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Fast Company Showcasing innovative businesses that are changing their industries. Providing you with listings of businesses, business tips and recommended business resources.The job of an entrepreneur – Taming chaos
For the last five years, I have been a full-time entrepreneur, building a company which today, has over 400 people on the payroll. Prior to that, I had been an academic for 10 years, and […]
Getting Real About The Digital World
To compete in the digital world, large organisations need to review their digital transformation commitment, become more agile and get change ready. Agility and acceptance of perpetual change are the key to unlocking the next […]
Taking the pulse of the natural world
The rise of the Internet of Things and other mobile technologies offers humanity the opportunity to truly advance their efforts in preserving and saving the environment in more innovative and relevant ways. Humanity today finds […]
Keeping It Clean and Simple
Solar systems are one of the greatest inventions on the planet, converting sunlight into electricity without harming the environment. Jaco Venter is a CEO making moves to eradicate the use of and dependency on fossil […]
Crowd Funding Initiative For Students
South Africa’s University Student Dropout Rate has over the years been escalating at an alarming rate. To date it is at 60% according to SA’s Science Forum. The main cause of students dropping out of […]
SqwidNet wins the IoT Product/Service of the Year Award at the 10th AfricaCom Awards
At the 10th AfricaCom Awards this week, SqwidNet won the award for IoT Product/Service of the Year. SqwidNet, the licensed SIGFOX IoT network operator in South Africa, received this award for the best platform or […]
The winning idea that helps make South Africa safer
The difference that exposure, mentorship and investment can make to emerging entrepreneurs is invaluable. And it’s made all the more exciting when the young people are recognised for their brilliant idea that stands to make […]
How African early-stage investors play a critical role in moving the continent forward
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 7, 2017 The 4th annual African Angel Investor Summit – #AAIS2017 – is set to be the next meeting point for Africa’s early-stage investor community. The place to be on November 15-16 […]
How digitisation impacts your SME
The answer seems obvious. The rise of the Internet certainly makes it easier for entrepreneurs to reach a larger audience and increase brand awareness. That is assuming you have access to the Internet to harness […]
Innovation is a dynamic Culture
He is deeply entrenched in the new wave of digital technology coming to the fore and has wide-ranging experience in structuring transformation business engagements around digitisation, smart- technology sourcing, business-aligned IT, technology-portfolio optimisation and future-edge […]
From the Editor: The Secret
We have all been there. Looming deadlines, tight schedules and a vast amount of work to do with seemingly inadequate resources or manpower. Yet we somehow get it done or at least spectacularly fail while […]
ANA News Wire Launches in Kampala
The African News Agency (ANA) on Friday announced the launch of its new public-facing ANA News Wire as the single most comprehensive platform for African news to inform, enlighten and connect the continent and the […]
Taming chaos – the job of an entrepreneur
We tend not to like chaos. It’s in our make-up. We fight it where we can. In large companies, it messes with production, it increases variance, and, in general, creates a headache for the bureaucracy. […]
Innovation Is A Culture
Passionate about demonstrating technology as a true enable or business transformation, Saurabh Kumar is a CEO of In2IT Technologies South Africa and co-found of In2IT Group, which has offices in 9 countries globally. Kumar holds […]
From the Editor: Clean Is Progressive
There is no standard definition of clean technology. It has been described by Clean Edge (a clean technology research firm) as “a diverse range of products, services, and processes that harness renewable materials and energy […]
The Future Will Be Augmented
“If you take one thing away from today,” Mark Zuckerberg announced in April from the stage of F8, Facebook’s annual conference for developers, “this is it: We’re making the [smartphone] camera the first augmented-reality platform.” […]
MTN Business App of the Year crowns Winner for 2017
The sixth edition of the MTN Business App of the Year Awards concluded last night with the announcement of an overall winner, as well as various category winners. The gala event hosted in Johannesburg was […]
Generation Why-Not
Youth Month brought with it the usual barrage of commentary on Africa’s youth bulge and concomitant dearth of jobs on the continent. The narrative is frequently that young Africans have no option but to step […]
Build Your A-Team
Frankly, the current way of working between marketing agencies and clients is in a state of flux, and we’re not sure what’s coming next. We’ve seen this before, but this time it’s different. We know […]
From Fad to Favourite
The first step ever taken by Homo sapiens was probably in the general direction of a congregation of sorts. Humans have always gathered around things that matter to them: religion, ideology, food, family, technology, recreation […]
For All The World To See
Poor Generation Z and Alpha; for most of them, their online brand starts from day one in hospital, in mom’s arms as she smiles for the Facebook and Instagram post. #newborn #babygirl #instababies. . . […]
James Wilkinson scoops top prize in the SAICA Top 35 under 35 CA(SA) competition
The Top 35-under-35 competition is a competition launched by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) in 2014 to recognise its young CA(SA) achievers. It has proved to be a huge success in recognizing […]
The Growth Academy community grows by 1,000 entrepreneurs in just one week
Over 1,000 entrepreneurs flocked to The Growth Academy last week, to access the podcast and workshop series that claims to offer entrepreneurs the exact guidance they need to ‘move from idea to business in just […]
A model of a digital storm
Founding MainBoard.com in the 90’s was the right step in the right direction for Bradley Zetler as it fulfilled his vision to improve efficiency and invent revolutionary technologies that will become industry standard in the model […]
