Marketing & Media, Advertising, Branding, Cinema, CRM, CSI, Design, Digital, Direct Marketing, Education, Events & Conferencing, Exhibitions, Magazines, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Newspapers, Online Media, OOH, PR & Communications, Printing, Production, Promotions, Publishing, Radio, Recruitment, Research, Retail, Sales, Social Media, Sponsorship, TV, Youth Marketing |
The best advice for start-ups looking to get their business off the ground Dancing with gorillas may not seem like logical advice, but it's exactly what Dr Shameen Prashantham advises you do to get your business off the ground - no actual animals involved, it's all about start-ups partnering with large companies, in particular multinational corporations, to their best advantage... Then, if you're looking for global inspiration, you're in luck because as of today, Cannes Lions 2015 officially kicks off. We've had a week of expectations and highlights of years past, now get ready, as Lions CEP Phillip Thomas says " The best is yet to come!" The Cannes Lions Pharma and Health & Wellness winners were announced on Saturday, and we also have all the finalist shortlists as soon as they're released, along with the award ceremony results and exclusive insights from Ann Nurock, attending as our first ever media correspondent on the ground in Cannes. Click through to our Cannes Special Section and don't forget to follow Ann on our Twitter account, as well as our Facebook and Instagram pages on the #bizatcannes hashtag for more! Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news".  | Today's top stories |
|  | [Sophie Baker] Biz4Afrika spoke to highly respected researcher, Dr Shameen Prashantham, about how to get your business off the ground, what advice he has for SME's in Africa and how you can 'dance with gorillas'... read more>>
| |
|
| | |
 | The Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) will feature an inaugural European African Film Festivals Award, a special prize dedicated to East African filmmakers... read more>> | | |
 | Matthew le Cordeur CAPE TOWN: A San Francisco-based tech business guru says Africa has the potential to create a new wave of global software entrepreneurs... read more>> | | |
 | The GSMA Mobile 360 Series - Africa will take place 7-9 October 2015 at the African Pride Crystal Towers Hotel & Spa in Cape Town. Registration for the 2015 event opens 6 July... read more>> | | |
 | Ibilola The Tourism Expo served as the launch platform for an exciting new app with a high utility value for tourists. It offers local establishments and tourism operators... read more>> | |  | Tawanda Musarurwa Telecel Zimbabwe has appointed Angeline Vere as its new chief executive, she becomes Telecel Zimbabwe's fourth CEO in five years... read more>> | | |
 | Peter Adamu Online media discourse stole the show at the Media Institute of Southern Africa and Law Association of Zambia public discussion with Lusaka lawyer Marshal Muchende saying online journalists ride on anonymity... read more>> | | |
 | Unilever's Foundry program may be the most comprehensive and systematic effort yet to tap into start-ups, as it has vetted 3,000 startups in marketing, research and data science in its first year... read more>> | | |  | LOS ANGELES, USA: WikiLeaks on Thursday released 276,394 new documents from the hack of Sony Pictures in what could be a further embarrassment for the Japanese media and electronics group. read more>> | |  | WASHINGTON, USA: Twitter said Friday it was testing a new way to use the messaging platform for shopping by promoting "products and places" in its feeds, as it looks to boost revenues. read more>> | | | More International | |
|  | Bernadette Kissane The building blocks for future developments in e-tailing are emerging in sub-Saharan Africa, as a growing middle class and young population create a demand for products that store-based retail simply cannot meet, due to a lack of shopping malls and gridlocked cities... read more>> | | | More Africa | |
|
| | | VAS AfricaInforma - 30 Jun 2015 to 1 Jul 2015, Johannesburg Africa ComInforma - 17 Nov 2015 to 19 Nov 2015, Cape Town | | |
| W. Edwards Deming "Quality is pride of workmanship." |
More quotes Submit a Quote | |
 | Print any item in this newsletter. |
 | Email any item in this newsletter. |
 | Comment on any item in this newsletter. |
|
|
|
|  Twitter |
|
|
