Scale-Up Con 2024!
Scaling a business is an intricate and multifaceted journey that requires a strategic approach, meticulous planning, and the ability to adapt to environmental shifts. This year’s Scale-Up Con 2024 provided a comprehensive platform for founders and entrepreneurs to explore these challenges and learn from the best in the industry. With an agenda packed with insightful sessions and expert speakers, the event aimed to equip attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to build profitable, scalable companies in today’s dynamic market.
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Founders Conference 2023 blew the socks off every attendee!
Outsourced CFO believes that providing support for entrepreneurs can change the world. Successful entrepreneurs create economic growth, employment and have great social impact. We serve entrepreneurs, which is why we have hosted the Founders Conference every year for the past 6 years. “There is extraordinary power of community in Africa’s entrepreneurial journey.” ~Louw Barnardt OCFO’s Founders…
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Women In Business 2023 Recap
“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another.” – Serena Williams This year’s Women in Business event was a great opportunity for women to engage with like-minded founders to grow their businesses and make their mark in the business world. We had an incredible line up of speakers: Powering up for scale…
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Scale-Up Con 2023 Recap
Building a successful company is about much more than increasing revenue. When scaling, founders need to consider their strategy, team, processes, products, clients, environmental shifts, and so the list continues. In order to scale effectively, all these elements need to be thoughtfully and meticulously mapped out so that, when you hit that surging growth curve,…
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Founders Conference 2022 lives up to expectations
OCFO’s Founders Conference is a leading event for SMEs in Africa and has become a must-attend in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Hosted by OCFO for the past 5 years, this conference brings together dynamic speakers, motivated attendees, industry-leading sponsors, and allows meaningful networking and learning opportunities for all attendees. Our vision is to inspire, motivate, and…
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Scale-Up Conference 2022
The how, why and when of successful scaling for mid-market companies Scaling up is complex, and our mid-market clients are typically founder and owner-operators, kept busy with focusing on key operations in their business. While they want to scale, many of these owners are unsure of how or when to scale, and are unaware of…
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FundRaise Con 2022
Raising capital for a private company is a complex process. It can take months (if not years) of a founder’s time that should rather be spent growing the company. It is also highly technical and requires a corporate-finance background in order to complete the valuations, financial modeling, due diligence, and other aspects investors look for.…
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2022 Outlook Webinar
In the beginning of 2022, we hosted our first webinar for the year. In this webinar entrepreneurs and executives from OCFO examine the changes that have flipped the business world on its head over the last two years. Various experts in their fields share tips and guides on how to navigate and benefit from these…
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Founders Conference 2021
We hosted our annual flagship event in November 2021 for the 4th consecutive year. The MC for this event, Louw Barnard, co-founder and director of CFO, welcomes everyone to the 2021 Founder’s Conference, held virtually. This conference is the South African-based event of Global Entrepreneurship week held internationally in over 200 countries. Louw explains the…
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Scale-Up Con 2021
Scale-Up Con is a growth-mindset focused evening for entrepreneurs wanting to take their strategy, execution and the rest of their business to the next level. Learn from top founders as they share their knowledge on building better leadership, strategy, marketing, sales, operations, and finance.
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Women in Business Conference 2021
Across the globe, the momentum of women in business is growing. Whether launching a new business or joining a pre-existing one, more and more powerful women are smashing the glass ceiling with greater force and determination. Although this movement has far from reached its peak, it gets closer every year. In celebration of Women’s Month,…
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FundRaise Con 2021
Raising capital for a private company is a complex process. It can take months (if not years) of a founder’s time that should rather be spent growing the company. It is also highly technical and requires a corporate-finance background in order to complete the valuations, financial modeling, due diligence, and other aspects investors look for. FundRaise…
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2021 Outlook Webinar
Learn from founders and professionals what the outlook for doing business in 2021 is for entrepreneurs. Experts and founders will be speaking about what to expect and how to plan strategy, sales, people, digital transformation and finance in the new year. Learn from founders and professionals what the outlook for doing business in 2021 is…
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Founders Conference 2020
The annual Founders Conference took place over Zoom as a virtual conference during COVID-19. The conference brought together the top business people, investors and entrepreneurs around the globe for an opportunity of powerful networking, learning and inspiration. Keynotes and panel discussions were facilitated by top founders who have walked the walk, in celebration of the…
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Scale-Up Con 2020
2020 has actually been a year scaling down, as a lot of companies and industries lost a big portion of their revenue over the last 6 months. We thought that coming out of this crisis as coronavirus numbers are coming down and companies and the economy is firing up again, it is important to go…
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Streamline Your Company
As founder, get to know the latest cloud tech stack for finance and operations and how this can help you build a great company. Our cloud systems team will unpack: – Xero ecosystem and how founder access to information has changed – Zoho as leading CRM system for entrepreneurs – Shopify and the new possibilities…
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Financial must-do’s
As a founder, knowing your numbers is the key to success. Join our CA team to talk you through the best practice finance advice to build great companies. – Business Analysis and profit engineering – Cash Flow Management – Accounting and Management reporting – Corporate Governance – Financial Decision making – Financial Modeling and Forecasting…
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How Business owners can navigate the unpredictable
The Outsourced CFO directors hosted a webinar in order to discuss what business can do in order to navigate the unpredictable. This was mostly based off from what they learned over the last four months during COVID-19 and Lockdown period. Building your organization’s agility to meet unknown new challenges means exploring the outer boundaries of…
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Advising Clients in Crisis
For the first time ever, Outsourced CFO will be doing a panel style discussion with some if its top chartered accountant advisors. We will be discussing what they have learned and advising entrepreneurs during this time. Topics include: Get first hand market feedback of how entrepreneurs are doing at the moment; Learn from best practices…
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COVID-19 Measurements to Support Entrepreneurs
Over the last couple of weeks, our team has received a lot of questions around Tax, Payroll, Scale Down Measures, Funding Relief, the Rupert R1bn fund, the Oppenheimer fund, SEFA funding, and Cash Flow Management. In response, we have decided to host a webinar to offer advice during these critical times. Louw Barnardt, MD and Co-founder of OCFO tackled some concepts and strategies to ensure that your business both survives…
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FundRaise Con 2020
Raising capital for a private company is a complex process. It can take months (if not years) of a founder’s time that should rather be spent growing the company. It is also highly technical and requires a corporate-finance background in order to complete the valuations, financial modeling, due diligence, and other aspects investors look for. FundRaise…
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