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About Entrepreneur.co.za
Entrepreneur.co.za is a project
started by Brian Walsh many
years ago. He first came up with
the idea of helping
entrepreneurs in 1997 when he
returned from an extensive trip
in Europe working with some of
the leading specialists in human
development.
Instead of diving straight into
the project, Brian
procrastinated by starting and
running a digital media company
until late 2005 when he decided
it was time to follow his
passion of supporting and
developing entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneur.co.za first when
live in April 2006.
Our Primary Channels of Delivery
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Websites – Community /
Education / Resources
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Seminars – Training and
Specialized
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Networking – Power Network &
Affiliations
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Audio Programs – Virtual
Coach and Others
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Business Services
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Books / DVDs / Multimedia
Products
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Entrepreneur Centres
Achievements
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210 000 unique visitors
visited the websites 612 000
times, viewing 2.9 million
pages.
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Seminars and workshops were
attended by over 6000 paying
entrepreneurs in
Johannesburg, Cape Town,
Durban, East London and Port
Elizabeth.
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Over 30 different audio CDs
were recorded and produced,
almost 10 000 of which were
sold and distributed to more
than 3000 entrepreneurs.
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Active, registered
communities on the websites
were grown from just a few
hundred in April 2006 to
over 20 000 in April 2008.
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Brian has become a sought
after expert in the field of
entrepreneurship, appearing
a number of times on
television, radio and in the
media.
Our Purpose (What we do)
To help entrepreneurs create
true wealth, greater Freedom and
a meaningful life and to
contribute the elimination of
poverty and general empowerment
of people in Africa.
Our Mission (How we do it)
To create the largest proactive
community of entrepreneurs in
South Africa and Africa and
maximize the learning
opportunities, experience
exchange and business networking
within those communities.
Our 2020 Vision
To be the leading
entrepreneurial and small
business development
organization in Africa
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To directly contribute to
development of more than 100 000
entrepreneurs in South Africa
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To assist more than 1 million
entrepreneurs in Africa
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To have effective operations in
other global countries to ensure
global entrepreneurial growth
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To see a redistribution of the
worlds wealth into far more
peoples lives
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Currently 1% controls 93% of the
worlds wealth, we would like to
see either an increase in the
number of people controlling
that amount or a reduction in
the amount (93%) that the 1%
controls
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The bottom line is decrease the
imbalance of how wealth is
managed, create world wide
wealth and by so doing reduce
poverty, war, crime and health
issues.
How we will achieve the Vision?
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Create a community of 1 000
000 entrepreneurs in Africa
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Ensure that we are
Entrepreneurs for
Entrepreneurs
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Teach entrepreneurs to focus
on solutions and not
problems
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Partner with all like-minded
entrepreneurial support and
development
initiative/companies
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Help at least 50 000
entrepreneurs become truly
wealthy and use a percentage
of that wealth to eradicate
poverty and disease in their
communities.
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About Brian Walsh
Brian is the founder and creator of
www.entrepreneur.co.za, a project he has been
working on for over 10 years now. Having started
his first business at the age of 17, Brian has
many years' experience as an entrepreneur. After
many difficulties and failures with certain of
his businesses, he traveled overseas in 1996 to
find his purpose. He returned with the knowledge
that this was to help people help themselves,
and due to his own entrepreneurial journey,
Brian decided to focus his efforts on
entrepreneurs. It is Brian's belief that these
are individuals who bravely take on huge risk in
the quest for a better quality of life.
Unfortunately, many fall foul of the pitfalls of
entrepreneurship, and historically there has
been minimal assistance or guidance available to
entrepreneurs.
Brian's career includes running music studios
and a management company for five years in Cape
Town. He then joined a medium-sized, listed
company in the fishing industry, before starting
his career in human development and digital
media.
Brian considers himself a human development
specialist, having trained in Europe, Japan and
South Africa, and having studied with some of
the world's leading experts in this field
including the NLP and motivational specialist,
Emile Ratelband from The Netherlands.
His vision is to create a network of over 1
million entrepreneurs throughout Africa, and to
help as many of them as possible to become
wealthy. In achieving this, Brian believes that
we will see a significant reduction in poverty
and a far greater quality of life for all
people.
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