Nyameko De bruin

Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Entrepreneur, Event planner, Idea generator, Social entrepreneur, Student

5 years from now, I see myself as an angel investor. Philanthropist. Ultimate connector. Someone who has contributed immensely in the development of the ecosystem startups in the region of Nelson Mandela Bay as a results someone you will need to talk to when starting a company. Someone who has achieved the goal of reducing unemployment significantly in the region of Nelson Mandela Bay. I have seen failures, I have made mistakes and I have learned how to correct mistakes however I find comfort in knowing that those who  commit mistakes are those who  work and try.

I am passionate about building Entrepreneurial ecosystems for businesses, ecosystems are defined as a set of interdependent actors and factors coordinated in such a way that they enable productive entrepreneurship within a particular territory. Given the high rate of unemployment in the eastern cape, not only in province but rather throughout the country. Job creation, teaching entrepreneurship and building township ecosystem those are the highest on the list. Job creation is very critical for the livelihood of the people. This is very important to me because it also affects the youth in the townships Today we have a funny term called "unemployed Graduates" but when we younger we were told education is everything but today people with degrees cant get employed it is here that i had to find a solution through Jolas Cafe business which seeks to create jobs, reduce unemployment.

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are defined as a set of interdependent actors and factors coordinated in such a way that they enable productive entrepreneurship within a particular territory. In emerging market economies moving from needs based entrepreneurship in the informal market to opportunity based markets can be tough if you journey alone. Entrepreneurs isolated seldom grow to reach their full potential. Consciously bringing together like minded networks in Port Elizabeth presents an opportunity for networks to consolidate into movements. platforms such as Startup grind enables this environment and for people to be able to help connect young and old entrepreneurs.

In an effort to create the ecosystems for startups in the city we have brought startupgrind powered by Google entrepreneurs to Port Elizabeth which I'm a co director of. The platform startup grind enables to be able to help connect young and old entrepreneurs. I am also in the process of bringing Startup Guide to Port Elizabeth it's a publishing company, which was founded in 2014 by Danish entrepreneur Sissel Hansen,produces guidebooks and tools to help entrepreneurs navigate and connect with different startup scenes across the globe. Entrepreneurs isolated seldom grow to reach their full potential. Consciously bringing together like minded networks in Port Elizabeth presents an opportunity for networks to consolidate into movements because In emerging market economies moving from needs based entrepreneurship in the informal market to opportunity based markets can be tough if you journey alone. In an effort to create jobs What we have done to achieve this goal is to partner up with local institutions such as my former high school which is to in order to use their home economics facility which they utilize for their cooking classes hence in return we provide the school with 10% of our monthly revenues. We hire unemployed youth in the community and they become distributors by selling the food almost anywhere were you can find people. We look to replicate the same system in the neighboring areas which have institutions such as Grahamstown with Rhodes University and East london, with Walter Sisulu University. This will be our model expanding nationally in terms of building the national franchise. Long term we seek to create a bursary fund aimed and we also seek to end student hunger in the Universities.