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Richard Oakley is best described as a ‘media guy, entrepreneur, and full-time geek’, a role he somehow found himself in despite dedicating his varsity years at Rhodes University to studying Law. Starting his first company at 17 years old, Richard is an entrepreneur at heart, despite the fact that he spends his 9-5 in the media industry. You’ll more than likely find him talking all things tech and startup over beers in Cape Town.
"The Hardware Renaissance". It's unmissable. Paul Graham has noticed it and, certainly, my credit card has. Where once, entrepreneurs turned to software to form their 'next big thing', there is an increasing trend towards hardware in this space and, while many would seem to point to the likes of Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms as the driving force behind this shift, I believe that the credit should really be handed to two guys in Cupertino who changed the way the ...