by Abu Cassim & Lesley Donna Williams
In mid-March HUB Johannesburg hosted its first HUB Club. HUB Clubs bring people together who share a concern or passion for something. We take confidence that everyone can be part of creating…
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| August 1, 2012
How to write a great pitch for your crowdfunding campaign
When people visit your campaign page, they need to be able to find out who you are, what you do and how they can get involved. Most importantly, they need to find the details of the project: what it is,…
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| July 25, 2012
Five quick tips on structuring rewards when crowdfunding
When creating a crowdfunding campaign one of your focus areas should be around what rewards you want to create. Rewards are a fantastic incentive for people to contribute. Purchaising a certain reward and receiving it gives the contributors the tangible…
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| July 17, 2012
How to Crowdfund in SA?
In recent years crowdfunding has proved to be an enormously successful non-traditional method for raising funds (click here for our last blog post explaining crowdfunding). There are many examples of successful campaigns raising big amounts for numerous projects and…
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| July 4, 2012
What is Crowdfunding?
Crowdfunding is not a new concept. Essentially, it refers to getting money from a group of people for a project, business or cause. As examples of successful crowdfunding campaigns become increasingly more common, many social entrepreneurs are beginning to consider…
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| July 3, 2012
To be truly Social you need to be Ecological as well
Interview with Glenda Raven, Senior Manager at the Environmental Leadership Programme of WWF South Africa
When it comes to creating impact in society one more and more oftens hears the term Social Entrepreneurship entering the conversations. But what does it…
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| April 17, 2012
Hub Global Strategy Gathering
On 29th March to 1st April 55 founders form 29 Hubs and Hub Initiatives across the world descended on Hub San Francisco for the annual Strategy Gathering. It was brilliant to see so many people from around the world uniting…
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| April 5, 2012
Culture Shift
A number of adjectives strung together still won’t do justice to the weekend that many experienced at the Hub Johannesburg recently! Manic, intense, powerful, stimulating, melting-pot, unique, consuming… 40 participants invested a weekend of their lives into building digital solutions…
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| February 29, 2012
Kaleidoscope | Connecting Business to Arts
Janet du Preez of Tools of Greatness is the epitomy of an initiator! After she had penciled 300 new ideas she decided to focus her energies on making these ideas happen. Today (5 April), 5 years since she captured this…