CPUT Entrepreneur

 Mark Dzoro, Editorial Committee member  On the 19 th of October 2011 our department held the first meeting with the senior students. It came at a time when the 3 rd year students were coming back from their work posts which they had been deployed at. The purpose of the meeting was to show appreciation to the 2 nd year class who put up excellent work during the University’s OPEN DAY. One of the nicest things about studying is the opportunity of expressing your theoretical knowledge and background to the actual and real world. In-service learning is a fundamental part of our Entrepreneurship curriculum as it provides the student platform to work in any organisation of choice.   This is however difficult in terms of securing a placement taking into consideration that the university has a department mainly meant for assisting students to get a placement. The third year students gave their word of advice and mainly stressed six important points which were;         i.         Apply

Dr Richard Ruben Mark Dzoro writes: Ruben Richards seems an all round person. This successful entrepreneur emphasised the significance of entrepreneurship and how the youth of today can engage as well as enhance their business ideas in order to be successful. Dr Ruben Richards defines entrepreneurship as the ability to “monetise creativity”. He joked, albeit with a hint of serious, that entrepreneurship could be visualised as “having sex with a porcupine.” This signifies that entrepreneurship can be both exciting and challenging (imagine wading through the spines and quills, with all the pricks). The prickly part of the entrepreneurial life is that it presents many challenges and is highly beneficial for South Africa growth. Thus entrepreneurs are encouraged to tread the triple bottom entrepreneurship journey with caution. The triple bottom simply means social, economic, and political factors in which the business and entrepreneur operate in. In terms of economic factors that are af

The 2 nd International Business Management Conference took place at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Westville Campus, Durban. The two-day conference (28 th & 29 th September, 2011) attracted a large number of academics from around the world. Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) sent four academics who presented papers that were well received. CPUT academics at the conference included Dr Stan Cronje (Public Management), Barry Odendaal (HRM), Peter Veeran (Public Management), and your very own Chux Gervase Iwu.   Former HoD, Prof Wilfred Ukpere was also in attendance. My paper dealt with the issue of short supply of and access to both prescribed and recommended textbooks. Short supply refers to the library not acquiring enough support texts, while access refers to the lack of funds by the student to own a prescribed or recommended textbook. My   study indicated that given the challenges of short supply of and access to tools of study, universities and colleges will fore

Steve Jobs A pioneer, innovator, entrepreneur and the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes ( http://news.yahoo.com ) has bid farewell to the world.   Barely 2 months after delivering the news that sent shockwaves around the world, (announcing that he was stepping down as Apple’s CEO), even sadder news of his passing hit the globe. Mr. Jobs was born in 1955 and went on to co-found the Apple Computer in 1976 with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak (http://news.yahoo.com) . According to http://news.yahoo.com this brilliant, passionate and energetic entrepreneur became a multimillionaire at the age of 25 and went on to appear on the cover of Time magazine at 26. Although adored by many, Mr. Jobs had an egotistic as well as a rebellious personality that would often get him into trouble.   His rebellious nature saw him leave Apple in 1985 ( http://www.news24.com/ ) and later returned in 1996. During his time out of Apple Mr. Jobs founded NeXT computers and b