A lovely surprise happened: the one matchstick story made the front page of MyBroadband today 🙂 There is a lovely write-up (thank you Jan Vermeulen) of my background, my introduction to entrepreneurship through my role in what is now called The Bobshop, and the wonderful looooong journey of turning that one matchstick into office space that Maurice is making the most of as I type! Find the full article here. Little side note: Long, long ago, I was interviewed by…
Maurice Kande is our onematchstick entrepreneur, who is busy making good use of his office space. He shared his story on the Risk & Rise podcast, here below is the videocast (or find the audio on your favourite podcast app or here on Risk & Rise). Contact Details: If you’d like to cheer Maurice on, here are his contact details:
Announcement: It is with great pleasure that I can introduce you to Maurice Kande, the startup entrepreneur who has been chosen to get the onematchstick office space! A BIG congratulations, and a very warm welcome to Maurice! We hope he is able to make the most of his time in the onematchstick office, and his whole IT Support package from Cognosys, to take his consulting business to the next level. I managed to record the phone conversation when I phoned Maurice…
Just recently, I received this offer of additional support of some great software solutions, for the onematchstick entrepreneur. Applications closed on the 3rd May, and next week I will be announcing who is getting the onematchstick office space, and thus also this exciting addition. I am excited to announce that the person who now has the onematchstick office, has also been awarded, thanks to the generosity of the team at Cognosys, a whole IT support package to complement their startup’s…
I had such fun in the new green screen studio’s of The Real Network today, where I was a guest on The Gareth Cliff Show and shared about our search for the onematchstick startup. Here’s the podcast: Find the audio podcast here. And here is what the studio looks like (and you can hear about the prank I pulled here):
Search for the entrepreneur to give the office space to: NOTE – we have changed the process (from this) to find the onematchstick startup entrepreneur who will get the 6 months of rent-free office space. Here is the new way forward: This is not just any office! This opportunity comes with having access to a community of fellow entrepreneurs, to keep you company along the lonely road of being a startup. And there will be endless networking opportunities, and you…
Have I failed? In the search for the onematchstick startup, the entrepreneur who will get 6 months rent free office space, I feel like I have failed in some way. The search didn’t meet my expectations… Phase One closed yesterday (5 April), with only one application, where I expected many, many more! So many more that we came up with this 3-phase approach to find the one startup who would get the onematchstick office space. I am delighted that we…
Here is a link to the great article that was published in IOL News about the search for the onematchstick startup: Thanks Vernon Pillay!
So with our search for the onematchstick startup entrepreneur, here are the applications we have received so far. (If you applied and are not here, get in touch with Telana!) Applications close 3 May 2024! @mehlo_makhulu #riskandrise #onematchstick ♬ original sound – Ayanda Theko199 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Maurice Kande (@themauricekande)
We reached the end goal of offices officially on 9th January 2024. 6421 days after I started with one single matchstick. And then all the items were delivered by 14th February 2024. Now we are on the search to find the start-up entrepreneur who will get to use the office space. To back track a bit:- my strategy was to work backwards from the office space, to trade back down to my 12th trade, (which was the 3 boxes of…
