Cultivating Success: Teen Vegetable Businesses Thrive with Business in a Box in South Africa
Teenagers across South Africa are embracing the world of vegetable farming, cultivating not just crops but also essential life skills.
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01, 2024
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12, 2023
Empowering the Future: The Significance of Teen-Run Businesses in South Africa
In the vibrant tapestry of South Africa, where resilience and innovation thrive, there is a burgeoning movement that holds the promise of shaping the nation's economic landscape – teen-run businesses.
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02, 2017
Teachers and Principals – It’s Time to Do Your Part!
As teachers and principals, the youth of today and entrepreneurs of tomorrow are in your hands. You hold the key to their futures and it is up to you to do everything you possibly can in order to inspire, motivate and mentor these leaders of the future! South Africa is home to so much potential [...]
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03, 2016
The House That Jack, Jill or Thabile Built : How to Write a Business Plan
This is your how-to down-lo on the what, the where, the why and the how of your business plan before you dive in. So find a sunny spot. Grab a notebook. Have an open mind and get writing (if you need to do research on some answers, that’s cool too). Lets’ get going by answering [...]
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03, 2016
Reel Gardening for Real
Talk about growing your business and at such a young fruitful and tender age before blossoming into an adult! Enough with the word play over-kill! Meet this cool cucumber (I promise that’s the last!) - Claire Reid, an ex-St Teresas Mercy School student who invented Reel Gardening at the age of 16. Bored one holiday [...]
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03, 2016
You Can’t Just ‘Gooi’!
So how come my wonderfully creative idea now needs to be tweaked and fiddled with? I’m sure it’s gonna be a hit. I dig it, others will too, I just wanna get going. Gooi : South African slang for ‘to do something with no thought for the consequences/to go in blind’ Easy tiger! While enthusiasm [...]
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02, 2016
Why are teens perfectly poised to start a business?
Forget the cliché, all teenagers are the same. They all want to check their Facebook status all day, watch TV and snapchat their buds. Not so fast. In fact, four in 10 people between the ages of eight and 21 dream of starting their own businesses one day, according to a survey conducted by Harris [...]
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02, 2016
Flipping the Switch and Finding that Idea
So you know how we roll based on our previous blogs. We’re here for you. We have your back. We’re your business buds. You get the picture, for once in your life it’s all about YOU (and this is legit!) Before we rush ahead let's keep things real and for the record have in the [...]
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02, 2016
Meet Ed
Ed Fry isn’t necessarily your typical teenager. Sure he’s full of passion (those hormones!) with a seriously cool haircut. Where the mould shatters is the fact that he started his first business at 14 followed by a start-up web business. Make no mistake, Ed is not a nerd using the web to bust-out; he’s a [...]
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02, 2016
The 5 Life Lessons Every Teen Entrepreneur Can Learn at Home
As parents of teen entrepreneurs, many of us spending a lot of time thinking of ways to better prepare our teenagers for their future. There are several life lessons that parents can use to prepare the next generation of budding business people for success. You don’t have to be an entrepreneur yourself to teach these [...]