Burn Media Sites

Productivity On A Large Screen

AI-Enabled Samsung Galaxy Z Series with Innovative Foldable Form Factor & Significantly Improved Screen Delivers New User Experiences Across Productivity, Communication & Creativity The…

Everlytic Launches Cutting-Edge AI Studio with WhatsApp Chatbots for Smarter Communication

Everlytic is set to redefine customer communication with its revolutionary AI Studio, using WhatsApp for seamless chatbot interactions. The company, South Africa’s most trusted…

Everlytic’s new API Communicator feature enhances customer engagement across multiple channels

Everlytic is making it easier than ever before to streamline customer touchpoints by delivering automated messages across multiple channels. This comes as South Africa’s…

Savant Launches Savant Build Cohort 3 to Accelerate Deep-Tech Innovation in the Green Economy

Savant is proud to announce the launch of Savant Build Cohort 3, set to begin in April 2025. This accelerator programme will continue to…

Technology and skills: AWS’s plan for Sub-Saharan Africa

AWS’s investments in Sub-Saharan Africa are reshaping the region’s digital landscape, laying the groundwork for innovation, and addressing critical gaps in technology adoption and…

Simplicity at scale: The role of leadership in agile transformation

Simplicity is often undervalued in leadership, but Jonathan Allen, Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, believes it is central to modernisation and agility. “Complexity…

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the all-new Surface Pro and the all-new Surface Laptop to empower users in South Africa to unlock…

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor introduced its latest foldable device, the Honor Magic V3, at IFA in Berlin. It is expected to be available in the South African…

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Guinness World Record holder Bryan Berg, alongside Honor, will attempt to build the tallest house of cards in eight hours without using any glue….

Nio Firefly brings Galaxy design to compact EVs

Nio might only be a decade old, but like most Chinese car companies, it is boundlessly ambitious. As European, Korean and Japanese brands struggle…

Google Cast and other Christmas goodies for Rivian

Google Cast and YouTube are what you need when your vehicle must become a place of refuge from holiday traffic or scheduling stress. We…

GM switches-off Cruise control on $10bn robotaxi project

GM no longer believes in the business case for robotaxis. After investing $10bn the Cruise self-driving car company, with the promise of significant future…

Continue in 10 seconds

Skip

News • 18 Oct 2017

Startups have 10 days left to complete Ventureburn survey, win iPhone 8, more

By Stephen Timm

Startups have just over 10 days left to complete the second annual Startup Survey — the Ventureburn Tech Startup Survey powered by Telkom Futuremakers — and stand a chance to win an iPhone 8 as well as a business startup hamper powered by Telkom, BCX and Trudon as well as other great prizes.

Ventureburn, in partnership with Telkom Futuremakers and analytics company Qurio launched the survey on 2 October. The survey will close on 31 October.

Thus far 165 questionnaires have been completed in full.

‘The Ventureburn Startup Survey will prove crucial in providing data on the challenges faced by South Africa’s tech startups’

This year’s survey follows the successful 2015 survey and aims to again to uncover the nuts and bolts of the startup sector and answer a number of questions. These include:

What are the major challenges facing the country’s entrepreneurs?
What do South Africa’s startup founders look like?
What sectors are startups more prevalent in?
What types of funding are startups securing, and where are they getting their money from?
Why are people flocking to startups to work there?
Where is the most startup activity happening in South Africa?

Telkom head of enterprise and supplier development Litha Kutta believes the survey will prove crucial in providing data on the challenges faced by South Africa’s tech startups.

“With unemployment being high and the country experiencing stagnant economic growth, startup businesses are a very viable option to enter the economy,” says Kutta.

Criteria

You need to be a South African technology-based startup or small business with annual revenues under R20m and/or staff numbers of anywhere from 1 to 100.

Prizes

Participants stand a chance to win a business startup hamper powered by Telkom, BCX and Trudon (including 20 GB data, free mobile minutes, free night surfer data and router and free advertising for a year) as well as a new iPhone 8 sponsored by Ventureburn and other great prizes.