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Calling all entreprenuers and designers!
Entrepreneurship has always been around me.
My father and grandfather started their own engineering firm out of a cow shed, and I can remember as a young child visiting the mines and the factory and helping with counting the cents for the wages.
My mother and grandmother started a home industries shop, and I remember helping to deliver the thirty chocolate cakes and dozens of sausage rolls every day.
My work history has involved quite a few start ups, and ground-breaking projects which were the first of their kind.
So it's not much of a surprise that I find entrepreneurship so fascinating, and ended up starting my own business seven years ago. Then the one matchstick project followed, with the aim of not only helping my own business with some office space, but also with the ultimate and more important goal of helping other entrepreneurs to get their businesses off the ground, by offering some of the office space to them.
This journey has led me to meet many more amazing entrepreneurs. Two of those entrepreneurs who I traded with for 375 T-shirts are Eran Eyal and Eric Edelstein of Springleap.com, who provide a platform for up and coming designers. And my story also reached Allon Raiz, an entrepreneur who runs Africa's only unfunded for-profit business prosperator, touching many other entrepreneurs lives by helping them develop and grow their businesses (including my own).
And they are giving the winning designer R10 000 (US$1250) in cash, an inspiration pack and worldwide exposure. Wow!
So I'm calling all designers and entrepreneurs: here's an opportunity to have some fun! All you need to do is express your understanding of this phenomenon called entrepreneurship in a black and white design, and submit it by the 8th December 2010, and you could win!
For all the details and rules and dates and suggestions, check out the "I am an entrepreneur" competition page.
Have fun, and let me know which design is yours, I'd love to check it out and possibly vote for it to win!
My father and grandfather started their own engineering firm out of a cow shed, and I can remember as a young child visiting the mines and the factory and helping with counting the cents for the wages.
My mother and grandmother started a home industries shop, and I remember helping to deliver the thirty chocolate cakes and dozens of sausage rolls every day.
My work history has involved quite a few start ups, and ground-breaking projects which were the first of their kind.
So it's not much of a surprise that I find entrepreneurship so fascinating, and ended up starting my own business seven years ago. Then the one matchstick project followed, with the aim of not only helping my own business with some office space, but also with the ultimate and more important goal of helping other entrepreneurs to get their businesses off the ground, by offering some of the office space to them.
This journey has led me to meet many more amazing entrepreneurs. Two of those entrepreneurs who I traded with for 375 T-shirts are Eran Eyal and Eric Edelstein of Springleap.com, who provide a platform for up and coming designers. And my story also reached Allon Raiz, an entrepreneur who runs Africa's only unfunded for-profit business prosperator, touching many other entrepreneurs lives by helping them develop and grow their businesses (including my own).
"Entrepreneurship is not just about business. It's about the birthing of an idea, the tension between fear and hope, and the ability to live in the space between what could be and what is." – Allon Raiz
And they are giving the winning designer R10 000 (US$1250) in cash, an inspiration pack and worldwide exposure. Wow!
So I'm calling all designers and entrepreneurs: here's an opportunity to have some fun! All you need to do is express your understanding of this phenomenon called entrepreneurship in a black and white design, and submit it by the 8th December 2010, and you could win!
For all the details and rules and dates and suggestions, check out the "I am an entrepreneur" competition page.
Have fun, and let me know which design is yours, I'd love to check it out and possibly vote for it to win!
Coaching in exchange for a T-shirt
Shamillah Wilson attended the Cape Town Premiere of the onematchstick Movie, and she has made a very generous offer as a three-way Trade with me.
She's offered four coaching sessions for one T-shirt!
Shamillah is a qualified business coach based in Cape Town and is quite an entrepreneur herself. She has more than ten years experience in leadership development, management and human development. She has worked for the educational sector (UCT), government, and for corporates nationally and internationally. You can read more about her coaching business here, to work out if you'd like to be coached by her.
She's offered four sessions, as she has found from her experience that clients get the best results from a couple of sessions.
If you're not sure if you'd like to be coached, consider how Shamillah describes her coaching and it's benefits:
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a process where the client – an individual or and organisation – identifies a goal or vision and is supported with tools and shifts in awareness that inspires commitment and action necessary to attain the goal.
What are the benefits?
A client can enhance the quality of life by:
You'll get to change your life,
Shamillah will get a T-shirt,
And I’ll get another T-shirt traded!
It's a win-win-win!
She's offered four coaching sessions for one T-shirt!
Shamillah is a qualified business coach based in Cape Town and is quite an entrepreneur herself. She has more than ten years experience in leadership development, management and human development. She has worked for the educational sector (UCT), government, and for corporates nationally and internationally. You can read more about her coaching business here, to work out if you'd like to be coached by her.
She's offered four sessions, as she has found from her experience that clients get the best results from a couple of sessions.
If you're not sure if you'd like to be coached, consider how Shamillah describes her coaching and it's benefits:
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a process where the client – an individual or and organisation – identifies a goal or vision and is supported with tools and shifts in awareness that inspires commitment and action necessary to attain the goal.
What are the benefits?
A client can enhance the quality of life by:
- Experiencing greater focus, clarity and purpose
- Improving performance in all areas of life, business and career
- Increasing power and confidence
- Eliminating stress and worry
- Provoking breakthroughs
- Achieving goals one could never reach alone
- Being more organized and prioritising
- Taking control of one's destiny
- by assessment
- by goal setting
- by coaching
- by impact assessment
- Executive Coaching, in which executive are supported through powerful personal and professional development, learning and performance.
- Entrepreneur Coaching, whereby entrepreneurs are supported to become effective and reach greater levels of achievement and power in establishing their businesses. Entrepreneurs are also offered business support through strategic business plans.
- Life Coaching makes individuals become self-aware and empowered in order to make positive changes in their lives through achieving greater balance establishing powerful relationships.
You'll get to change your life,
Shamillah will get a T-shirt,
And I’ll get another T-shirt traded!
It's a win-win-win!
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