Let’s Talk: Entrepreneurship|| Paul Cook & Sakhile Maseko|| Full Interview

Описание: Season 1: Episode 2 of Let’s Talk is here!🚨

Today our guests are high impact entrepreneurs who are innovative and are inspiring a wave of online African entrepreneurs.

Guest 1: Sakhile Maseko is the Founder of Aumax, an online luxury retail business that has completely revolutionised the online shopping space. His clients are able to order their product, have the product delivered to them immediately with a range of other products to try on before making a final purchase. In his first year of university he had to drop out because he couldn’t fund his studies. That’s when Aumax became an entrepreneurial opportunity.

Guest 2: Paul Cook
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Before founding Silvertree Holdings, Paul worked at McKinsey & Company, where he specialised in African growth strategy, and co-authored the McKinsey Global Institute report ‘Africa at work: Job creation and inclusive growth’. He brings deep understanding of opportunities on the continent and operational blockages to realising them. Before McKinsey, Paul co-founded Thornhill Associates, an online leadership development and feedback provider. He holds a PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology.


Stand a chance to win! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Entrepreneur support program
Many beginning entrepreneurs face a challenge when starting their business: a lack of start up investment to execute their business idea to begin building a business and the lack of guidance from experienced entrepreneurs for them to reach their milestone.

The Entrepreneur support program addresses these challenges with:
Start up grant, of R5 000 to R10 000 to help an underprivileged entrepreneur launch their business idea
Weekly consultations with Sakhile Maseko on your plans and challenges you face and discussing potential solutions.
1 hour consultation South Africa’s Leading Venture Capitalist Paul Cook, MD at Silvertree holdings and CEO at faithful to nature to potentially unblock the challenges you face on reaching your business goals



Requirements:
Be in an underprivileged position where its is difficult for you to access resources to convert your good idea into a business.
You must have taken significant first steps to the best of your ability to reach your business goals.
Preferably an online business
Apply:
Email a 4 page max, pitch to [email protected]


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