Rival Pioneers

Welcome to Rival Pioneers - a South African focused initiative aimed at the development of entrepreneurial talent and helping

the right ideas become long-term sustainable businesses.

The South African government has long held the belief that small to medium sized enterprise would be the only way to tackle rising unemployment in the country - they just forgot a critical aspect - holding the hand of the budding entrepreneur.

Rival Pioneers aims to try and address this issue by providing development resources for entrepreneurs including

- Venture and micro finance
- Mentoring and partnerships including communication, sales, strategy
- Sustainability development
- Strategy development and execution
- SME incubation
- Interactive workshops and forums to develop entrepreneurial talent

Why join the Pioneers network?
Running - or even contemplating running your small business - is scary at the best of times. You're under-resourced and normally stretched in a dozen different directions.

By joining an initiative such as Pioneers, you get to put your small business idea out there and interact with other aspirant entrepreneurs... heck if your idea is solid enough you might even find some funders willing to back you and a kick-ass team to give you the best chance of getting your idea off the ground.

Perhaps the idea of starting a business is a step too far but you want to be able to interact with people who have been there and done that - then here is the place to do it.

About Rival
The Pioneers initiative has been established to operate alongside the Rival Industrial company which was established in 2005. The company has experience in a number of fields including food, pharmaceutical, education, E-learning, and corporate wellness.

Titles published by the business include:

ManufacturingHub.co.za - www.manufacturinghb.co.za - News for the SA Food, Pharmaceutical, Chemical Manufacturing industries
RemSpecED - www.remspeced.co.za - Remedial & Special Education in South Africa
Bunbublog.com - Free blogging platform for South African bloggers
Ferronews.com - Ferrous metals industry news

What are you waiting for?
Join the Facebook group now and follow our Twitter feed at - http://twitter.com/rivalpioneers - and we will update you as the project develops

If you want to get involved on a more hands-on level or you have a business plan to submit for consideration you can send it to me at marc@rival.co.za

Look forward to hearing