How do successful start-up founders and entrepreneurs find their purpose?

You may have a strong vision to build websites but enter the market when website building has been commoditized and you have to advertise like this on street poles.

Do you just fall into doing something you love or do you visualise it and plan it?

It’s got be one of the most difficult things to do. Deciding on pursuing what you want to do in life. Some people never seem to know what they want. They just carry on and accept whatever fate is handed out to them. Others, a minority, just seem to know where they are headed and even if circumstances change they redirect and move on.

The great difficulty is that there is so much happening in the world, so many options, so many different choices, that it’s difficult to know what you really want to do. That might be the case for someone who has grown up in a family with reasonable means but what about those who have fewer resources? Even if they dream big, what are the chances of them making a personal breakthrough? Continue reading “How do successful start-up founders and entrepreneurs find their purpose?”

7 things you must know before you start your new business venture

A hamburger with a rim of lettuce sitting on a...
A hamburger with a rim of lettuce sitting on a black plate against a black background with a black and red napkin on a black and white-dotted tablecloth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A person I met recently talks about starting a hamburger restaurant business. At every opportunity he wants to talk about his hamburger restaurant business idea. But unfortunately he doesn’t get around to taking even one step towards realising his dream idea. Talk won’t get you anywhere. You’ve got to have a vision and a plan.

Here are seven things that you must absolutely know before you start any new business venture whether it is based on a product or service: Continue reading “7 things you must know before you start your new business venture”

How to create value from new ideas through a business venture

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Rain camera (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

It’s raining. At last. After four months of winter in Johannesburg the rain has finally come. The August rain is the first sign of the change of season from winter to spring.

Outside in the garden the birds are twittering in the trees, dropping onto the ground to forage for food. A frog began croaking in the early hours of the morning in the rain after months of silence.

With his almost journalistic eye, Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s begins “The Canterbury Tales” with the promise of spring and its invigorating energies in nature: Continue reading “How to create value from new ideas through a business venture”