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Hosted by SME South Africa · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes
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The SME Podcast is a curated collection of interviews with industry experts and entrepreneurs. The trusted advice to help start, manage and grow your business is now available in audio.
SME South Africa hosts SME Podcast, a business show with 11 episodes published.
South African SMEs have one common concern: attracting funding. Yet, the biggest problem they face isn’t that capital isn’t available; it’s being a business that funders want to fund. What businesses need is to be visibl
This episode focuses on the critical shift South African SMEs must make to attract investment, moving from the misconception that capital is scarce to understanding that the real challenge is becoming "investment-ready."
Funding is not the hardest part of running a business. Controversial, yes. But Thabang Hleza makes a great point. Where businesses get stuck with access to funding, it’s because of the multitude of other business issues
This week’s episode featured Zibusiso Mkhwanazi, Founder of Avatar Agency group. During the podcast we took a deep dive into his compelling origin story. What makes Zibusiso’s story so compelling is not just that he star
This episode dives into growth readiness and accessing funding. We take a closer look at the vital role that funding intermediaries play in closing the funding gap, as they help businesses become funding-ready and improv
In this episode, we will talk to Mapule Pathela about why being a high-growth business is no longer optional but a survival strategy. She unpacks what entrepreneurs miss when they fail to see that growth-mindedness leads
In this episode of the SME South Africa Podcast, Omega speaks to Ruan Fourie, CEO of AAA Consortium, about purchase order funding and what makes an SME fundable after winning a tender. Ruan unpacks why winning a purchase
This episode of the SME South Africa Podcast dives into mezzanine debt, flexible finance, and what makes established growth-stage businesses fundable. The conversation unpacks why many medium-sized businesses fall into t
This episode is built around one big idea: that the way South Africa funds its SMEs is broken — and fixable. We want our audience to walk away understanding what that fix looks like, why it has taken this long, and what
This episode focuses on the critical need for entrepreneurial education to bridge South Africa’s R350 billion SME funding gap. Guest Jameel Khan explains the "missing middle"—businesses earning R1 million to R50 million
Lerato Sebata has spent her career sitting at a table most people don't even know exists — the one where procurement policy, business strategy and real-world implementation actually collide. As founder and CEO of ROI Gro
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SME Podcast is hosted by SME South Africa. The show is categorised under business and has published 11 episodes.
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