Being an early adopter is something many entrepreneurs pride themselves on. Whether it’s the latest app or the best in health, meditation or lifestyle, entrepreneurs like to be in the know and at the forefront of tech and trends alike. You’ve heard the person who said they were using Facebook long before the rest of us got a profile and seen the thousands who stand in line for the newest iPhone. So if you’re into being on the cutting edge of early adoption, you’ll want to know and follow these four up-and-coming young entrepreneurs. Age has nothing to do with performance and these men and women have shown they have the grit, guts and willpower to make a very real impact in their respective industries.
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As a habitual one-hour-a-day reader, I become excited when I find a book that catches my attention. Too many books offer the same old regurgitated advice leaving me to flip to the cover wondering if this is a title I've already read in the past. Here are four books offering a fresh take on achieving entrepreneurial greatness. They've penetrated the entrepreneurial ranks through word-of-mouth, great content and raving fans. As evidence of their appeal, the titles have collectively drawn more than 1,100 five-star Amazon reviews and the authors have 42,000 followers on Twitter as well as thousands of "friends," "followers" and "likes" on their various Facebook pages.
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Mobile now influences 19 percent of all retail sales. This creates both a huge risk and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity if marketers can get their mobile strategy right. As we head toward 2015, we’re seeing more brands than ever adopt a “mobile-first” strategy. Marketers who want to share screen time with their customers had better make sure their content contains actual substance, or they will verge upon a difficult and dangerous gray area between a great message and “spammy” one.
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Facebook will on September 18 host its first Creative ShopHackathon in Africa, as attention turns to Africa’s creative sector. The workshop, which will hold as part of Loeries Creative Week™ Cape Town, is designed specifically for young creative designers with one to two years of experience.
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JSE-listed platinum miner, Impala Platinum, had started an evaluation of its strategy after struggling to ramp up production following a five-month strike at its Rustenburg operations. The world’s second biggest platinum miner said it would have to embark on an intensive cost management programme in the next couple of months as it had to pay out salary hikes of up to 20 percent.
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Although the growth of South Africa’s e-commerce industry has been tremendous, the industry still fails to draw in much of the country’s booming internet community with fears over security and lack of adequate know-how the main banes. Two researches depict E-commerce’s struggle to catch up with internet growth in South Africa. While MasterCard’s 2013 Online Shopping Behaviour Study show that there was a 9.5 percent growth in the number of online shoppers -from 2.1 million in 2012 to 2.3 million in 2013, Digital Media and Marketing Association posit that South African online population grew by 17% from 12 million to 14 million over the same period.
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State-owned power company Electricidade de Moçambique (EdM) says it will invest $250 million to upgrade its power generation plants in Mozambique adding that most its equipment are now very old. “The grid is severely deteriorated and is over 40 years old in the south of the country and over 50 years old in the central region and so we have to spend money on a new one,” said EdM chairman Augusto Fernando.
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Government-held oil company, Sonangol has been given a greenlight by the Angolan government for oil exploration rights in onshore areas of theLower Congo and Kwanza basins. “The concession included prospecting, exploration, development and production of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in the KON2, KON4, KON11 and KON12 blocks and allows the national concessionaire to carry out a preliminary assessment of existing resources and determine their potential,”said State Secretary for oil, Aníbal Silva. Oil is the backbone of the Angola’s economy. This sector makes up over
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Iran has postponed by three months a conference to offer multinationals the rights to develop oil deposits, giving time for sanctions on the country’s oil sector to be lifted, a senior official said on Monday. “We want to provide for all the companies to participate and we know they will have difficulties before Nov. 24,” Mehdi Hosseini, the head of the Oil Contracts Revision Committee, told Reuters by telephone on Monday. The London conference, previously scheduled for Nov. 3, will take place in late February 2015.
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Dubai-based airline flydubai announced that it will begin services to three new destinations in East Africa from September. The budget airline, which currently flies to nine destinations in Africa, said that it will begin services to Bujumbura in Burundi, Entebbe in Uganda and Kigali in Rwanda. The latest route additions will bring the total number of destinations in the carrier’s network to 80, the statement said.
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