Entrepreneurship

Why your startup shouldn’t be afraid to scupper a flagship project

Something special happened on the tech scene recently. A well-respected company publicly admitted that its flagship project was no longer working right and discontinued…

Pitching 101: lessons from a Startup Weekend

The power of the pitch cannot be denied, and for many entrepreneurs who participated in the recent Startup Weekend Cape Town event, the hard…

IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program extended to South Africa

This is big. IBM South Africa today confirmed that its Global Entrepreneur Program will for the first time, be extended to entrepreneurs in South…

African incubator encourages social entrepreneurship to improve young lives

Ventureburn readers from Chad, DRC, Rwanda, Senegal and Tanzania might find this compelling. GSM network Millicom, operating under the Tigo brand, and non-profit organisation…

Attention tech gurus: change a budding entrepreneur’s life with Business Bridge

There are fervent entrepreneurs out there, hungry for your entrepreneurial knowledge. Business Bridge, a not-for-profit organisation, is attempting to start a movement which enables…

1 million African entrepreneurs by 2020 says African Entrepreneur Academy

When we took a look at entrepreneurial hub No Picket Fence, we discovered a group of individuals fervently engaged in sharing their entrepreneurial experiences….