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Startup Mzansi Guide: What Is A Business Model? 30 Types of Business Models Explained | #business plan
We are hiring for StartupApp. See https://jobs.startupmzansi.app/public/career #startupjobs #work4astartup #startupmzansi
Entrepreneurship is about a THIRST FOR INNOVATION. #startupguy
Our educational system should help teach our kids to ask themselves what PROBLEMS they want to solve rather than what career/profession they might enjoy. This will definitely help them in trying to figure out what they want to BE or DO. #startupguy #startupmzansi
[Awesome Startup Offer] Join #startupmzansi as a member and get the following for FREE:
1. Company/NPO/NPC Registration (if not registered)
2. Tax Clearance Certificate(yearly)
3. BBBEE Certificate (every 12 months)
4. Business Bank Account (once-off)
5. Company Domain Name (renewed yearly)
6. Up to 25 Email Addresses
7. Website Hosting and Website for 3 years
8. Unlimited Access to our StartupApp (www.startupapp.co.za)
9. One hour mentorship every month for 12 months.
10. Help in reviewing your business plan
11. Get access to a lawyer for startup
12. Get help with your accounting and bookkeeping
13. Get help with marketing your business
14. Get exclusive access to forward-thinking events
15. Virtual Landline that rings on your cellphone
More benefits are listed on the link below.
Three yearly membership options:
1. Individuals (R450/year)
2. Startups (R900/year)
3. Network Partners (R5000/year)
Website: http://www.startupmzansi.org.za
Email: hello@startupmzansi.org.za or call/WhatsApp 011020957.
About Startup Mzansi
Startup Mzansi is where science, technology and social entrepreneurs find the help they need. It is where all kinds of people meet to spark new ideas, and where a global reputation for innovation is being earned one success story at a time. Key to these success stories are our clients—the entrepreneurs and innovators we serve—and our employees who support them.
Our goal is to lay the foundation by bringing together essential elements to create a viable ecosystem, from which startups and innovative entrepreneurs can accelerate their growth. We do this through lobbying, mentoring, networking, strategic alliances, developing and recognising excellence in youth and promoting a vibrant entrepreneurial culture.
The foundation is launching Startup Communities throughout South Africa. For more information about what we do, future plans, and how you can be involved, please see www.startupmzansi.org.za.
Did you know that Associate Members of StartupApp Pro get FREE websites and hosting for three years? In addition to all other benefits.
NB: you must be a registered member and fully paid up your membership fee of R900 per year to take advantage of this. #startupmzansi
9 main high-income services:
• copywriting
• web design
• self improvement
• fitness
• email marketing
• lead gen
• social media management
• FB/Google ads
• SEO
Here are 111 lead magnet (free guides) ideas across all of them:
#askstartupguy
"What are the best ways to generate good business Ideas?", A question I was asked.
Here is my reply
6 places to look at.
1. LOOK AT YOU PASSION!
This is the best place to find an idea and the most important thing to have as an entrepreneur. If you are passionate about something you'll likely know a lot about it. You'll be familiar with the world of that passion and what's going on, the trends, the fads, the next big thing. You may even be an expert in it. You might see opportunities – something on the horizon that most people don't see yet.
The other great thing about passion is that you're going to need it on the journey ahead. The journey will be tough and if you are working on something you don't care about you'll likely give up. If you think about it, it’s kinda crazy to start something you're not passionate about.
2. LOOK AT YOUR LIFE!
Here's a way you can look at your life to find a great entrepreneurial idea. Look for the things that annoy you the most. Is there an experience that you have, perhaps even daily where something doesn't quiet work well as it could?
If so, this could be a great entrepreneurial opportunity. Perhaps, you can see a way to improve the experience? Some kind of product, service, website or whatever that would have the experience go more smoothly, with less stress (or even have it disappear altogether). Many great entrepreneurial ideas came from people deciding to solve problems that annoyed them.
So get your detective hat on and see what you can find in your daily experience that could be a great entrepreneurial opportunity.
3. LOOK AT YOU PURPOSE!
This one is closely tied with passion. What kind of impact do you feel inspired to create in the world? Think big now. Think global. Imagine if you could do something and resources where no barrier, you were destined to succeed. What would that thing be? This thing should send shivers down your back.
Aligning with a purpose like this can have you think and act in ways that surprise you as you work to achieve an idea that is bigger than who you are. Imagine waking up each morning on a mission to grow an idea aligned with deep purpose!
4. LOOK AT OTHERS!
It's time to steal from the world around you. Look at the initiatives, projects and businesses of those that inspire you. What can you learn from them? How can you take what they've done and make it your own? In a sense there are no absolutely unique ideas. Everything has been influenced by someone else.
The great thing is that even if you try to copy someone else you'll make mistakes. Unique, personal mistakes that transform a project into something that is uniquely yours!
5. LOOK AT TECHNOLOGY!
New technology creates new possibilities. Technology literally shapes society by influencing that way we behave and interact with each other. There is a huge area of potentiality opened up by harnessing technology to innovate and improve the way we do existing things. One technology, the internet, opens up to a global audience and means we can reach a specific niche of people who may be interested in just what we have to offer.
BONUS: LOOK RADICALLY!
If we truly want to innovate then we may have to look deeper than the everyday life. If we innovate within the systems that already exist perhaps nothing will really change. We create some ripples on the surface but deep down everything continues like normal.
We may want to look at innovating the very systems that are outdated and out of touch.
How can we begin to innovate the Financial, Educational, Political, Governmental and Judicial systems that hold a tight grip on our world? We can look at anyone of these fields from a meta- perspective, from the outside, and find the seeds of a great entrepreneurial idea.
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In 2010, when I conceptualized the idea of Startup Mzansi that was awarded World Merit, it was simply bringing the essential elements in one place to help entrepreneurs start and stay started in business. I wanted to help build South Africa's startup ecosystem. I created it to find to find out "why" there isn't a well coordinated startup ecosystem in South Africa while other countries are building theirs. For the first two years, there was no revenue, later had some traction and got funded. It happened just because I knew the #trends of the industry. Now we have presence across South Africa. My idea started with "why not" in SA. Not everybody start with it.
To generate best ideas, you must do the following:
1. Study about the market. If you are a domain expert, you are one step ahead finding the best idea, but if you do not have it, you have do #research and find out about the existing trends.
2. Problem of the customers. The best ideas are born out of the needs of people/potential customers. Even your idea is amazing, nobody would buy it if it has no meaning and it will never be the best one.
3. Solving Large Problems give birth to large idea and returns huge profits (money).
Africa is a developing economy and it is at a stage where its capacity to innovate successfully determines its overall success. African businesses must be able to compete on the basis of developing new or improved products, services, models, and processes.
Unfortunately, as a continent, we are not taking full advantage of our strong economic fundamentals, well-educated workforce, and efficient markets to build higher value-added products and services. Too often, African countries fail to commercialize their good ideas into marketable products and services or capture the value from growth.
#startupguy #startupmzansi
South Africa has a relatively supportive and open startup ecosystem eager to support ambitious individuals and startups. In total we have partnerships with 500 organisations in South Africa, who provide wide range of services for startups. Check them out from graph below.
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Creative Hack/Loomehäkk is the biggest creative industry hackathon in the Baltic Sea Region. The aim of this 48-hour hackathon is to bring together people from various walks of life, including different creative fields like designers, artists, musicians, etc. They build teams to develop a prototype with a business model within 48 hours. During this event, participants will gain first-hand experience of teamwork, knowledge of business models and design, as well as the basics and practice of presenting the idea (pitching).
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Join the business idea development program designed by 8 universites and learn everything you need to know about starting your own business. The program is free of charge and does not require any previous knowledge of entrepreneurship.
STARTER runs twice a year and you can choose between STARTERtallinn and STARTER@tartu at Tartu, depending on where you live. In spring semester also sub-programm STARTERhaapsalu is active in Tallinn University Haapsalu College.
STARTER is a sub-program of the entrepreneurship education program (ettevõtlusõpe.ee).
Join the business idea development program "Starter" designed by 8 universities and learn everything you need to know about starting your own business.
The program is free of charge and does not require any previous knowledge of entrepreneurship.
Two main STARTER programs run twice a year and you can choose between STARTERtallinn (led by Tallinn University and TalTech) and STARTERtartu (Tartu University), depending on where you live. In the spring semester, sub-program STARTERhaapsalu is also active in Tallinn University Haapsalu College. In autumn semester three regional sub-programs can be chosen: STARTERpärnu, STARTERnarva, and STARTERkohtla-järve.
STARTER is a sub-program of the entrepreneurship education program (ettevõtlusõpe.ee).
Tallinn University offers several entrepreneurship programs like STARTERtallinn, Startup Passion, Loomehäkk, and others, but also specific courses like ELU.
It is the place where students can turn their ideas into business by participating in hackathons, entrepreneurship programs, competitions, mentoring events or passing the compulsory course ELU (Enhanced Learning Unlimited). ELU introduces interdisciplinary approach to learning, develops teamwork, entrepreneurial and project management skills. Extracurricular programme STARTER gives students an opportunity to develop a business model for their idea. STARTER program provides hands-on training sessions with top field experts, mentoring events, further access to accelerators and incubators and end up with a final competition (Demo Day)
The University of Tartu IdeaLab is providing pre-incubation services (workshops, consultation, collaboration with experts and scientists) for all students and University of Tartu early-stage start-up teams.
It is the place where students can turn their ideas into reality by participating in inspirational events, hackathons, workshops, meet-ups with entrepreneurs and pitching competitions. Our extra-curricular business idea development programme STARTER enables students to develop their ideas into validated business models. Hands-on workshops are supervised by entrepreneurs and integrated with mentoring sessions. Mentors are start-up founders or entrepreneurs from different business sectors.
VIVISTOPs are child-friendly, open-plan workshops and innovation studios where kids can discover, experiment, and create by themselves.
Our activities are supported by hardware and software tools for prototyping, robotics and other creative tasks developed by VIVITA team. For more information about joining us click here.
An early stage investment fund, an incubator, an accelerating network, or any other name manifesting itself by supporting startups in Africa with knowledge, capital, network and resources from China.
We fund and support African entrepreneurs and also startup teams from any country targeting African continent, who have rich industrial knowledge and mindset of tech hack.
We are sector agnostic and focus on disruptive tech-enabled business models including FinTech, social network, content platform, entertainment, mobility, e-commerce, HealthTech, EdTech among many other sectors.
We target 10% ownership in Pre-Seed to Seed tech-enabled companies based in Sub-Saharan Africa with typical check sizes of up to $400k.
We provide follow-on funding with our own investor base, who run some of the leading funds in the world. We look for post-launch founders with a great product, solving a big problem, and work with them on ways to grow and scale through business development, partnerships and financial support
Creative Hack/Loomehäkk is the biggest creative industry hackathon in the Baltic Sea Region. The aim of this 48-hour hackathon is to bring together people from various walks of life, including different creative fields like designers, artists, musicians, etc. They build teams to develop a prototype with a business model within 48 hours. During this event, participants will gain first-hand experience of teamwork, knowledge of business models and design, as well as the basics and practice of presenting the idea (pitching).
Founderly gives you access to fellow founders, industry experts, and handy resources that help you build a team and turn your seed of an idea into a successful business in your own time!
KPMG New Ventures is a catalyst for growth and innovation we facilitate global investments, provide access to international markets, and help build innovation capacity for our clients.
We bring the startup mindset to established companies by helping them test their ideas rapidly. Whether you’re providing a challenge for your people, building new products and services, or looking for a company to invest in, we have you covered. We will even give you a team to run your experiments with.
SPARK Demo centre is the business card of South Estonia. Founded and run by Tartu Science Park it brings together region's most successful manufacturers, exporters, opinion leaders, employers, brightest start-ups, business support organizations, educational and R&D institutions. In the centre visitors see how business is done not only in Tartu but in the whole southern region, meet some of the most innovative entrepreneurs and their solutions. The centre is in the heart of startup-ecosystem of Tartu and hosts annually more than 90 events focused to bring together and educate entrepreneurs.
Join the business idea development program designed by 8 universites and learn everything you need to know about starting your own business. The program is free of charge and does not require any previous knowledge of entrepreneurship.
STARTER runs twice a year and you can choose between STARTERtallinn and STARTER@tartu at Tartu, depending on where you live. In spring semester also sub-programm STARTERhaapsalu is active in Tallinn University Haapsalu College.
STARTER is a sub-program of the entrepreneurship education program (ettevõtlusõpe.ee).
Through the local chapter Startup Grind Tallinn, we contribute to the already amazing startup community in Tallinn and Estonia to make it even better.
European Space Agency Estonian business incubator (ESA BIC Estonia) inspires and works with entrepreneurs to turn space-connected business ideas into commercial start-up companies. ESA BIC is part of the European-wide network of incubators, with 20 space incubators from 18 countries, supporting the growth of 140 new companies yearly.
ESA BIC offers access to ESA expertise, knowledge and data, laboratory and testing facilities of the participating universities and hands-on business development support to the Incubation Centre teams. Plus 50 000 euros to develop and test their product or service.
Join the business idea development program "Starter" designed by 8 universities and learn everything you need to know about starting your own business.
The program is free of charge and does not require any previous knowledge of entrepreneurship.
Two main STARTER programs run twice a year and you can choose between STARTERtallinn (led by Tallinn University and TalTech) and STARTERtartu (Tartu University), depending on where you live. In the spring semester, sub-program STARTERhaapsalu is also active in Tallinn University Haapsalu College. In autumn semester three regional sub-programs can be chosen: STARTERpärnu, STARTERnarva, and STARTERkohtla-järve.
STARTER is a sub-program of the entrepreneurship education program (ettevõtlusõpe.ee).
Tallinn University offers several entrepreneurship programs like STARTERtallinn, Startup Passion, Loomehäkk, and others, but also specific courses like ELU.
It is the place where students can turn their ideas into business by participating in hackathons, entrepreneurship programs, competitions, mentoring events or passing the compulsory course ELU (Enhanced Learning Unlimited). ELU introduces interdisciplinary approach to learning, develops teamwork, entrepreneurial and project management skills. Extracurricular programme STARTER gives students an opportunity to develop a business model for their idea. STARTER program provides hands-on training sessions with top field experts, mentoring events, further access to accelerators and incubators and end up with a final competition (Demo Day)
Tartu Science Park supports the creation, development and operation of research and technology-intensive enterprises, providing infrastructure and business development services in Southern Estonia. We run pre-incubation programs that support EO (earth observation) data, collaborative economy and gaming industry ideas.
Tartu Science Park is the innovation engine of South Estonia. Our mission is to nurture start-up companies into global businesses. For more than 25 years, we have supported business innovation activities in the region by networking with universities, public and private sector both locally and globally. We are the Home of Business.
The University of Tartu IdeaLab is providing pre-incubation services (workshops, consultation, collaboration with experts and scientists) for all students and University of Tartu early-stage start-up teams.
It is the place where students can turn their ideas into reality by participating in inspirational events, hackathons, workshops, meet-ups with entrepreneurs and pitching competitions. Our extra-curricular business idea development programme STARTER enables students to develop their ideas into validated business models. Hands-on workshops are supervised by entrepreneurs and integrated with mentoring sessions. Mentors are start-up founders or entrepreneurs from different business sectors.
Draper Startup House is a new category of hostels for entrepreneurs - a space for digital nomads, freelancers, start-ups and creators to stay, work, explore and engage with like-minded people on the same journey.
Workland's mission is to provide inspiring and scalable workspaces, professional support services and a supporting community for the businesses to bloom in. Workland welcomes freelancers, start-ups, and larger cooperations - everyone who appreciates flexibility and inspiring work environment together with a supportive community.
Founderly gives you access to fellow founders, industry experts, and handy resources that help you build a team and turn your seed of an idea into a successful business in your own time!
KPMG New Ventures is a catalyst for growth and innovation we facilitate global investments, provide access to international markets, and help build innovation capacity for our clients.
We bring the startup mindset to established companies by helping them test their ideas rapidly. Whether you’re providing a challenge for your people, building new products and services, or looking for a company to invest in, we have you covered. We will even give you a team to run your experiments with.
Startup conferences are about speeches, pitches and wooing investors. The big ones, they’re the cruise ships of seafaring. Latitude59 is the lovely yacht without the crowds. Only people who really matter.
Latitude59 is small by design. We like the cosy festival vibe. But there’s more to it. Entrepreneurship and digital technology aren’t limited to startups. They matter in society and governance.
SPARK Demo centre is the business card of South Estonia. Founded and run by Tartu Science Park it brings together region's most successful manufacturers, exporters, opinion leaders, employers, brightest start-ups, business support organizations, educational and R&D institutions. In the centre visitors see how business is done not only in Tartu but in the whole southern region, meet some of the most innovative entrepreneurs and their solutions. The centre is in the heart of startup-ecosystem of Tartu and hosts annually more than 90 events focused to bring together and educate entrepreneurs.
Through the local chapter Startup Grind Tallinn, we contribute to the already amazing startup community in Tallinn and Estonia to make it even better.
sTARTUp Talks keeps that entrepreneurial energy high throughout the year by bringing industry changing topics to a wider scale and stage. We are going to speak up and gather people around topics which will make a difference in their life and work. sTARTUp Talks wants to inspire people to make their own business, come up with a new technology solution, get new knowledge and insight of the industry and find new contacts who will help them to go forward. We hope to gather up TALENT to build well-connected communities which will inspire each other to grow and develop further.
EIT Climate-KIC is a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society.
Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, we identify and support innovation that helps society mitigate and adapt to climate change. We believe that a decarbonised, sustainable economy is not only necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, but presents a wealth of opportunities for business and society.
European Space Agency Estonian business incubator (ESA BIC Estonia) inspires and works with entrepreneurs to turn space-connected business ideas into commercial start-up companies. ESA BIC is part of the European-wide network of incubators, with 20 space incubators from 18 countries, supporting the growth of 140 new companies yearly.
ESA BIC offers access to ESA expertise, knowledge and data, laboratory and testing facilities of the participating universities and hands-on business development support to the Incubation Centre teams. Plus 50 000 euros to develop and test their product or service.
Tartu Science Park supports the creation, development and operation of research and technology-intensive enterprises, providing infrastructure and business development services in Southern Estonia. We run pre-incubation programs that support EO (earth observation) data, collaborative economy and gaming industry ideas.
Tartu Science Park is the innovation engine of South Estonia. Our mission is to nurture start-up companies into global businesses. For more than 25 years, we have supported business innovation activities in the region by networking with universities, public and private sector both locally and globally. We are the Home of Business.
Draper Startup House is a new category of hostels for entrepreneurs - a space for digital nomads, freelancers, start-ups and creators to stay, work, explore and engage with like-minded people on the same journey.
Workland's mission is to provide inspiring and scalable workspaces, professional support services and a supporting community for the businesses to bloom in. Workland welcomes freelancers, start-ups, and larger cooperations - everyone who appreciates flexibility and inspiring work environment together with a supportive community.
● The lack of appeal of the profession of teaching as the average age of teachers is constantly increasing.
● Quality of school leadership (recruitment, leadership, culture and goal setting; empowering parents board).
● The youth drop-out rate after the mandatory level (9 years); not graduating from the next education level.
● The low levels of STEAM skills acquired from school.
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The funding supports companies in commissioning necessary applied
research or product development projects from public R&D institutions. The
company must be registered in Estonia. The project must be conducted either in the field of ICT, health technologies or resource efficient management.
KPMG New Ventures is a catalyst for growth and innovation we facilitate global investments, provide access to international markets, and help build innovation capacity for our clients.
We bring the startup mindset to established companies by helping them test their ideas rapidly. Whether you’re providing a challenge for your people, building new products and services, or looking for a company to invest in, we have you covered. We will even give you a team to run your experiments with.
Startup conferences are about speeches, pitches and wooing investors. The big ones, they’re the cruise ships of seafaring. Latitude59 is the lovely yacht without the crowds. Only people who really matter.
Latitude59 is small by design. We like the cosy festival vibe. But there’s more to it. Entrepreneurship and digital technology aren’t limited to startups. They matter in society and governance.
Through the local chapter Startup Grind Tallinn, we contribute to the already amazing startup community in Tallinn and Estonia to make it even better.
sTARTUp Talks keeps that entrepreneurial energy high throughout the year by bringing industry changing topics to a wider scale and stage. We are going to speak up and gather people around topics which will make a difference in their life and work. sTARTUp Talks wants to inspire people to make their own business, come up with a new technology solution, get new knowledge and insight of the industry and find new contacts who will help them to go forward. We hope to gather up TALENT to build well-connected communities which will inspire each other to grow and develop further.
Mastercard and NFT Ventures have created the Lighthouse Development Program as a way to connect with the Nordic and Baltic fintech communities.
We work with startups who are ready to scale their solutions, and are positioned to benefit from the global network of Mastercard and their banking partners. In Baltics, the program runs together with SEB Bank.
Tartu Science Park supports the creation, development and operation of research and technology-intensive enterprises, providing infrastructure and business development services in Southern Estonia. We run pre-incubation programs that support EO (earth observation) data, collaborative economy and gaming industry ideas.
Tartu Science Park is the innovation engine of South Estonia. Our mission is to nurture start-up companies into global businesses. For more than 25 years, we have supported business innovation activities in the region by networking with universities, public and private sector both locally and globally. We are the Home of Business.
Workland's mission is to provide inspiring and scalable workspaces, professional support services and a supporting community for the businesses to bloom in. Workland welcomes freelancers, start-ups, and larger cooperations - everyone who appreciates flexibility and inspiring work environment together with a supportive community.
● The lack of appeal of the profession of teaching as the average age of teachers is constantly increasing.
● Quality of school leadership (recruitment, leadership, culture and goal setting; empowering parents board).
● The youth drop-out rate after the mandatory level (9 years); not graduating from the next education level.
● The low levels of STEAM skills acquired from school.
The funding supports companies in commissioning necessary applied
research or product development projects from public R&D institutions. The
company must be registered in Estonia. The project must be conducted either in the field of ICT, health technologies or resource efficient management.
If you are one of the startup support organisations who helps to develop the startup ecosystem
If you are part of the African startup scene, wanting to enrich and grow your company
Here we have compiled an overview of the different business service providers in and around the African startup ecosystem. We hope this helps to make the navigation of the African startup scene as easy as possible for the startups already in South Africa as well as for those wishing to relocate to South Africa.
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