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Arabica Robusta

Pambazuka - The Age of Polipreneurship - 2 views

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  • This is the case precisely because the kind of politics that has now taken a firm grip on South Africa and most other societies around our globe is embedded in a system of neoliberal capitalist social and productive relations whose prime vehicle has been business. The very essence of this system is to construct and run societies based on individualised and privatised material benefit, the ‘ethics’ of accumulative greed and self-aggrandisement as well as institutionalised injustice and inequality. 

  • Thus, when we take a critical look at the contemporary polipreneurship that has been borne out of this systemic frame, we cannot just focus on the politicians, political parties and private business sectors; we have to also look at ourselves.
  • In this reality the lines between business and politics have effectively disappeared. There is no foundational difference between: Premier Foods colluding to fix the bread price (and then using their corporate and monetary power to make sure that they mostly get away with it); and, the ANC and its leaders colluding to ensure their self-constructed ‘investment’ vehicle - Chancellor House - directly benefits from government mining policies (and then using their political and institutional power to arrogantly dismiss any wrongdoing and also get away with it).

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  • In our polipreneur age, the mandarins of capitalist politics and capitalist business have perfected the art of creating a sustained symbiosis between the private and the public ‘interest’. They have been able to achieve this because most of those who organisationally and institutionally represent the ‘public interest’ at various levels of governance as well as ever-increasing numbers of ordinary people have personally imbibed and institutionally integrated the ‘traditions, cultures and values’ of their business counterparts. In the process, the measurement of what is ‘successful’ and of what is ‘good for society’ has become almost completely delinked from the historic and popular struggle for a universally conceived but mainly nationally practiced, collective human solidarity and benefit. 

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Leonardo Gottems

Innovation in southern Brazil: the case of Paradoxa, by Leonardo Gottems - 0 views

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Brazil Cut Opinion and tagged Acxiom Corporation Business GoDigital innovation investment investors José Cezar Martins Paradoxa venture capitalist

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  • Leonardo Gottems on 04 Jun 12
     
    José Cezar Martins is a venture capitalist in southern Brazil. His company, Paradoxa, is based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, and was designed to explore the startups of the region and "providing the resources and network to make a start-up a high-value asset". In an exclusive interview to Timizzer, Martins explains his experiences, including failures, the risks of co-investments and investments on innovation, the environment of innovation in southern Brazil, and starting a business with "little or no money". The entrepreneur thinks that the potential of his region, especially on intellectual capability, is underestimated by investors.
mohammad saygal

Become An Angel Investor - 0 views

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    By Ross Bonander - ASKMEN Being an angel investor takes a rare combination of commitment, tenacity and motivation. Unlike venture capitalists, angel investors use their own money to provide early or "seed" stage financing for start-up companies. Their investment typically fills the gap between a company's venture capital and its debt finance, and they bear substantially more risk than their ve
gyaanmart

Boost Up Your Startup Business With The Help Of A Business Consultant - 0 views

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    A business advisor is different than a co-founder or capitalist.
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Arabica Robusta

Pambazuka - Globalising economic apartheid - 1 views

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shared by Arabica Robusta on 19 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • the presence of tax havens, whether specialising in corporate or maritime services, consistently undermines national and international rule-of-law. This was the case with the capitalist apartheid regime in South Africa, who circumvented oil sanctions through the 'socialist' government of Seychelles. The Iranian revolution evidenced the fall of the US-backed Shah, depriving the apartheid regime of secure oil supplies.
  • By pyramiding holding companies in jurisdictions characterised by secrecy, the corporate beneficiaries of the apartheid regime were able to access resources and labour on the cheap, while easily navigating global sanctions.
  • Not much has changed when it comes to the use of secrecy jurisdictions as a means of looting African minerals. Until recently, Sierra Leone’s diamond industry was dominated by two firms: SLDC and Koidu Holdings. The latter was wholly owned by two entities based in tax havens, both of which are directly connected to the UK: Guernsey and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) through BSG Resources, recently implicated as a potential funder for Zimbabwe's Marange fields (via Canadile).
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  • As Fidelity Corporate Services stated, bearer shares ‘represent the ultimate way of ensuring the anonymity of offshore company owners’. To better state the obvious, Fidelity articulated why corporations should maintain entities in tax havens: ‘Tax avoidance generally means creating and organising such business structure which would pay minimum possible amount of taxes without breaking the law. All international offshore financial services industry which is functioning on a legal basis is about tax avoidance and not about tax evasion.’
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