin, Texas, Investor Pitches is a company that not only builds pitch decks ... 
U-Start, the Italian funding platform with a penchant for emerging markets is narrowing its search for six of South Africa’s top startups. The winning teams will be showcased to investors in Milan, Italy from 11 May to 14 May 2013.
U-Start says that it has received entries for its BLOOM Business Plan Competition from over 250 enterprises. 20 finalists have been selected for the South African leg of the business plan competition which will be held at the Bandwidth Barn on ... 
Research commissioned by the World Bank has predicted that Sub-Saharan Africa's travel and tourism industry is expected to achieve an annual growth rate of 5.5% over the next ten years.
The world average, by comparison, is a paltry 4.1%.
Taking this into account, Visa - the global payments technology company - and South African Tourism (SAT) have officially cut the ribbon on the Africa App Quest (AAQ).
In the form of a competition, the AAQ is a challenge to developers to build ... 
Emerging market startups are a dime-a-dozen these days. Getting recognised and separating yourself from the pack is a challenge for any young company, but one way to achieve recognition is by gaining acceptance into an accelerator program run by, or associated with, a respected accelerator.
500 Startups, the ever impressive American seed accelerator, would be one such company to gain recognition through, and a program facilitated by one of its partners, GSF India, is one such program Indian entrepreneurs should explore. ... 
Earlier this year, we took an in-depth look at U-Start, the international funding platform with an emerging market focus. Headquartered in Italy, the platform is running a search for six of South Africa's top startups to showcase to investors in Milan.
U-Start's online platform connects entrepreneurs with international investors. Startups that are keen to enter, are urged to contact U-Start to gain complimentary access to the U-Start platform and instructions on how to apply for the competition.
15 of the most investment ... 
If you're looking for business advice, super entrepreneur Richard Branson seems like a good place to start. In his book 'Screw Business as Usual', the Virgin founder touches on the revolution in standard practice, discussing how doing the right thing may be profitable -- as well as better for humanity.
The book has been called a must read for anyone from entrepreneurs to social activists, and explains why priorities need to shift from just making money to making a difference. ... 
Ghana, a strong West African tech startup region, played host to the first ever TopApps Awards ceremony, held in Accra last week.
The ceremony recognised leading web and mobile applications in 10 categories and were decided through a mix of public voting and deliberation by judges.
Of the 65 nominees, MEST incubator startup Dropifi walked away as overall winners, followed by 233Law, winner of two categories.
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The team behind Dropifi are re-imagining one of the web’s oldest and most resolute elements, the “Contact ... startups | entrepreneurship | startup-news | ecommerce |
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