Business experience aids entrepreneurs

There are three important reasons why some business experiences can give an entrepreneur a real advantage.

A toolkit for any business

A local online resource is providing much-needed information for potential business owners.

Starting a business? First find yourself a mentor

Entrepreneurs typically set out to use mentors as a substitute for their own lack of experience.

Turning ideas into cash

Universities need to be realistic about what they can earn by patenting and commercialising research, writes Barrie Terblanche.

Hot ideas

Two academics have found that creating a platinum smelter is easier than taking it to the market, writes Barrie Terblanche.

It’s the economy, stupid

Barrie Terblanche reports on a professor who is querying the role of small business in job creation.

‘Scales fell from my eyes’

Ziggy Owei describes herself as “a living example” that entrepreneurship can be taught.

A leap in the dark

At the age of 45, with two-year-old twins at home, John Gilmour resigned from his comfortable job as a private-school principal in Cape Town.

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