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Fundamo Dairies — Building real solutions for big clients [Part 2]

The following article is the second in a series of extracts from South African entrepreneur Hannes Van Rensburg’s upcoming book, Cash In, Cash Out….

Sink or swim: keep your startup afloat in 5 ways

Every entrepreneur’s dream is to launch a startup that breaks growth records and becomes an industry leader. Growth is the whole point, right? But…

Fundamo diaries: launching the world’s first mobile money service in Africa [Part 1]

The following article is part of a series of extracts from South African entrepreneur Hannes Van Rensburg’s upcoming book, Cash In, Cash Out. The…

How can a startup ensure customer satisfaction in the long run?

There is no denying the fact that technology rules the world today. But even with all the benefits of technology, there are a lot…

Logistics: the backbone of South Africa’s ecommerce boom

South African ecommerce is in a better place today than at any other time in its history. According to research released by PayPal earlier…

Top ecommerce strategies for customer acquisition and retention

In the last couple of years, we’ve seen a major shift in focus among ecommerce merchandising sites. Up until about the year 2011, most…

This crowdsourced phrasebook app wants to help South Africans understand each other

South Africa, like our ever globalising world, is made up of a really diverse bunch. It’s colourful but often messy. This is where Aweza…

3 vital truths about running a business you should know about

Management textbooks and the business press are full of advice about creating entrepreneurial business models, shaking up markets, and offering game-changing customer experiences. As…

5 mistakes SA entrepreneurs should avoid when going lean

The lean startup has changed the way new companies are being launched. It is a methodology that has been used by the likes of…

Is impact investment the key to fixing Africa’s socio-environmental issues?

As is the case with many emerging markets, South Africa has its fair share of socio-environmental problems. If it’s not unsustainable food supply its…

6 ways to save your business from difficult customers

No business, big or small, has the right to brazenly and publicly offend customers just because of their religion, nationality, or skin colour. There…

What does success mean for women in Africa?

Over the last few weeks, Nigerians have taken to Twitter to discuss what it meant to be a woman in Nigeria. The conversation highlighted…

RetroEpic Software talks us through growing a game studio in SA

Ventureburn recently had a chance to sit down with one of South Africa’s older game development studios, RetroEpic Software. We spoke to co-founder Niki…

MMI’s Jaco Oosthuizen on innovation, what corporates can learn from startups [Q&A]

A little while back we told you about the Startupbootcamp Insurance Accelerator Programme, launched with the support of JSE-listed MMI Holdings. The accelerator programme,…

5 crucial reasons startups tend to mismanage their finances

Financial Management is one of the main reasons many startups fail. And, sadly in many cases this is caused by the entrepreneur themselves, making…

From startup to fintech empire: WiGroup sells stake to Investec for ‘R400m’

It’s not often in the entrepreneur world that you hear of investments from banks, but here is one such story involving a very successful…

How online food delivery startup Food-i-like is making it outside of Lagos

The last time I was at the offices of African Internet Group (AIG) in Nigeria’s tech capital city of Lagos, I noticed that there…

Everything you need to know about the South African startup ecosystem [2015/2016 Update]

Update: Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or…

Why deep dives into SA’s townships could change fintech innovation

The marked increase in activity around the disruption of digital currency and fintech in South Africa is partly due to two factors: firstly, large…

SweepSouth weighs in on experience at Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups accelerator

SweepSouth is a having a good first year. Just after the South African on-demand domestic cleaning startup secured its first investment, it got accepted…

11 ways to spot a big-time Silicon Cape startup guy

You can spot a big-time Silicon Cape guy or gal from a mile away. And it just so happens that we here at Ventureburn…

Here’s why SMEs should be wary of information security

If you run a small business, you may think that data breaches and cybercrime are concerns mostly for big banks, retailers and telecoms companies….

Patrick Kayton on Cognician’s revamped self-coaching platform [Q&A]

Cape Town, South Africa-based self-coaching platform Cognician recently launched a new version of their software, entitled C3, which helps users collect and organise their…

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