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In business, to be a success does not mean you have to be an extraordinary person. The truth, it turns out, is that you can actually achieve great success by doing seven very ordinary things.
For Triggerfish CEO, Stuart Forrest, this is a proven fact because by his own admission he is "very ordinary". Triggerfish Animation, a Cape Town based film and entertainment company, is the producer of the animated feature films "Adventures in Zambezia" and "Khumba".
Speaking at this year's Net ... 
For a while, pet-related startups seemed to be a rarity. Ever since the Pets.com debacle in which the venture-backed startup went from a Nasdaq IPO to liquidation in about 9 months, entrepreneurs have given pet-ecommerce a slightly wider berth.
Looking back, it was a difficult time for online startups in general. Not to mention one that spent US$1.2 million on a super bowl ad without any profitability in sight, right at the dot-com bubble's popping point. Since then, the online economy ... 
Last year, we reported that DropGifts, Rocket Internet's social gifting startup was about to enter South Africa. Fast forward roughly a year, and there is still no trace of the Wrapp-clone. What happened?
Kevin Tucker, the serial-entrepreneur who would have headed up DropGifts South Africa, tells Ventureburn that Rocket Internet was due to launch DropGifts in 27 countries, but scratched South Africa off the list days before the launch.
"We were due to launch within days and they suddenly, due to all ... 
Dineplan is launching its digital reservations system for restaurants today. While it joins a veritable smorgasbord of web-based restaurant reservation systems, Dineplan's customer profiling and trend analysis features look promising.
The service is management-focused. There's no patron-facing restaurant database to browse; instead, the South African-bred Dineplan is all about helping restaurants manage their reservation processes -- from the real-time booking plugin that restaurant owners can add to their websites, to statistics and analytics.
A nice departure from traditional web-based offerings, ... 
Founder and CEO of mobile ad network giant InMobi Naveen Tewari has come a long way. Tewari is an engineer by training, studied at Harvard Business School, and worked at consulting firm McKinsey. In between all that, Tewari also had some experience working in startups while he was in Silicon Valley.
Entrepreneurs being entrepreneurs, Tewari was very fascinated with the rapidly changing mobile internet. He wanted to build something which he could call his own. Tewari and his team started to ... 
An article published by The Economist earlier this year, quoted research by the pressure group, Partnership for a New American Economy, which found that some 40% of Fortune 500 firms were founded by immigrants or their children. An earlier report in 2011 entitled Immigrant Founders and Key Personnel in America’s 50 Top Venture-Funded Companies concluded that more than half of America's top 50 private venture-funded companies -- as ranked by Down Jones VentureSource -- were founded by immigrants.
America's immigration policies ... 
People are spoiled for choice when it comes to email marketing services. For example, internationally there is MailChimp, iContact, Benchmark and Campaign Monitor, while Everlytic, and Graphic Mail have made their marks on the South African market. Dashing into the fray comes Total Send, an email marketing service from Cape Town. It's pièce de résistance? Aggressive pricing.
Total Send's founder Luke Wingfield Digby believes that the pay-per-click (PPC) advertising and search engine optimisation (SEO) scenes have become too crowded and expensive. ... 
Looking to expand your startup and network into Ghana? Silicon Cape could help you out. The entrepreneurial catalyst is opening up applications for all startups interested in being part of its latest trade mission, which is scheduled to hit the country in August this year.
Following its successful Pitch London trip, the South African entrepreneurs who join this Silicon Cape mission will have the opportunity to meet Ghanaian startups, pitch to investors as well as gain insight into the West ... 
If you consider yourself an entrepreneur - someone with an adept business acumen, an affinity for risk-taking and developing ideas into marketable, scalable companies - then you probably haven't considered entering the hit reality television show The X Factor. Well one show you should consider entering is its spin-off competition, Entrepreneur 'X' Factor, which promises to appreciate your skill-set, and give you an opportunity to fast-track your business idea.
Brought to you by "transformational coaching and events company" Rock Your Life, ... 
Today, Memebox is the Birchbox of South Korea; the beauty sample subscription and e-commerce service is leading in terms of marketshare, gaining thousands of fans and pulling in over S$1-million in annual revenue. But that wasn't always the case.
Hyungseok Dino Ha, CEO and founder of Memebox Korea, recently shared his startup's story at a Tech in Asia meetup in Singapore, providing insightful (and honest) answers to questions about how his company grew.
Humble beginnings
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