Jeff Miller, non-executive chairman of Seed Academy has announced the ongoing South Africa’s first startup survey is meant to benchmark the current state of the startup ecosystem in the country.
“Whilst more funding and opportunities are available for startups, we need to benchmark where we are and which areas need improvement – we have therefore developed South Africa’s first start up survey,” he said.
“The survey aims to get a national picture of startup entrepreneurs, what challenges they face, what issues relate to funding, what sort of additional support is needed to increase success rates. We hope to get up to 1000 responses and we will share our findings. This national survey will develop impetus for industry and government to align efforts to create a more sustainable and successful startup culture in South Africa. It’s essential that we succeed to create an economically successful country and to reduce our high unemployment rate.”
The survey is targeting startup entrepreneurs who have been in business for less than five years, should take about five minutes to complete here. Those that participate could win one of three places at Seed Academy’s entrepreneur training programme valued at R48 000.
