Ending Things.
Dear reader, on 31 July 2021 The Hive Network Johannesburg will officially be closing. After a 6-year journey, this article serves as the last communication between our famous organization and the communities we’ve joined and touched along the way.. Six years is a long time. During our journey we’ve seen countless highs, lows, unexpected challenges and some beautiful surprises – …
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A Year and a Half
Dictionary.com did an interesting thing about “Pandemic cliches” in this article. It’s crazy how so many people I know can probably relate to being sick of 2020’s most notorious cliches. This week’s article has the interesting challenge of sounding like yet another one of those cliches. We look at what a year 2020 has been for startups and entrepreneurs, with …
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Kings of the Jingle
- Business Basics, Business Workshop, Chats at The Hive, Entrepreneurship, How To Start, Music, The Hive Network Conversations
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business basics, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, How To Start, innovation, Jingles, Music, Musician, musicproduction, Sound, SoundDesign, startup
- November 26, 2020
A Hive Member Spotlight As a creator, it’s easy to get so focused on one side of “the industry” that you lose sight of other business models or opportunities. This month’s Member Business Spotlight looks at a group of musicians who chose to operate in a rather uncommon part of the music industry. Lindani, Sipho and Mpumelelo provide ‘sound design’ …
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Vukawanele!
- blog, Business Basics, Business Workshop, Chats at The Hive, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, The Hive Network Conversations
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#BuildYourHive, #collaboration, business, Creatives, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, SA Creatives, Start Ups, Women In Entrepreneurship, Workshop
- November 2, 2020
A Hive Member Spotlight. As one of the platforms that managed to stay active throughout lockdown, we have an idea of how agonizing it would be to read another ‘Business during COVID’ article. That being said, our latest member spotlight focuses on a business that managed to survive and even grow while entire industries were sinking. “ We help our …
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Smart Business in the time of eCommerce
- Business Basics, Chats at The Hive, Entrepreneurship, How To Start, Marketing, The Hive Network Conversations
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#BuildYourHive, #collaboration, #NeverStop, business, community, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Johannesburg, Start Ups, success, Workshop
- October 22, 2020
A Hive Member Spotlight SmartSentials offers you everyday essential items and food products that promote healthy living. “There’s a lot of money in the streets.” – Lebohang Likhojane, Founder SmartSentials began as a Fresh Produce stall aside a busy road somewhere in the Free State. Using some of his savings, Lebo Likhojane established the business with a group of friends. While wrapping …
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5 Marketing Points in 5 minutes
- Business Basics, Business Workshop, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, The Hive Network Conversations
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business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Start Ups, Women In Entrepreneurship, Workshop
- October 1, 2020
Besides business tools and bottom lines, the other Baader-Meinhof themes within our content have probably been marketing and branding. With so many modern consumers having access to so much media, the modern brand is so vain that every word, every look & each nuance has to be crafted and packaged as part of the brand’s “experience”. In our ‘Marketing & …
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Are you down for your heritage?
They knelt 8 mins. & 46 secs. For George Floyd. Image from The New Yorker A heritage can tell the story about where someone comes from, or the people and environment they grew up around. One’s heritage could hold the memory of important events in their people’s history or details about their values, beliefs and temperaments. “To me heritage is …
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A love letter to accountants everywhere
- Business Basics, Business Workshop, Chats at The Hive, Entrepreneurship, The Hive Network Conversations
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business, community, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, SA Creatives, Start Ups, success, Women In Entrepreneurship, Workshop
- September 16, 2020
Sonke we love money, plus we all understand how important making money is to our sense of value and overall well being (ever heard of “net worth”?). In business especially, our finances essentially define our company’s performance over any given period. “ When it comes to our financials; we shouldn’t be putting out fires. Ideally, our books should help us …
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Running Things
- Business Basics, Business Workshop, Chats at The Hive, The Hive Network Conversations
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#collaboration, business, community, Creatives, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, SA Creatives, Start Ups
- September 1, 2020
from starting with a purpose to startup success As much as successful businesses focus on how they sound and look to the outside world, they have to make sure their internal systems are always working & moving in the right direction. We joined Sibongile’s latest Knowledge Exchange Session to hear more about some of the things it takes to run …
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Talk that Tint talk!
A Hive Creative Business Spotlight While we’re no stranger to throwing parties, you’re more likely to know The Hive for our “conversation” or “discussion” type events. As a space for creative entrepreneurs, our talks may feature anything from startup-focused topics, to promotional events and the occasional burning topics. With a number of events hosted together, one of our close collaborators …
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