Today is Equal Pay Day – a date that symbolises just how many more months’ women need to work to earn what men did the year before. In South Africa, [...]

Nothing is more effective than interpersonal relationships, says Richard Branson and his company Virgin, who recently posted an infographic that clearly links face-to-face contact as being 85% more effective in building strong, [...]

Women play a substantial role in growing the economy and the lagging participation of women in South Africa’s economy is manifesting in less innovation, fewer exports and fewer jobs being [...]

It has been a difficult year for South Africa. In September the World Bank downgraded South Africa’s 2017 growth forecast to 0.6 percent, down from 1.1 percent at the beginning [...]

South Africa needs to do more to accelerate female entrepreneurs if the country is to meet the National Development Plan’s (NDP) target of creating 11 million jobs by 2030. Last year [...]

South Africa’s latest unemployment figures make for sombre reading. While official unemployment is now 27.7 percent, the most affected group are young people under the age of 35 with a [...]

If you have never responded to a bid or proposal, you will be forgiven for feeling like giving up, once you see the list of information required. However, if you [...]

Networking is key requirement for entrepreneurs and can be an effective form of personal and business marketing. If it’s done badly, however, it can actually do more harm than good. [...]

The area of BEE and the revised codes may seem complicated, but with the right tools you’ll be able to sound like you know your stuff in no time. Here [...]

Applying for funding is more than a case of having a few customers and a great idea; if you want to convince others that you and your business are worth [...]

Click here to read this insightful article where Donna Rachelson, Chief Catalyst of Seed Academy gives her view point on “Defining the fairer sex – How the fast-tracking of gender [...]

Ran Neu-Ner, Co-founder of The Creative Counsel – South Africa’s biggest activations agency and subject of the biggest media company buyout in the country’s history, recently shared his entrepreneurial journey [...]

Opinion by Donna Rachelson and Shawn Theunissen A tick-box approach to the scorecard for the Revised Codes of Good Practice for Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) will not normaliseour society [...]

It’s well known that many entrepreneurs often get caught up in the day-to-day running of their businesses and don’t give enough thought to marketing. You might be patting yourself on [...]

The 2016 series of Seed Academy’s Alumni events kicked off with a bang! We were incredibly honored to have serial technology entrepreneur, Vinny Lingham take time out of his busy [...]

Gaining customers and engaging with the market is one of the greatest challenges faced by early stage entrepreneurs, according to the Seed Academy Startup Survey. Without an identifiable name and [...]

The need to develop and fast track entrepreneurs in South Africa is critical. The unemployment rate is 25 percent and concurrently economic growth has slowed. Yet there is no shortage of [...]

At the recent Alumni event, Ryan Bacher, CEO of Netflorist, spoke to the Seed Entrepreneurs and gave advice to the eager listeners. His advice was summed up as the following: [...]

People are being rejected left, right and center when applying for loans from financial institutions now that the credit rating system has come into place and on entrepreneurs looking for [...]

South African start up entrepreneurs are notorious for asking for funding earlier than is realistic and they have unrealistic expectations when they are looking for funding too. So before you [...]

One of the more recent fashions in funding is something termed ‘crowd-funding’, started in the states by a musician and computer programmer who created an online platform where people could [...]

Every marketing guru is talking about content marketing and why it’s a good idea – even more so for entrepreneurs. . As an entrepreneur you have to weigh up effort [...]

The City of Johannesburg in partnership with Wits University, earlier this year launched an initiative to give Johannesburg based innovators who want to make a change in their community, an opportunity to turn [...]

This article forms part of the Youth Month 2015 series in which SME South Africa, throughout the month of June, will highlight the work of young entrepreneurs and innovators who are shaping SA’s future. A call for young [...]

Many entrepreneurs grapple with the vexing problem of how to increase their business. In this post we’ll show you the 3 main areas where you can increase your business, using [...]

Whether you’re a start-up or an established business free publicity is valuable for you to get your marketing message and brand promise out.  What you’re ultimately trying to do is [...]

As entrepreneurs (especially, start-up entrepreneurs) we wear a lot of hats. Marketer, sales person, accounts person, product producer, counsellor, boss, father, mother, taxi and the like. So, there are a [...]

Whether you are an entrepreneur or marketing manager, if you’re spending any money or time on marketing or advertising, you’ll want to measure if you are getting a real return [...]

Your financial model is your numerical art piece- an exciting story that paints a picture of what your business could become. Your financial model will help Investors to ascertain how [...]

In business, the old adage often still rings true: it’s not what you know; it’s who you know, I am sure that we have heard that in just about every [...]

Seed Academy’s Think. Be. Do. Alumni and guests with many being local entrepreneurs, were treated to an enlightening evening with serial entrepreneur and founder of the Sorbet Group, Ian Fuhr. [...]

What NOT TO DO Before Starting a Business Too often entrepreneurs spend time planning the finer details of their business before figuring out whether or not they have a product [...]

On the other hand, we can do something for those school and university leavers who have great ideas, who want to develop them into successful businesses, but need the support [...]

Nelson Mandela wanted a better life for all. To celebrate Mandela Day, Seed Engine, which supports early stage entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, is offering a free ten week entrepreneurial [...]

120 early stage tech entrepreneurs are being offered a valuable opportunity of a better chance in succeeding with the offer of free training. Seed Academy, a school for entrepreneurs, offers [...]

The biggest challenge for South African entrepreneurs is crossing the chasm between ideation and the world of investable start-up, says Lara Rosmarin, CEO of Seed Academy. Local start-up incubator Seed [...]

With the rise of enterprise development programmes, we take a look at who really benefits  Enterprise development (ED) is fast gaining momentum both from government’s support through the introduction and enforcement of BB-BEE [...]