The Connector http://www.theconnector.co.za Resources for business and life .. Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:34:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://istart.org/ The Leading Community for Business Plan Competitions Do you run business plan competitions? Well this link is for you: http://istart.org/ . The iStart Web site is the leading online community for business plan competitions. iStart began as studentbusiness.com – the big idea of three Harvard University students, who have since graduated and gone on to launch even bigger ideas.

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]]> http://www.theconnector.co.za/2010/07/hello-world/ Pitching your business can be sexy .. We all need to pitch our business idea multiple times. Pitching for funding, loans, clients’ etc. These guys made their pitch uber sexy and I plan to take some lessons from it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a22T27rU4b0

There are other videos on YouTube on pitching, take a look and get an idea on what [...]]]> http://www.theconnector.co.za/2010/07/pitching-your-business-can-be-sexy/ Frugality does pay, and it’s not about being cheap! I’ve read many articles on starting up your business and one of the themes was that of “frugality”. I think this really kicks in when:

the money you have invested into your business starts running out your investor wants an account of every single penny you have more than one business partner

My tips [...]]]> http://www.theconnector.co.za/2010/06/save-save-save-look-for-a-sale/