Tag Archives: Entrepreneurs

New GIBS Article: A Legacy of Brokering Entrepreneurial Tendencies: A Case Study By Mollie Painter, Daniel Hjorth and Gideon Pogrund

Abstract This paper explores how entrepreneurial legacies can have broader social impact beyond the identity of founders, the organization that they created, or their own philanthropic activity. Thus, we illustrate how, in the South African context, social entrepreneuring may be understood as the values-driven, relational brokering of societal legacies amongst a variety of entrepreneurs. At […]
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New Study Reveals Motherhood’s Toll On Women Entrepreneurs (Forbes)

Women are less likely than men to start new businesses, and when they do, their businesses are less likely to thrive. New research points to a major factor driving this disparity: childbirth. The study reveals that becoming a mother significantly reduces the likelihood of women starting a business. For those already running companies, motherhood leads to declines in profits […]
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Explore our Faculty’s latest research reports at Gordon Institute of Business science :Township Entrepreneurial ecosystem: The Entrepreneurs’ lived experience. By Prof Anastacia Mamabolo and Matshepo Koape

The Township Entrepreneurial Ecosystem research reportpresents an in-depth exploration of the lived experiencesof entrepreneurs operating within South Africa’s townshipeconomies. This research, conducted by the Gordon Instituteof Business Science (GIBS) Entrepreneurship DevelopmentAcademy at the University of Pretoria, with funding supportfrom the Walmart Foundation, aims to illuminate the uniquechallenges and opportunities faced by these entrepreneurs. Asan entrepreneurial […]
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African cocoa plants run out of beans as global chocolate crisis deepens (Bizcommunity)

Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, which means chocolate prices around the world are likely to soar. Chocolate makers have already increased prices to consumers, after three years of poor cocoa harvests, with a fourth expected, […]
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World Bank awards 10 Southern African fintech start-ups $5,000 each (BL)

The move was part of a Fintech Challenge aimed at helping underserved entrepreneurs get their businesses investment ready. The World Bank has awarded 10 Southern African fintech start-ups $5,000 (R94,020) each to help bridge the gap in financial access for innovative emerging companies in underserved communities.  Click here to read the full article

Almost half of small business owners plan to cut hiring because of AI (PCMag)

Most are looking to ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing AI to replace human employees. Small business owners are hoping to employ artificial intelligence instead of humans in the next year—but they don’t believe the technology is coming for their own jobs anytime soon. FreshBooks surveyed 1,000 small business owners in the United States and Canada about their current […]
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MTN avails R1m to empower women-led SMMEs in SA (VB)

Ten women-owned small, medium and micro enterprises will benefit from a R1 million investment investment from the MTN SA Foundation. This, says the mobile giant, will enable innovation, entrepreneurship, and job creation for women in the digital economy. The inaugural 2022 MTN Women in Digital Business Challenge is specifically for less-established women-owned SMMEs who can […]
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Department of Tourism launches incubation programme for tech savvy entrepreneurs (IOL)

Digitalisation has the potential to open new frontiers and improve resource management efficiency and sector competitiveness in tourism, says the Department of Tourism. To this end the department in collaboration with the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), today launched the Tourism Technology Grassroots Innovation Incubator Programme […]
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New GIBS article: The potential of crowdfunding to promote business in the context of an emerging economy by Alet Erasmus, Geoffrey Tocknell and Flip Schutte

Crowdfunding has the potential to change the historic standards of the financial services industry and reduce gaps between supply and demand economics. Over the past ten years, it has received increasing attention. However, the potential that crowdfunding holds in less fortunate economic contexts where SMEs are probably needed the most has not yet attracted the attention that it deserves. Acknowledging the influence of knowledge […]
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The battle of African female startups: For every $1 invested in women, $25 goes to men (News24)

Africa’s female entrepreneurs, like their US and European counterparts, are underrepresented when it comes to raising funds. Their startup journeys are also often a lot more arduous, say investors like Polo Leteka, co-founder of Alitheia IDF, the continent’s largest gender-led fund. The issues are “probably more pronounced here because we have more underlying problems”, said Leteka, pointing to her own experience with tapping […]
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