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Blockchain-based financial reporting has potential to empower SMMEs
It can eliminate the need for expensive and time-consuming manual audits, creating verifiable financial histories automatically, with minimal cost.
How to boost your business credit using alternative funding strategies
There are ways for start-ups and small and medium enterprises to avoid financing problems
Q&A sessions: Where are the Zuckerbergs of South Africa?
Haroon Meer, the founder of the multimillion-dollar startup Thinkst, talks about international acclaim and South Africa’s need for more tech builders
As the economy inches open, South Africa’s startups prepare for a post-Covid world
The pandemic offers opportunities for online businesses that deliver services ranging from education and communication with clients to delivering groceries, but it doesn’t come…
Nigeria’s start-up scene is growing fast
In the middle of Lagos, young entrepreneurs develop business ideas and put together their first start-ups. But only a few will actually survive
IoT tech fires up savvy SA start-ups
The internet of things is sparking innovative solutions to local problems, as small businesses devise smart devices to improve lives
African start-ups draw interest after slow start
African high-tech startups are minuscule compared with their US and European peers but they are finally gaining momentum and attention
Banking on irrationality
The area in which we should be the most clear-headed, our personal finances, is usually the deepest vortex of self-delusion.