Young Money

How One Man Can Change The World We Live In

Fellow readers it is with great delight and relief that I compose this long overdue article to let you know that the young, humble, inquisitive, enthusiastic and innovative visionary that was on the quest to raise US$10000, in order to attend the Third Annual Unreasonable Institute, has made it.

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2012

May

Let’s do it for the youth, for our country, for Afrika

Another year has come and gone, a new one awaits us. Trusting that it will be full of prosperity and everything else that you are anticipating.

Behold, I bring to you an entrepreneur that has hit the road running and in request for your push in the right direction. About to put South Africa on the World’s Green map once again.

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2012

Jan

The Influence of the Media

Over the last few years there has been a much greater media interest in entrepreneurship with television programmes such as The Mind of a Millionaire as well as more newspaper stories and features on business success. These stories often focus on get-rich-quick schemes and people are often portrayed as overnight successes.

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2011

Dec

Customer for Life

And now for a practical lesson to entrepreneurship – our good fight.

The TACTIC: Get an IOU for everything you do.

The STORY:

“I’m sick and tired of running around doing favour after favour for my clients,” stated Kagiso as he sat eating lunch with Kabelo.

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2011

Nov

Entrepreneurship vs self-employment

In the 1970s the economist E. F. Schumacher set the scene for environmental sustainability with Small is Beautiful. But small is not beautiful for entrepreneurs: small is a stigma.

Small connotes self-employment and stagnation, which is not only different from entrepreneurship; it is fundamentally its opposite.

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2011

Oct

A Business man Father to Son: Letter No. 5

PLOT: Letter from John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Co., at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont Graham, at Lake Moosgatchemawamuc, in the Maine woods. Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion to go to Europe in celebration of completing his semester, to work for his father’s business instead.

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2011

Sep

Interview with Mr. Knox

Born in 1976 in Meadowlands, Zone 3, SOWETO, JHB. I am a third and last born in the family and have an older sister and an older brother. My mother married and separated with my father when I was three.

In 1980 she moved with us to QwaQwa and a couple of places afterwards before she eventually settled in WARMBATHS (BELA BELA) in 1983, where she worked as a domestic worker.

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2011

Aug

Marketing Plan 101

There are literally volumes written about marketing planning. It boils down to developing your roadmap. What paths will you take, which turns will you make and, most important of all, where are you going?

Unless you have an endpoint on your road map, how do you know which path to take? In the words of Yogi Berra: “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”

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2011

Jun

A Business man Father to Son: Letter No. 4

Your request in the letter is as clichéd as a puppy chasing its tail; often then not, it does not know what to do with it once its caught. But I gather from it that you want to spend a couple of months in Europe before coming on here and getting your hands dirty.

Of course, you are your own boss now and you ought to be able to judge better than any one else how much time you have to waste,

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2011

Jun

A Business man Father to Son: Letter No. 3

Dear Pierrepont: No, I can’t say that I think anything of your post-graduate course idea. You’re not going to be a poet or a professor, but a packer, and the place to take a post-graduate course for that calling is in the packing-house.

Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow.

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2011

Jun