Guidance for Entrepreneurs

Finding Capital

Most new businesses need initial capital to get established. This capital may be quite high [...]

The Financial Cycles Inside Your Business

Your business is a combination of different processes coming together. The better you get these [...]

Cash Flow Projections

Before starting, every new business should prepare a cash flow projection. However superficial this may [...]

Dealing with the Bank

Can’t we just all keep our money under our pillows? Then we do not have [...]

Registering a Business Name

Trading as a sole proprietor If you trade as a sole proprietor your business name [...]

The Different Types of Entities

So, you’re looking to start up something official, but which type of legal entity would [...]

Keeping Records (A.K.A. Bookkeeping)

Here are four good reasons why you should keep records: 1. Preparing tax returns for [...]

Income Tax

Wow, what a serious topic but let’s not get too technical here but rather give [...]

Value-Added Tax (VAT)

How VAT Works VAT is a consumption tax. It is only levied once a product [...]

Customer Service

Mahatma Gandhi who in a speech in South Africa in 1890 said:  “A customer is [...]

Collecting Debt

Selling your product or service on credit results in debt that are owed to you. [...]

What Stops Entrepreneurs from Building A Sustainable Business?

Franco Cronjé points out why he believes many entrepreneurs don't build sustainable businesses

Make Your Business Work | The Number One Thing

Franco Cronjé shares what he sees as the single biggest requirement to making a business [...]

Start Your Business Knowing This

Franco talks about the hard truths in hiring and working with people as an entrepreneur.

Boiling to Death?

Urban myth has it that if you put a frog in a pot filled with [...]

The Freedom to Choose

I currently have the pleasure of reading a book written by Viktor Frankl titled Man’s [...]

Me, myself, and I

One of the biggest value destructions is the inability of people to empower others and [...]

Belief is Mind Made

“We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.” Anthony de [...]

Blame Is Lame

INSIDE THE BUSINESS As a leader, nothing is more sobering than bringing to mind a [...]

To Conquer A Mountain

“The man on top of the mountain did not fall there.” Vince Lombardi It was [...]

A Win at the Entrepreneur Mag Awards!

Franco Cronjé and team Fitt.ai managed to secure: Best SME Tech Solution Provider Middle East [...]

Fear

We do not fear the unknown. We fear what we think we know about the [...]

Legal Obligations for Self-Employed Individuals

Except for some fear, which is normal, and subsequent adrenalin there are no legal obligations [...]

Preparing a Business Plan

When and Why a Business Plan is Necessary Yikes, really? A business plan? You must [...]

Earning Income Abroad

The tagline for Dubai seems to be that it is a “Tax Haven” as employees [...]

Am I Suited to Be Self-Employed?

No single factor is a clear indicator of whether you are suitable or not. Being [...]

Leader of the Pack

For the onlooker, the title of leader seems glamorous, almost red carpet-like. But for the [...]

In the Face of Adversity

Nowadays it seems that we are continuously in a state of hardship, difficulty, or misfortune. [...]

Get It Done

Travelling in a pandemic has taught me one thing – stop complaining and get it [...]

Live

Today we received the news of the death of a family friend. Funny how news [...]

Endurance

I read this quote by Christopher McDougall and it absolutely nailed it: “In Africa an [...]

Dreams

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt [...]

Interview Tips when Recruiting

An interview is a very unreliable method used for making big decisions. Usually, for an [...]

The Story of Branding

Our minds are much more inclined to follow a good story, a story with a [...]

The Giraffe Principle

Ever wondered why a giraffe has such a long neck? I suppose that if you [...]

Crypto, less Cryptic.

Digital assets, blockchain, crypto, bitcoin, ethereum, altcoins, exchanges … There is a revolution that is [...]

Team Recruitment

“You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.” ~ [...]

Director’s Guide

by Franco Cronjé

Mind Over Matter

As I sit in one of my Nomad offices, I look down at the bottle [...]

Time Management

How often do you hear people say: “I do not have time”? Have you ever [...]

Run it, in the Family.

For far too long business owners of businesses large and small, have neglected succession planning [...]

Inflection

In a sense 2020 was needed. Not because of Covid-19 and the lasting negative impact [...]

Fail

Failure has been branded by the majority as embarrassing and weak, resulting in reputational damage [...]

Comfort Zone

If it is too easy, you are in your comfort zone. A very bad place [...]

On the business, not in.

“Make yourself free to work on the business, not in the business.” Make yourself free [...]

Make the Shift

The world is ever more connected, online and cloud-based. Holding on to analogue processes and [...]