Work the index
The list below is deliberately dense: scan dates, titles, and excerpts quickly, then open the essay that catches the thread.
Twenty-four articles per page keep the archive moving without making each card compete for attention.
Category: Entrepreneurship
Roadmap
Read with direction.
Use this category as a focused corridor, then widen the map when a related question starts pulling you into another part of the archive.
Start with foundations
When you want the personal and philosophical base of the archive, begin with the Theory of the World essays.
Cross the boundary
Most useful ideas do not stay in one lane. Move sideways when a theme needs another lens.
Return to the whole
Step out of this category when you want the full field rather than one territory.
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Unique Challenges of Family Owned and Operated Businesses
Unique challenges of family-owned and operated businesses By Riaan Steenberg Dec 2014 The main objective of this paper is to briefly highlight the challenges…
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Fast Growing Startups in Africa: What Matters Now
Financial M-Pesa Paystack (Nigeria) TopCheck (South Africa) Snapscan Paga Zoona Interswitch Wealth Migrate Riovic BitPesa Flutterwave Lendable Lidya Pula…
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Wanting Vs Having – the Key to Deciding to Become an Entrepreneur
Wanting vs having – the key to deciding to become an entrepreneur We are often frustrated when we realise that we cannot have and we then get into space that…
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Teaching Yourself to Be an Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship programmes are often flawed. As an educator and lecturer I get to spend a lot of time with entrepreneurs and recently I started focusing on…
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Stimulating Entrepreneurship in Developing Markets
Stimulating entrepreneurship in developing markets Is entrepreneurship in the developing markets the same as entrepreneurship in more established markets?
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Innovation and the Phoenix Checklist
The CIA developed the Phoenix Checklist to enable their agents to think through situations and face all angles.
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Serious About Business – The MBA
An MBA is not only a qualification. It is a serious commitment to disciplined management thinking, better judgement and the ability to lead in complex business conditions.
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Understanding Business Growth
Understanding business growth Small and medium businesses experience a common set of problems in moving through growth stages and the choices of management…
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Adapting Business Models for Emerging Markets
Increasingly companies are looking for their future growth in emerging markets. Up to now the recommendation has been that only way that companies can…
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Eight Practical Steps to Starting a Business
It’s not how many hours you work nor is it how many hurdles you must overcome, rather business is about getting from point a to point b in the quickest manner possible while maintaining product quality and healthy margins. Often, when starting a business, entrepreneurs think too much about small details. Since time is our
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Practical Innovation
Most theories of innovation fall short of giving a practical approach that can actually be used to innovate.
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Mentoring Yourself for Entrepreneurial Success
Mentoring yourself for entrepreneurial success When people look for mentors they often the power of giving themselves good advice and following it.
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The Science of Business
A lot of entrepreneurs focus on their gut feel and intuition to get ahead in the game. This may not be the only or best approach and there is a lot that can…
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The Entrepreneurial Challenge
Most non-entrepreneurs think that the biggest entrepreneurial challenge is to raise capital.
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Consistency vs Innovation
Organisations often speak about consistency and innovation as if they are opposites. Consistency sounds like discipline, reliability, standards, repetition…
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Quick to Market – Rapidly Launching Businesses
What does it really take to start a business? Many people believe that you need a complex business plan, lots of funding and a marketing budget to get to…
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The Zen of Business
Zen is the art of minimalism. To search for Zen is to find the essence of being and to express it. It comes from insight and the world outside and the world…
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The Freemium Business Model
A business education provider recently launched business education content to the world using the freemium business model. This article outlines how freemium works. Back to the basics of economics The first thing you learn when starting economics is a concept called TANSTAFL There aint no so thing as (a) free lunch, first published as Economics
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Business in Your Pocket
Many users lament the state of the internet in South Africa. A recent report by MyBroadband (http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/61094-the-state-of-broadband-in-south-africa.html) shows that the average internet speeds in South Africa have moved to close to the 1.8 Mbps. It is estimated that an additional R 200 billion will be required over the next period in both public and private