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beLAUNCH, South Korea’s Biggest startup and technology conference has revealed this year’s 20 top startups from Korea and abroad which will be presenting at the event. The two day conference which aims to support startups to grow and scale will attract leading startups, investors, developers and representatives from technology companies in Korea and abroad.
James Jung, Founder and CEO of beSUCCESS says that more than 2000 attendees are expected for this year's event.
The top 20 also include the winner of ... 
The pitch deck. An under-appreciated animal. The visual 'powerpoint' that accompanies a startup's pitch often doesn't get the time it deserves, but visually presenting your business model and market-strategy in an efficient way to potential investors is key to winning them over. After all venture capitalists and angel investors are busy people. Luckily there's a company in the USA that wants to help you with this.
Born in Austin, Texas, Investor Pitches is a company that not only builds pitch decks ... 
Demo Day has come and gone for African startup accelerator 88mph and the ten startups that completed their intensive three month acceleration programme, capped off with a beautiful Cape Town sunset.
The ten startups that presented on the day began the programme three months ago, and through the process they moulded (some even changed) their ideas into marketable, scalable companies with the hopes of achieving follow-on funding.
Taking the rise of Africa's mobile market into account, 88mph ... 
When we last checked in on SnapBill, the cloud-based Swiss Army knife of recurring billing systems, it was yet to execute on its international ambitions. Today, SnapBill supports 34 currencies and claims the type of flexibility that allows it to handle just about any tax configuration.
SnapBill endeavours to be a complete billing solution. Its users can bill their clients as well as add recurring products and services to their clients' accounts to automate the entire invoicing and payment collection process.
A ... 
In order to lure startups and foreign investment, the Brazilian government is promoting visas and other incentives for foreign businesses to relocate to the country. The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has announced a US$78-million investment in an attempt to spur growth of up to 100 domestic and foreign technology entrepreneurs.
This is taking form in programmes such as Startup Brasil which is attempting to "aggregate groups of actors and institutions" in order to accelerate the startup's process by ... 
Since its re-launch in 2006, WAYN has managed to become one of the few social startups to secure funding despite a recent downturn in social media investment. After changing its market strategy over the years, the ‘Pinterest for travelers’ has relaunched its site once again in February. WAYN (Where Are You Now?) claims to be the world’s largest travel and social network and tries to fuse commerce with social. WAYN has, and still is, showing interest in key emerging markets ... 
The guys behind popular classifieds network, Gumtree.com, is launching their job search engine, Adzuna, in South Africa today. Having gained traction in the UK through social job hunting tools, real time labour market data and of course search, the venture-backed job aggregator now aims to make a splash in South Africa.
Adzuna reckons that are over 50 000 live job vacancies in South Africa that represent an estimated R16.9-billion of ‘Total Earning Opportunity’. The job search egnine collates the latest ... 
Fewer and fewer entrepreneurs are starting social startups. Why? Fizzling IPOs and disappointing return on investments mean that social is no longer the investor darling it once was. The facade has fallen.
While some have warned against a coming social media bubble, it took volatile social startups like Groupon, Zynga and Facebook to make up-and-coming entrepreneurs think twice about starting a social-centric venture.
Social has traditionally been about user numbers first, business model second. It's for this reason that analysts estimate Facebook ... startups | entrepreneurship | startup-news | ecommerce |
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