Welcome to the
Cape Town
Entrepreneurship Academy
Free online courses inspiring residents to start and grow their businesses
Need help to start your business?
Here is a list of our most useful courses for you!
Always wanted to start a business but not sure exactly what to do? In this selection of our most popular courses to help you get started you'll find all sorts of really useful and practical short online courses to help you get unstuck... from how to find your first clients to understanding how entrepreneurship really works to how to deal with money to wisdom from other entrepreneurs who share what they wish they had known before they started theirs. We even have a list with over 250 ideas to get your creative entrepreneurial juices going! All free. All for you.
Struggling to grow your business?
Here is a list of our most popular (and useful) courses for you!
Maybe you're struggling to find clients. Perhaps you're looking for ideas to get more traction. Or you're thinking about raising fundng or accessing financing options. Or perhaps you're going through challenges (disagreements with your business partners, struggling to deal with the tough times)... this is for you! And all free.
You're just looking around?
Then below are some of our most popular courses for you to try and see if you find something you like or checkout All Courses at the top of this page!
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Understanding the entrepreneurial lifecycle
Course4.8 average rating (64 reviews)Inspired by the book called "Corporate Lifecycle" we applied that knowledge to the entrepreneurial lifecycle and mapped it against our experience supporting startups and small businesses in over 83 countries and found some really interesting insights
Free
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Find clients & grow your business
Course4.9 average rating (34 reviews)For professionals, entrepreneurs, startups and those who have lost their jobs who struggle to get commercial traction.
Free
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How to Start a Farming Business
Course4.8 average rating (94 reviews)This is a practical beginners course for anyone curious about starting their own farm & becoming an agri-preneuer.
Free
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How to find investors: a reality check
CourseA powerfully honest course to help you understand what investors are looking for, the probabilities around getting funded and help you think differently around how to grow your business if you looking for funding is taking too long.
Free
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For existing entrepreneurs: the 14 Day Entrepreneurship Challenge
Course4.7 average rating (84 reviews)This is a seemingly easy to do 14 days course comprised of daily thought challenges designed to help you remember why you started your entrepreneurial journey, help you find your balance and give you a sense of direction.
Free
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Understanding Money and how to handle it: a course for entrepreneurs
CourseA powerful and easy to follow course for all aspiring and current entrepreneurs who would like to have a better - and simpler - understanding of how money works and avoid the mistakes that so many of us make.
Free
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Entrepreneurship lessons from a venture capitalist
Course5.0 average rating (3 reviews)This is a course to help all of you who are seeking investors to understand what investors are looking for and learn about what works and what doesn't from their experienced perspective around starting and growing your business.
Free
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How to deal with setbacks
Course4.2 average rating (9 reviews)How to deal with difficult times. A course for every person on how to handle the inevitable setbacks that you will encounter in your entrepreneurial journey.
Free
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How to discover your personal value proposition
Course4.4 average rating (9 reviews)This is a course to help you understand what you are good at and how to figure out your value proposition to the world.
Free
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How to figure out if you have a good business idea
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Perspectives from experienced entrepreneurs and mentors on how to figure out if you have a good business idea.
Free
What to read what others say instead?
Here's a small selection of the thousands of people whose life we touch every month.
Top Class eye and mind opener 10 out of 10
Peter-Hain Kazapua
Amazing Experience
Luisa Allegro
Incredible how much information was packed in such a short course. I feel encouraged and feel ready for more adventures.
Incredible how much information was packed in such a short course. I feel encouraged and feel ready for more adventures.
Read LessBrilliant!!!
Gift Dlamini
Would recommend to everyone in a journey to start a business!
Would recommend to everyone in a journey to start a business!
Read LessEffective overview and basic steps to follow to success
Johann Venter
Thank you for sharing your experience...
Thank you for sharing your experience...
Read LessPerfect and practical
Lunati Kona
Great exercises
Great exercises
Read LessIt was amazing
Sthandiwe Msomi
I've learn so much in this 14 day challenge, the things that I didn't nkow Thank u
I've learn so much in this 14 day challenge, the things that I didn't nkow Thank u
Read LessExceptional Content
Lucas Kgosana
I am happy and learned a lot from the course, and mostly it is an eye opener on a lot of thing I was not really putting into consideration . It helped a lot ...
Read MoreI am happy and learned a lot from the course, and mostly it is an eye opener on a lot of thing I was not really putting into consideration . It helped a lot and I am grateful
Read LessPractical and insightful
Zikisani Titi
The kind if advice every startup needs - practical and insightful
The kind if advice every startup needs - practical and insightful
Read LessThe title is exactly about what my business needed. Hence...
Joyce Makhema
The wealth of tools that one can use to find clients is appreciated. Some of the tools I under-used. Thanks for the tips and hints on how to go about finding...
Read MoreThe wealth of tools that one can use to find clients is appreciated. Some of the tools I under-used. Thanks for the tips and hints on how to go about finding clients using the tools.
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Connecting you with business partners, funders, support organisations or City departments
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Offering support programmes and advisory services
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Simplifying communication between the City, other SMMEs and entrepreneurs; and
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Providing you with access to new markets
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