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SME's - a solution for Africa

SME's - a solution for Africa

I wrote previously on the difference between entrepreneurs and small business managers who own their own business or franchise. The franchisor in a successful franchise concept runs the marketing and strategy, and thereby keeps it on track. As a consequence banks are always prepared to fund these enterprises. This is critically important as one of the largest contributory factors to SME failure is insufficient working capital. Yes, they are terribly undercapitalised.

Therein lies the solution. Africa has very few entrepreneurs, and this is not the place to discuss the why. However, they can still create wealth, through the use of compliance models such as franchising.

Africa's future lies in franchising, both internationally and locally developed. Compliance models create bankable SME's. Bankable SME's create opportunities for wealth creation. Compliance models result in major risk mitigation.

Rob Smorfitt





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(Visit Dr. Rob's Website) Have an MBA and a PhD in entrepreneurship. Three key areas of ongoing research are entrepreneurship and innovation in large businesses, the impact of legislation on SMEs and SME finance. Run my own SME blog at http://sme-smb-smme.blogspot.com as well as an entrepreneurship and innovation for large businesses blog at http://innoveur.blogspot.com I have been self-employed since 1982. I have started or purchased in excess of 40 businesses since then. Most were sold again and a few were shut down because of a lack of profitability. Many were run by staff or family while I worked in full time employment in my bigger businesses. 6 books written in Entrepreneurship and Project Management educational field. Written articles for various magazines, newspapers and websites. Married with 3 children (22, 21 and 14).

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