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Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [22/08/2016]
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
Startup Grind: Anke Kuipers (Bend-it & Catching Games)
Startup Grind Cape Town is turning 3 and they are throwing a party with the Dutch Consulate and some friends.
Anke is a serial entrepreneur from the Netherlands who recently successfully crowd-funded her shoe company Bend-it BV that she started together with her sister Inge Kuipers. The crowdfunding helped to spread the shoes all over the world and they are now also being sold in various shops in Europe.
Date: 22 August, 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Avenue @ V&A Waterfront, 40 Dock Road, Cape Town
Business of Design, the two-day conference that has been creatively revolutionising the way South Africans do business, returns to JHB and CT in August with more lessons and inspiration from the country’s top business experts and industry professionals.
Date: 23 to 24 August
Location: Inner City Ideas Cartel, Street: 71 Waterkant Street
Rise Mentor Sessions: Carl Anderson
Carl Anderson, a Recruitment and Talent Engagement Specialist will be at Rise for guidance and advise on how to recruit talented individuals as your startup scales up.
Date: 23 August, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Barclays Rise, Woodstock Exchange, 5th Floor, Block B, 66 Albert road, Woodstock
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.
Date: 24 August, 8:30am to 9:30am
Location: TRUTH. coffeecult, 1 Somerset Road, Green Point
Rise and Shine breakfast with Johan Bosini
Join Rise for a relaxed breakfast where Johan Bosini will share his reflections and insights on how he scaled Jumo, a leading mobile money marketplace for emerging markets.
Date: 25 August, 8:30am to 10:00am
Location: Barclays Rise, Woodstock Exchange, 5th Floor, Block B, 66 Albert road, Woodstock
This year’s Mini Maker Faire will bring techies, tinkerers, hackers, hobbyists, crafters, artists, tech gurus, authors and inventors together to engage with the public and exchange ideas
Date: 26 to 28 August
Location: Cape Town Science Centre, 370B Main Road, Observatory
Johannesburg
SABAN Johannesburg Breakfast Launch
An invitation-only event for South African early stage investors and stakeholders to celebrate the launch of SABAN, hear the latest Angel developments from across Africa and discuss the future of Angel Investing in South Africa.
Date: 24 August, 7:30am to 9:30am
Location: Sandton, Johannesburg
Take a walk through the entrepreneurship exhibition aisle and meet business funders, incubators, and private sector organisations that support entrepreneurs.
Date: 24 August, 10:00am to 5:30pm
Location: Sandton Convention Centre, Street: 161 Maude Street
StartupGrind: Aisha Pandor (SweepSouth)
Aisha R. Pandor is co-founder of SweepSouth (sweepsouth.com), an online platform for booking, paying for and managing homes cleaning services from your laptop, phone or tablet.
Date: 23 August, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Standard Bank Incubator, 5 Cradock Ave, Rosebank
Kenya
+254 Rising Startup Pitch Competition at iHub
+254 Rising is a startup pitch competition in Nairobi designed to support the next generation of innovative Kenyan startups. Teams of talented young Kenyan entrepreneurs will compete in an intense pitch competition to imagine new mobile products, tools and services that could form the basis of a brand new startup.
Date: 23 August, 4:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: iHub, Ngong Road Bishop Magua Centre, Fourth Floor, Nairobi
iHub has partnered with uWakili an online legal services platform to provide specific pro bono legal services to the iHub and m:lab startups. uWakili is an online legal services platform that provides Kenyan businesses and individuals access to cost-effective and easy-to-use online legal services.
Date: 26 August, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: iHub, Ngong Road, Nairobi
Nigeria
MEST Talks Lagos: Investing in Tech Startups
The Chat will be moderated by Neku Atawodi, one of Forbes Africa’s 30 under 30 for 2016, founder of Malaik – an impact-focused approach to equity crowdfunding in Africa, and MEST Lagos Incubator General Manager.
Date: 23 August, 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: Cafe Neo, Adeyemi Lawson Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
So you’ve launched your product and now it’s time to start getting customers. This is usually the most difficult phase in the life of a Startup. It’s important you move from that launch phase to building something that has a strong market demand, in order to achieve product-market fit. With the Growth Hacking Series, you’ll learn how to get early adopters, customers and feedback which is crucial to the ongoing development and eventual success of your product.
Date: 27 August, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: The Colony, 48 Allen Avenue , Ikeja, Lagos
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