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#25 How Nkosana Mafico realised he had to build his own brand to be an interesting candidate
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:34:23
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Meet this week awesome studentpreneur: Nkosana H Mafico, 20 years old, Student in Business Management at University of Queensland and entrepreneur at Shandar Entreprise in Brisbane, Australia. Wrap up: Nkosana realised early on that high school is a unique market where customers cannot leave for 6 hours and took advantage of it. The fact that his parents did not give him much pocket money was a motivation for starting his gardening business. Interestingly in his first year at University he followed the voices from the other mindset: be a good student and wait to graduate to start your busines. It was the realisation that he couldn’t get a good internship because the conventional way of applying was not his strength that made him go back to being a Studentpreneur. His motivation was to build his own brand to be an interesting candidate. A business plan competition got him started again and led him to other opportunities with several accelerator programs such as iLab and Muru-D even though he had to invest