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Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [21/11/2016]
Looking to get into the South African startup scene or scratch up on some of your skills? Well, you’ve come to the right place. There are loads of competitions, networking sessions and workshops happening around South Africa and the rest of the continent (namely Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana) that we’ve rounded up to make your life a bit easier.
This article is part of a weekly series that highlights all the top startup competitions, networking sessions, workshops and conferences around South Africa, and the greater region. If you have any event recommendations for us to add to the list, or next week’s, please let us know in the comments below or send us an email.
Not all of the events are free and some will require booking in advance. Please click on the event names to find out more information.
Cape Town & Stellenbosch
StartCPT Hosts Catherine Lückhoff (NicheStreem)
Founder of MANGO-OMC, HQAfrica and now recently, NicheStreem (note the 2 e’s in the name). This being Catherine’s 3rd Startup, and moving even more into the music industry, it will be great to hear how she put that all together and raised international funding.
Date: 22 November, 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Workshop 17, V&A Waterfront, 17 Dock Road
Lioness Lean In Breakfast Event – Cape Town
The Lioness Lean In Breakfast Series is based on a breakfast networking and speaker presentation format that is highly popular with women entrepreneurs in Africa. The format of each Lioness Lean In is a two-and-a-half hour event, commencing with breakfast and networking, followed by inspirational guest speakers sharing their own entrepreneurial journeys and experiences; a presentation on inspirational Lionesses of Africa from across the continent; a presentation from the sponsor; and rounded-off with an open Q&A session.
Date: 22 November, 8:30am to 11:30am
Location: Workshop 17, 17 Dock Road, Waterfront
The ‘Hard Lessons Learned in Raising a Startup’ Story
Join us for the last fireside chat of the year with Dewald Nolte, Senior Vice President of Partnerships and Alliances at Entersekt – one of Stellenbosch’s most successful tech companies. Dewald is one of four founders responsible for building Entersekt’s global network of strategic partners, and with a technical ability as impressive as his solid business acumen, he has also been involved in several successful projects further afield, including the A-Darter missile program for Denel Dynamics.
Date: 23 November, 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: The LaunchLab, Hammandshand Road, Stellenbosch
For people working in startups, lean (startup) coffee is a weekly 1-hour coffee that runs a mash-up of leancoffee.org with theleanstartup.com. Unlike other startup meetups, lean (startup) coffee is agendaless, speakerless and talks about what you care about. We each propose topics, vote on them and talk about the most popular ones for a few minutes. Come visit to see how it works.
Date: 23 November, 8:30am to 9:30am
Location: TRUTH. coffeecult, 1 Somerset Road, Green Point
FREE #CapeMarketing Workshops for Small Businesses (Woodstock)
Are you a start-up, entrepreneur or small business owner? Perhaps you just have an inkling of an idea and need some advice or inspiration. We offer a relaxed and safe space for you to discuss any issues, ideas or success stories. If you have any marketing problems you need help with, you can bring them all to the table and tap into the wealth of experience and knowledge from the group.
Date: 23 November, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: The Cape Town Garage, The Woodstock Exchange, Block A / 4th Floor, 66 Albert Road, Woodstock
FREE #CapeMarketing Workshops for Small Businesses (Diep River)
Are you a start-up, entrepreneur or small business owner? Perhaps you just have an inkling of an idea and need some advice or inspiration. We offer a relaxed and safe space for you to discuss any issues, ideas or success stories. If you have any marketing problems you need help with, you can bring them all to the table and tap into the wealth of experience and knowledge from the group.
Date: 24 November, 9:00am
Location: N/A
Cape R User Group R/Finance Meetup
Stuart Reid (Quantitative Strategist at NMRQL and blogger at Turing Finance) will be presenting his R implementation of the heteroscedasticity-consistent variance ratio test developed by Lo and MacKinlay in 1988 to test the Random Walk Hypothesis. Stuart will then test whether or not the variance ratio test can distinguish between random fictitious securities and those traded on the JSE.
Date: 24 November, 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Barclays Rise, Woodstock Exchange, 66-68 Albert Road, 5th Floor, Block B, Woodstock
Johannesburg
Focusing on building long term business relationships through word of mouth referrals. We are looking for professionals in selected industries to join us and were we tap into one another’s networks to grow each of our businesses.
Date: 23 November, 7:00am to 8:30am
Location: The Street Cafe (Rosebank Union Church), 40 St Andrews Road
Google Startup Grind hosts Grace Harding (CEO of Ocean Basket)
Grace Harding is the CEO of Ocean Basket and the Founder of the Actuate Group. Grace has more than 30 years’ experience across a number of business disciplines and today runs Africa’s largest seafood franchise.
Date: 24 November, 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: Standard Bank Incubator, 5 Cradock Ave, Rosebank
Kenya
Management Consultancy: Scaling Your Business
Join us on a conversation on how to scale your business. Scalability is “the ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.” For a business, scalability means that you are prepared to handle an increasing number of customers, clients, and/or users. It’s a crucial factor in helping your business grow and succeed.
Date: 24 November, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: Mettā Nairobi, 14 Riverside Drive, Belgravia, 6th Flr, Suite 6A, Nairobi
Startup Weekend Education Nairobi
At Startup Weekend, you’ll be immersed in the ideal environment for startup magic to happen. Surrounded by smart, passionate people and with the best tools and approaches at your disposal, you’ll take giant leaps toward creating a business, becoming a founder, and connecting with the right people and resources. Plus we have great prizes in store for the start-uppers with the best idea.
Date: 25 November, 5:30pm
Location: iBiz (5th Floor Student Centre), Strathmore University, Keri Road, Madaraka Estate, Nairobi
Lady Problems Hackathon – Nairobi
We talk a lot about the lack of women in technology. What’s keeping them out? The Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series, presented by AngelHack, is launching in a city near you! The Lady Problems Global Hackathon Series is setting out to answer that question. We’re challenging our community of 100,000+ women and men, developers, designers, entrepreneurs to create technology that will address the problems that prevent female entrepreneurship. And course, male allies are welcome too!
Date: 26 to 27 November, 9:00am to 6:00pm
Location: Nest Group Africa Ltd. Metta, Suite 6A 6th Floor, Belgravia 14 Riverside, Off Riverside Drive, Nairobi
Nigeria
Accessing Capital for SME Start-up, Growth & Expansion
This training will share with you steps, processes and procedures for improving your chances of obtaining financial assistance with favourable terms and conditions from investors, banks and other financial institutions.
Date: 21 November, 9:00am to 4:00pm
Location: Lagos Vantage Hub, 5th floor Mosesola House, Opposite Alade Market, 103 Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos
Competing with Giants: Doing More with Less
This training helps Small and Medium Scale business owners and top executives from emerging markets to gain a clearer picture of the options they really have at the arrival of Multinational Corporations at the local scene as they compete with much larger local and international competitors, in an increasingly global marketplace.
Date: 24 November, 9:00am
Location: 1 Engineering close, Victoria Island, Lagos
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