Entrepreneurship

Innovation In Business: Think New Things, Do New Things

Innovation In Business: Think New Things, Do New Things

Volatile business landscapes, unpredictable markets, complexity and competition are just some of the drivers that keep business leaders searching for…

Hate Being Stuck Behind a Desk? 7 Business Ideas For You

Hate Being Stuck Behind a Desk? 7 Business Ideas For You

Here are seven business ideas that will allow you meet new people, contribute to your community and won’t keep you…

10 SA Entrepreneurs Who Built Their Businesses From Nothing

10 SA Entrepreneurs Who Built Their Businesses From Nothing

Remarkable stories about local entrepreneurs who built big businesses and well known brands up from humble beginnings. NetFlorist, SA’s largest…

South Africa’s Top Inventions That Went Global

South Africa’s Top Inventions That Went Global

South Africa is never top of the list when people think of inventions, but perhaps that is because they don’t…

How An Experimental Floral Business Boomed

How An Experimental Floral Business Boomed

NetFlorist launched on Valentine’s Day in 1999. It seemed like the perfect day to test out a flower business, which…

The Time To Think About The 3D-Printed Future Is Now

The Time To Think About The 3D-Printed Future Is Now

3-D printing, or additive manufacturing, is likely to revolutionize business in the next several years. Often dismissed in the popular…

10 Behaviors Of Smart People

10 Behaviors Of Smart People

“Stupid is as stupid does.” The great irony of Forrest Gump was how insightful his simplistic sayings really were. Sort of the…

Curiosity Is As Important As Intelligence

Curiosity Is As Important As Intelligence

There seems to be wide support for the idea that we are living in an “age of complexity”, which implies…

Innovators In Waiting

Innovators In Waiting

To tap into the wellspring of human ingenuity and crank up the innovation capacity of our society, we need to…

Why Privatization Is Not Enough

Why Privatization Is Not Enough

Most Western businesspeople believe that privatization is the key to salvaging state-owned enterprises in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet…