Plug your Venture Capital requirements

The thinking behind the SA VC Strategist blog is to try and establish something of a South African Venture Capital community for venture capitalists / investors to meet with potential business plans.

Personally I think it is one of the reasons that the internet is such a powerful tool. People looking for funds can throw a business idea out there and venture capitalists or investors can assess the options available to them.

With a bit of luck some deal flow can be generated if a decent venture capital community can be established. My personal opinion is that start-up / venture capital goes WAY beyond just askng for a hand out. I think the management skills needed to get the business off the ground are even more important than the money, which is why I think we'd like to focus on with this blog.

But for the mean time - COMMUNITY BUILDING IS THE NAME OF THE GAME...

So for that reason, I'm inviting South Africans who believe they have a good business idea but need some Venture / Start up capital to have a plug for business in the comment section of this blog and maybe tell our readers a bit about your idea, the kind of capital you are trying to look at and what skills you have / need and what kind of money you are looking for.

We don't want your whole business plan!

I read somewhere that if you can't sell your business in 200 words or less then your business plan isn't all that important. Maybe that should be the challenge!

Post your business ideas below and lets see what we can build up as we go along...

Maxum Incubator

The Maxum Incubator, together with University of Pretoria and IdeaBank are organising the first pre-incubation offering for young online entrepreneurs.

Read full details on Ismail's post here.