Ventureburn

Spend some time with your friends around the braai and everyone, at some stage, wants to do their own thing and venture off into…

Failure is harsh, unforgiving and brutal. Failure doesn’t see skin color, ethnicity or socio-economic background. It’s an equal-opportunity offender and is always lurking just…

I owned and ran my own company not too long ago. I had managed to escape the shackles of everyday corporate slavery and venture…

Nigeria’s tech ecosystem is getting attention from within and outside Africa even though the ecosystem is less than a decade old. The successes of…

There are many great programs that can work for your business right now but some of the best are cloud-based ones. These are programs…

A common misperception is that SMEs using old software could put their companies at risk and that such solutions are based on databases considered…

The first quarter of 2016 has proven grim for a number of leading markets, most starkly for the European Union. A year ago, the…

This is interesting. WeChat users signed up to microjobbing service M4JAM were on Monday greeted with a message telling them to cash out all…

In South Africa, most of the focus on entrepreneurship is happening too late. Not all cultures have benefitted from dining room table discussions, or…

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…

Emerging businesses in Africa overwhelmingly fuel the economy and provide the majority of local jobs. Globalization has presented African entrepreneurs with a unique opportunity…

South African-based startup Sendr wants to deliver your packages in a flash. Its on-demand service means parcels can be delivered in an hour. “We’re…