Factual vs Emotional decision making? At some point in one’s life, you have to decide if you want to work for someone or if you want to start your own business. For some, that decision comes much later in life after working for a big corporation for many years. For others, that decision is made up front. In my case…
I returned to South Africa when I stopped playing rugby in England at the end of 2005. Having just had my daughter, who was only a couple of months old, I had to make some decisions regarding work, training and family time. I had heard many stories of men and women who had worked so hard that they had started…
I love using sport analogies and applying them to business. I recently listened to a talk from Neil Powell, the Springbok 7’s Coach, and they live by the principle of trusting the process. He mentioned that when a new player came into the system, then the process was explained to them and that was all he had to focus on.…
The topic of the month is expansion. The idea of every startup is to grow and to grow as quickly as possible. The problem is that you need cash flow and to have cashflow you need business. I was very fortunate that I had a bit of hard saved money from my rugby days that literally bled for. While this…
Welcome to part 2 of my entrepreneurial journey…in case you missed it, read the first installment here. I started my business venture in my house in Bloubergstrand as I had a study on the bottom floor. I wanted to keep my overheads as low as possible. In the beginning it was slow going and I had lots of time to…
My story began as a young boy from Zambia who was fortunate enough to play professional Rugby as a career. What followed was an incredible entrepreneurial journey. When I started playing professional rugby at the age of 19, I decided that I would retire at the age of 30. My thinking at the time was that if I had not…