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Starting a new business in an emerging market has always been a daunting task with endless challenges greeting the entrepreneur at every turn. Having…

The bigger the problem, the greater the opportunity. With the increasing popularity of smartphone usage paired with greater internet penetration in Africa, mobile security…

Anyone with an entrepreneurial passion can start a business because startup and marketing costs have plummeted. All this is because of the internet. The…

Selling your house in the 21st Century has come a long way. Days where your only options were to go with an agency or…

There’s not much of a limit on what you can buy online these days. Thing is, in South Africa at least, almost all of…

Online merchants can reduce payment page abandonment by focussing on a few key changes to their payment page which can increase checkout conversion rates….

Springleap made a name for itself selling t-shirts based on crowdsourced designs. It was more or less an African version of Threadless, with artists’…

Mountains, wine and more wine. These are the three things the small Western Cape student town Stellenbosch is probably most well-known for. Those, and…

While developed markets around the world are racing to saturate their territories with high-speed broadband connections, African nations are lagging behind. In South Africa,…

There’s no denying that being a retailer in 2013 is a whole different chapter in the how-to-run-a-successful-store handbook. Your customers used to wander through…

The 2013 Africa Summit (#AfricaSummit), hosted by the Omidyar Network in Mauritius, took place last week on 2 October where delegates from around Africa…

It’s good that we acknowledge entrepreneurs, but I think we sometimes forget to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit — that subtle and yet powerful notion…

Every startup wants to be cool right? Well, how do you go about doing this and how can you benefit from improving your image?…

Google wanted a more networking-friendly Facebook, so it created Google+. Apple’s team wanted its own navigation app, so it tried its hand at Google…

The following is a transcription of a keynote speech made by Memeburn publisher and Creative Spark founder Matthew Buckland at the Youth Entrepreneurs Connect…

With the steady introduction of contactless payment systems in parts of South Africa, a new wave of convenience for low-value transactions is becoming a…