Are You Fit For The Future?

Are You Fit For The Future?

Future Fit? What is that? Many people mistaken the idea of being Future Fit as being driven by technology. Yes, technology plays a big part in the characteristics of being Future Fit, but there are multiple other variables to consider as part of the equation. Join our upcoming masterclass with Mike Perk who will reveal how to become fit for the future through a series of change management exercises that focus on vision setting, organisational structure, team mobility and digital leadership. Read on for more details.

Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski: The 4 Phases Of Scaling Your Startup

Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski: The 4 Phases Of Scaling Your Startup

Heavy Chef, in partnership with Nedgroup Investments and Xero, recently hosted the master of scale, all the way from Silicon Valley, Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski. Gabe has invested in over 30 Silicon Valley companies and was one of the original consultants to Uber in their early days of starting up the business. Gabe founded Modernize, which became one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley, and now heads up Upshift Partners, a Venture Capital firm that invests in high impact startups. In an exclusive masterclass for Heavy Chef community members, Gabe taught us the secrets of scaling a business/project, and it turns out most of us have been doing it wrong the whole time.

Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski: 8 Steps To A Compelling Scale Narrative

Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski: 8 Steps To A Compelling Scale Narrative

If you were able to attend the Heavy Chef ‘Scale’ Masterclass with the legendary Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski on Thursday 6 December, I’m sure you took note of how important storytelling is. Talking to Fred Roed, founder of Heavy Chef, Gabe emphasised on how delivering a compelling narrative leads to successful storytelling, which then leads to sales. Luna-Ostaseski was one of the early consultants at Uber and was instrumental in creating the ‘Uber Rush’ programme, which led to Uber’s legendary growth over a short period of time. Luna-Ostaseski shared 8 core modules/steps that result in a compelling narrative when followed attentively in sequence.

Startup Award From Hamburg Provides Access To Industry Networks And EU Market

Startup Award From Hamburg Provides Access To Industry Networks And EU Market

The FUTURE HAMBURG AWARD provides international startups with the opportunity to benefit from the city’s thriving digital scene and to expand their European business. Startups with a focus on digital business models can submit their applications until 5 January 2019. The winning teams will gain access to one of Hamburg’s most exclusive coworking spaces for up to six months.

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Event: South Africa's Top 5 Most Exciting Startups 2018 - An Evening Of Celebration

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Event: South Africa's Top 5 Most Exciting Startups 2018 - An Evening Of Celebration

2018 has been a tumultuous one, in the the entrepreneurial sector. We have seen several startups grow from concept pitches into well-respected brands in their fields and others shutter their doors. To celebrate the achievements of a long, hard slog of a year, on the 1st of November, Heavy Chef and Nedgroup Investments opened a public poll for nominations of SA’s Most Exciting Startups of 2018, and the response we received was outstanding. The event on Tuesday 4th December 2018 at Workshop17 to showcase the winners was even more outstanding.

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Africa’s Top Tech Companies Invited To Pitch To Global Industry Leaders At Mining Indaba

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Africa’s Top Tech Companies Invited To Pitch To Global Industry Leaders At Mining Indaba

Startups Unearthed Africa is an online competition aimed at raising the profile of African hardware or software companies across the global mining sector, with applications open to any business across the continent that has a prototype, product or service that can impact industry. Companies do not need to have worked on a mining project before, they just need to have exciting technology solutions that can make a difference.

Don’t Become An Entrepreneur

Don’t Become An Entrepreneur

Sarah has worked at Guardian Technologies for nearly a decade now. She started out her career at the company as an entry-level sales associate and has since worked her way up to a sales executive. She makes well over $100,000 a year, loves her team, her company and her life as a whole. When her more entrepreneurial friends poke fun at her for being a “nine-to-fiver” or “not dreaming big enough” she doesn’t mind. In fact, she finds it amusing.

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Global YouTube Stars, Mace and Morris, Teach Locals ‘How To’ In Exclusive Heavy Chef Masterclass

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Global YouTube Stars, Mace and Morris, Teach Locals ‘How To’ In Exclusive Heavy Chef Masterclass

New York-based Film Director and Youtuber, Dan Mace, is heading home to Cape Town to teach locals how to become YouTube stars at a Heavy Chef Masterclass. Mace will be joined by his manager and serial entrepreneur, Willie Morris who founded (and sold) a subscription company with digital phenomenon Gary Vaynerchuck, the social reality superstar and chairman of VaynerX.

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Revealed: South Africa's Top 5 Most Exciting Startups 2018

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Revealed: South Africa's Top 5 Most Exciting Startups 2018

The results are in. After 1,000 total entries and 141 unique entries were received for the Nedgroup Investments and Heavy Chef ‘SA’s Top 5 Most Exciting Startups’ event on the 4th December 2018. Entries were closed on Friday 23 November, and yesterday a shortlist of 12 startups were announced. Today, we reveal the final five.

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'Master Of Scale' Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski On Magic Ingredients Of Scaling Your Startup

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'Master Of Scale' Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski On Magic Ingredients Of Scaling Your Startup

On the 6th December 2018, Heavy Chef in partnership with Nedgroup Investments, is bringing Silicon Valley ‘Master of Scale’ Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski to Cape Town for an exclusive four-hour Masterclass on scaling businesses. Fred Roed, CEO of Heavy Chef spoke to Gabe in anticipation of his visit.

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Shortlist Of Twelve Finalists Announced For ‘SA’s Top 5 Most Exciting Startups’

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Shortlist Of Twelve Finalists Announced For ‘SA’s Top 5 Most Exciting Startups’

After just a few weeks of calling for nominations, close to 1,000 total entries and 141 unique entries were received for the Nedgroup Investments and Heavy Chef ‘SA’s Top 5 Most Exciting Startups’ event on the 4th December 2018. Entries were closed on Friday 23 November, and yesterday a shortlist of 12 startups were announced.

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Arthur Goldstuck: What We Learned From Largest-ever Online Retail Survey Undertaken In South Africa

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Arthur Goldstuck: What We Learned From Largest-ever Online Retail Survey Undertaken In South Africa

Arthur Goldstuck is confidently the best-known tech researcher working on the African continent. On the Heavy Chef stage, Arthur unpacked the Visa / World Wide Worx / Platinum Seed eCommerce survey results. On an evening that also featured Yuppiechef's Andrew Smith and Bradley Elliott talking about various aspects of the online retail landscape, Arthur's presentation dove headfirst into the details, gleaning key takeouts and some surprising statistics.

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Jacques Oberholzer: What It Takes To Get Your MVP Noticed

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Jacques Oberholzer: What It Takes To Get Your MVP Noticed

UI / UX design whizz Jacques Oberholzer, co-founder of boutique design firm Now Boarding, has worked with some of the most widely-used apps and websites in the world. With clients such as Property24, Standard Bank, Gyft and fintech companies across Europe, Jacques knows a thing or two about bringing a concept to reality. In this insightful talk, Jacques shares his philosophy around standing out in a crowed marketplace.

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Bradley Elliott: The Five Major Trends That Are Sweeping African eCommerce

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Bradley Elliott: The Five Major Trends That Are Sweeping African eCommerce

Bradley Elliott is the CEO of South African digital marketing agency Platinum Seed, which partnered with Visa and research firm World Wide Worx to create the largest ever Online Retail survey conducted in Africa, focusing on eCommerce. Elliott delivered an inspiring talk, originating in some of the major signals from China’s eCommerce market and then reverting to lessons from African eCommerce trends. Elliott ended his talk with five key takeouts to learn from the African example.

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Andrew Smith: Why Yuppiechef Moved From Clicks To Bricks

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Andrew Smith: Why Yuppiechef Moved From Clicks To Bricks

Andrew Smith started Yuppiechef with his dear friend Shane Dryden over a decade ago. From selling a handful of products in its first year, it is a now an internationally recognised business that is generating hundreds of millions in turnover. In this action-packed presentation in November 2018, Andrew explains why, in the face of retail doom and gloom, Yuppiechef's decision to launch its retails stores across South Africa was a no-brainer.

South African Education Organisation 'Plant The Seed' Kicks Off Crowdfunding Campaign

South African Education Organisation 'Plant The Seed' Kicks Off Crowdfunding Campaign

Mattieu Theron is an avid Heavy Chef community member and co-founder of Plant The Seed, a South African education startup that aims to revolutionise the way we teach and learn. We spoke to Mattieu this week about education, training and his crowdfunding campaign that he’s just launched.

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Cancer Dojo Founder Conn Bertish Explains Why He Is So Remarkably Hard To Kill

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Cancer Dojo Founder Conn Bertish Explains Why He Is So Remarkably Hard To Kill

Conn Bertish is our second speaker at Tuesday's Heavy Chef event, focusing on Grit, and he is remarkably hard to kill. Conn is one of the country’s top creative thinkers, having worked with some of the leading creative agencies in Africa.  In 2006, Conn was diagnosed with a form of adult malignant brain cancer, leaving him at the mercy of the world's most feared disease. Using a very creative approach - and a truckload of grit - Conn finally beat cancer in 2013 - and then started building a tool, to help others do the same. Read how he did it, here. This week, Heavy Chef CO Fred Roed spoke to him about the journey - read the interview here.

Why Does Heavy Chef Exist? [Podcast Interview]

Why Does Heavy Chef Exist? [Podcast Interview]

Recently, the founder of socially-conscious design agency Creative Seed, Lee Rael and his team launched SeedPod, a podcast seeking to unearth the impactive, socially relevant entrepreneurs in South Africa and beyond. Last week, Lee interviewed Heavy Chef founder Fred Roed to chat about failure, success, the entrepreneurial challenges in South Africa and Fred’s new venture.

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Cape Town’s Tech Ecosystem Leaders Announce ‘Cape Town Startup Week’, A Celebration Of Startups In The Western Cape

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Cape Town’s Tech Ecosystem Leaders Announce ‘Cape Town Startup Week’, A Celebration Of Startups In The Western Cape

A collaboration of tech ecosystem organisations, including Silicon Cape, Heavy Chef, Startup Grind Cape Town, Future Females, Startupbootcamp, Workshop17, Inner City Ideas Cartel and CiTi, today announced the launch of the inaugural ‘Cape Town Startup Week’, which aims to celebrate a year of entrepreneurial endeavour in the Western Cape. The week has been set for Monday 3rd December, running to Thursday 6th December 2018.

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Event Report: Online Retail State Of The Nation - Download All The Results Here

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Event Report: Online Retail State Of The Nation - Download All The Results Here

Last week Heavy Chef hosted a duo of events in Johannesburg and Cape Town, based on the state of the nation’s ‘Online Retail’ sector. On Wednesday evening, the event was held at Workshop17 in Sandton, headlined by Arthur Goldstuck, Managing Director of World Wide Worx and Brad Elliot, Founder and CEO of Platinum Seed, joined by Ally Khan Pretorius, GM of Uber Eats. On Thursday evening, in Cape Town at Workshop17, Waterfront, the final presentation was given by Andrew Smith, CEO of Yuppiechef.