As business owners, people assume that we know everything there is to know about running a business. The truth is that an owner’s passion and skills are more likely to be in the creation of the product or service that they offer. That's why we’ve enlisted industry experts across various fields – helping you bridge knowledge gaps in areas such as accounting, law or marketing.
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Entrihub chats to Robyn Hey, Founder of Robyn Hey Attorneys. Robyn talks about the psyche of business failure of struggling businesses. Question 1: The psyche of business failure Robyn: In South Africa, we have a very negative attitude towards people whose businesses have gone into liqui...
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Entrihub chats to Robyn Hey, Founder of Robyn Hey Attorneys. Robyn talks about the costs and timelines for struggling businesses. Question 1: How do costs in liquidation work? Robyn: When you're looking at the cost of liquidation it always depends on what the asset base in the company is...
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Entrihub chats to Robyn Hey, Founder of Robyn Hey Attorneys. Robyn talks about the processes and roles struggling businesses can take on. Question 1: What does the liquidation process entail? Robyn: Liquidation can be started in two ways. The first is an application to court and the seco...
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Entrihub chats to Robyn Hey, Founder of Robyn Hey Attorneys. Robyn talks about available strategies for struggling businesses and the importance of timing. Question 1: What options are available for distressed businesses? Robyn: In the distressed business space there are three options av...
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Entrihub chats to Nici Mancini, the Founder of Purple Mosaic Design and Branding. Nici talks about personal brand versus corporate identity. Question 1: Extension of personal brand vs standalone brand. Nici: It depends on your businesses. If your business about you or is it about a service that ...
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Entrihub chats to Nici Mancini, the Founder of Purple Mosaic Design and Branding. Nici talks about freelancing as a business. Question 1: What is it like to work as a freelancer? Nici: To work as a freelancer it's a fine balance between routine and kind of overextending yourself. When you work for...
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Entrihub chats to Khanya Okumu, Enterprise and Supplier Development Specialist. Khanya talks about operating models and the external environment. Question 1: What is the operating model? Khanya: Essentially an operating model is how will your business work. It's a combination of the technical expe...
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Entrihub chats to Khanya Okumu, Enterprise and Supplier Development Specialist. Khanya talks about what due diligence entails. Question 1: What does due diligence entail? Khanya: A due diligence is basically a review of the business. For example, I have submitted an application to buy a business a...
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Entrihub chats to Lesley Mallon, Founder of Think Social Media. Lesley discusses personal vs business social media pages. Question 1: Do we need to approach our social media pages differently for our personal and business accounts? Lesley: It's the same thing with having a blog versus y...
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Entrihub chats to Lesley Mallon, Founder of Think Social Media. Lesley discusses posting online and the law. Question 1: Are there any legal considerations to posting online? Lesley: Lots of legal issues. One of them is images, people just think that they can go and google whatever they're looking...
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Entrihub chats to Tashinga Mutakwa, Founder of GreenBack Media Group. Tashinga talks about talent management as a business. Question1: What is talent management all about? Tashinga: Talent management is almost being someone's father. It's pretty much being everything that they need apart...
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Entrihub chats to Tashinga Mutakwa, Founder of GreenBack Media Group. Tashinga talks about the importance of exposure. Question 1: How do I get exposure? Tashinga: When it comes to exposure I think you want to work with celebrities. You want to work in that space because celebrities alre...
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Entrihub chats to Ashley Curran, founder of Curran Attorneys. Ashley talks about Alternative Dispute Resolutions. Question 1: What is Alternative Dispute Resolutions? Ashley: In South Africa litigation, the common fighting at art and court has really outpriced itself for many South Afric...
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Entrihub chats to Ashley Curran, founder of Curran Attorneys. Ashley talks about different legal forms for businesses. Question 1: What are the different forms of business? Ashley: You get three types of business forms namely your sole proprietorship, your partnership, and then what we call our ...
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Entrihub chats to Tanaka (General) Mutakwa, Founder of #NoDaysOff. Tanaka talks about the benefits of running a side business. See transcript from Tanaka (General) Mutakwa the chat below. Question 1: What are the benefits of running a side business? Tanaka: Doing side projects or having a...
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Entrihub chats to Tanaka (General) Mutakwa, Founder of #NoDaysOff. Tanaka defines bootstrapping and talks about the advantages and disadvantages of bootstrapping. See transcript from Tanaka (General) Mutakwa the chat below. Question 1: What is bootstrapping? Tanaka: Bootstrapping is whe...
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Entrihub chats to Nici Mancini, the Founder of Purple Mosaic Design and Branding. Nici talks about designing a logo, the colours that you should consider using, the meaning of colours and typographies. Question 1: What should we consider when choosing colours for the logo? Nici: You rea...
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Entrihub chats to Steve Reid from Centre Management of False Bay College and Centre of Entrepreneurship. Steve discusses the difference between a good idea and a great idea, and then goes onto discussing three tests to determine whether or not your idea is good or great. See transcri...
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Entrihub chats with Lesley Mallon from Think Social Media about the different social media platforms and how to find the right platform for your business. Question 1: What are the different social media platforms? Lesley: I would say the two biggest platforms are Facebook and LinkedIn. Fr...
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We continue our chat with Khanya in Part 3 of Development Finance Institutions. In this fireside chat we tackle the the following questions: Do DFI’s provide pre-investment support? Do entrepreneurs need to pay for this support? What type of funding products do DFIs offer? Do DFIs ...
