Allow Your Business To Grow By Finding Your Flow
Gallup Management Journal recently interviewed Alex Pentland, professor of media, arts, and sciences at MIT and the author of Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World. One of the issues discussed was why VCs rather invest in business where they have a personal connection and which they can regularly visit. Here is an expert of [...]
The joy of working in the entrepreneurial space can be endless, as early stage investor Permjot Valia wrote in his recent blog after attending Seedcamp. The objective of Seedcamp is to connect “next generation entrepreneurs” with mentors from “a top-tier network of company builders” in Europe. “I am feeling very happy right now, despite having [...]
The Entrepreneurial Happiness Index™ is based on a quarterly survey of entrepreneurs, business owners and self-employed professionals from across the world. To take part go to www.howhappy.info The EHI Report for the last quarter of 2010 shows that entrepreneurs are not obsessed with money, although they are firmly aware of the need to keep the [...]
I’m not sure if it is just my selection of reading material, but recently I noticed that just about every entrepreneurial blog post or business book I read includes reference to the benefits to clarify the purpose of your business and how you can get your team to perform better by showing how their work [...]
What’s up with the interest in entrepreneurial growth in Cape Town? Why is it that twice the number of recent new comers to the Venture Capital community chooses Cape Town as the location to set-up head office? The recently published report on the state of the Venture Capital in South Africa attributes two factors to [...]
Do you see yourself as truly entrepreneurial? Do you lead your teams, manage your business processes and master yourself like an entrepreneur? Use Christoff Oosthuysen’s quick test to see how you measure up. It is called the 3 x 3 of True Entrepreneurship and it is based on the understanding that true entrepreneurs operate on [...]
Cape Town needs 30 new high growth entrepreneurs each year to reach the tipping point towards an entrepreneurial revolution, says Daniel Isenberg, Professor of Management Practice at Babson College where he has established the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project. He spoke at the Cape Town Entrepreneurship Week last week about his findings, as described in his [...]
Here is another BizTip for entrepreneurs who want to take their future into their own hands by making most of the upcoming holiday period: “Get Ready For The Silly Season”. Christoff Oosthuysen is the resident business coach on Randall Abrahams’ weekly radio show, Point of View. Here is another of the weekly BizTips… BizTip – [...]
Here is another BizTip for entrepreneurs who attend networking events or meet prospects every day, and use a business card to introduce themselves. The tip is: “Make your business card unforgettable”. Christoff Oosthuysen is the resident business coach on Randall Abrahams’ weekly radio show, Point of View. Here is another of the weekly BizTips… When [...]
Here is another BizTip for entrepreneurs who want to learn from what their customers have to say, but who have some customers who keep demanding more attention than the value of doing business with them: “Your customer is NOT always right”. Christoff Oosthuysen is the resident business coach on Randall Abrahams’ weekly radio show, Point [...]
"After attending Christoff Oosthuysen's webinar where he showed us how to use the Flow Probability Square, we got so much more clarity on what our sweat spot is. We found a balance between the opportunities we pursue and our internal capacity. As a result our conversion rate tripled!"
