Books

Here are four books you should consider reading this festive season [Book reviews]

By now most of us are winding down business as we prepare for the festive break. For most this is a great time to…

Polish businessman’s tales of fear and loathing in Nigeria [Book review]

Chasing Black Unicorns: How Building the Amazon of Africa put me on Interpol’s most wanted list by controversial Polish entrepreneur Marek Zmyslowski, is a thrilling…

Is this the six-step formula that can help your startup deliver the winning pitch? [Book]

Ventureburn is giving away three copies of the book to three lucky readers in South Africa. See footer of this story for more information….

Why only 5.4% of owners are able to sell their business and what to do about it [Book]

You started your business to change the world. Or to make a packet of money from the sales you’d generate. But after sweating it…

New guidebook to be launched on Joburg’s startup scene

South Africa’s commercial capital Joburg is fast becoming the country’s next big startup city. A survey by Ventureburn in November last year revealed that…

New guidebook on Cape Town’s startup scene to launch

Startup Guide, a European publisher that produces guidebooks on various startup scenes around the globe, will next week launch Startup Guide Cape Town —…

Here’s what late Matt Buckland had to say about these big tech, advertising personalities

Vinny Lingham, Koos Bekker, Matt Mullenweg. These are just three big tech and advertising personalities that the late Matthew Buckland mentions in his new…

You think it’s never going to happen to you, but it’s happening to me – Matthew Buckland [Book extract]

The below extract is taken from Matthew Buckland’s “So You Want To Build A Startup”, out now in book stores (see details below of…

Tafelberg publishers launch late Matthew Buckland’s book

After leaving the corporate world, the late Matthew Buckland — who passed away in April from cancer — built a digital marketing business, Creative…

Matthew Buckland shares all in brutally honest memoir [Review]

The late Matthew Buckland was an icon and a digital pioneer in his field. The story of how he got there, detailed in the…

Entrepreneurs tell how they grew thriving business in ‘How we made it in Africa’

Running your own company is an intense roller coaster ride, where the highs are high, and the lows debilitatingly low. Sometimes, it helps to…

Heavy Chef founder on four ways startup hires are different [Extract]

Startup hires are different to recruits in established companies. Successful startup hires possess a unique skill set, a different work ethic and a different…

Heavy Chef founder’s 7 things to look for in a good business partner [Extract]

Good business partners challenge each other, and if both partners are able to recognise that, then a business partnership will be constructive rather than destructive….

Simon Dingle sees crptocurrency as shaping new economic order [Extract]

Money, argues SA investor and speaker Simon Dingle who has been designing crypocurrencies since 2011, is perhaps the most important human invention after language. But…

Top SA tech personalities on the books every entrepreneur should read in 2018

If there’s one thing that all successful entrepreneurs have in common it’s that they are all avid readers. But with so many books out…

Being an entrepreneur means knowing yourself – Alan Knott-Craig [Extract]

No one need tell you that to succeed as an entrepreneur is hard work. What many don’t tell you is that it takes an…

Alan Knott-Craig book – set yourself up to deal with adversity [Extract]

In being an entrepreneur you have to deal with adversity all the time. It could be closing that first sale, making a new hire…

Netflix drops official ‘Ghost in the Shell’ trailer ahead of April release

Cape Town dams in much better shape in January 2020 than 2018

Google Search might look a bit different in the coming weeks

Changes to Section 12J VC regime won’t spell doom for all funds says venture capitalist

Grant Brooke announces he’s stepped down from managing Twiga Foods

YEEP Africa founder decries lack of investments in youth-led startups in South Africa

Apex Legends trailer teases fans with new season 4 character’s death

Overwatch League, Call of Duty League to stream on YouTube

Motorola Razr 2019’s screen is made with ‘bumps and lumps’ in mind

Audi’s AI:ME could be the company’s future A2

BMW confirms the iX3’s battery and power details

The true cost of Audi’s electric car strategy