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There is a big difference between a small business & a start-up. Over the years building @MyGrowthFund I cant tell you how many entrepreneurs I have come across that don't

I can't tell you how many emails, WhatsApps, DMs etc. I get asking for advice on how to raise funding. Over 90% of the requests lack a basic understanding of

This week the restaurant industry took to the streets. I noticed some comments on social media talking about how the industry is white-owned & hires foreigners. Here is why every

We all have that one person we went to high school with that everyone thought would be the perfect boyfriend or girlfriend. You enjoyed the same jokes. Came from similar

Who owns South Africa’s informal economy? This questions seems rhetorical at face value, until you consider the nuance & the detail. Taxis, Spaza shops, funeral parlours & even shebeens &

Africa is anti-youth. We are led to believe that the youth are the future of the continent, but the substantive evidence supports a different hypothesis. I didn't celebrate Youth Day

#TaxiStrike Perspectives of a VC: The taxi industry is a great case study of how our modern economy has failed to include the legacy industries of the black majority. The

Twitter is tense today. Let me add some love and humour to your TL. Part 1 Part 2: Shela & stop asking imibuzo. Singing, “Take your love and keep it!”

Dear Pres #Ramaphosa Nobody wants people to die. Nobody is advocating recklessness. No human life is expendable. But starving people & denying citizens the right to provide for their families

Very brave press conference by Minister Tito MboweniHon. Minister using this crisis to advance policies of Structural Reforms, formalize the informal economy & build an economy that works the people

Thought: Should the worlds’ economies not sue China(fashioned like a class action suit) for the impact of this virus on the livelihoods of ALL global citizens? Economies irreparably scarred. Businesses

Reflection. My teams seems far more productive working from home. I am much MUCH productive working from home. I am looking at our P&L and thinking a call with my