by Dianne Bayley | Feb 17, 2021 | Innovation
During the COVID-19 pandemic, property stocks in general took a significant hit, where retail and commercial office space – and even some industrial property holdings – were affected. In contrast, lower-income affordable housing – and inner-city housing in particular...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 25, 2021 | Sustainability
While 2020 will go down in history as being a year of unrivalled hardship around the globe, there were industries that picked up rapidly as lockdown forced every business owner and entrepreneur to sink or swim. “With lockdown prohibiting food and beverage outlets from...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 5, 2020 | Internet of Things
SqwidNet recently hosted the final pitch day of the 2020 IoT Entrepreneurship Programme (IoTEP). The third iteration of this programme, which kicked off in January this year, saw 30 entrepreneurs being taken on an 8-month journey of solution discovery, business, and...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
If entrepreneurship, as defined by the Young African Leaders Initiative, is the “ability and willingness to develop, organise and manage a business venture to make a profit”, techpreneurship or technopreneurship is simply the application of entrepreneurship in the...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 18, 2020 | Workplace 2020
With the global economy in tatters from Covid-19 and gig workers and small businesses among the hardest hit, it seems counterintuitive that the coworking and shared office space market – the home of giggers, entrepreneurs and start-ups for years – is on the rise,...
