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Top startup web events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [06/04/2020] [Updated]
Tomorrow the Grindstone Accelerator will be hosting four live video streaming micro-sessions of their popular full day Find-Make-Grow-Realise (FMGR) programme.
This, while serial entrepreneur and author Nic Haralambous (pictured above), and LifeCheq CEO, Abu Addae will host a web Q&A session on Wednesday (8 April).
Ventureburn has updated its existing weekly series that highlights all the top startup events in Africa, by shifting to focus only on web events broadcast from Africa. This includes webinars as well.
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. Please notify us by the Friday of the week before the event.
Not all the events are free and some will require booking in advance. Please click on the event names to find out more information.
All times below are set in South African time, unless indicated.
In response to Covid-19 and to support SME’s, the Grindstone Accelerator (of which the SA venture capital firm Knife Capital is a part of) will next Tuesday (7 April) be hosting four live video streaming micro-sessions of their popular full day Find-Make-Grow-Realise (FMGR) programme. The event will be live streamed exclusively to any company founders and their employees who want to understand the FMGR process. Register here.
Date: 7 April, 4pm to 5pm
Location: Quicket
Join the discussion by business advisors, consultants, mentors, coaches and others who are supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs to learn how they help their small business clients to address their lockdown challenges and connect with other practitioners who are also making sense of working in isolation.
The online meeting takes place each Tuesday and will be facilitated by business mentor Christoff Oosthuysen.
Date: 7 April, 12pm to 2pm
Location: lockdown.the-epi.org
Alexandria Angels which hosts Egypt’s Techne Summit, is running a series of free online interviews with worldwide experts every Sunday and Tuesday.
Date: 7 April
Location: Zoom
Cash & Capital during Covid-19
Endeavor SA will host a webinar on how to manage cash and capital in South Africa during Covid-19.
The event will feature a panel of senior serial entrepreneurs and expert VC investors, including Allan Gray director Rob Dower, Clickatell founder Pieter de Villiers, SweepSouth co-founder Aisha Pandor and Knife Capital partner Andrea Bohmert.
Date: 7 April, 5pm
Location: Zoom
LaunchLab Marketing Masterclass
Stellenbosch University’s incubator LaunchLab will hold a Masterclass webinar with guest speaker Andrew Watson, co-founder of Watson Ferguson.
Offering an alternative model to the typical ad agency, he co-founded Watson Ferguson Marketing Agency, which focussed on delivering holistic, cost-effective and impactful marketing solutions to all businesses – new and old, big and small.
Date: 8 April, 2pm
Location: Quicket
Covid-19 information webinar
Silicon Cape, in partnership with the Hybr Group, will be hosting a webinar featuring various Wesgro, banking and financial sector representatives, to provide the community with information to assist on a psycho-social, business, financial and economic level.
To gain entrance to the webinar, please fill in this Google Form by close of business 7 April.
Date: 8 April, 5pm to 7pm
Location: Zoom
Serial entrepreneur and author Nic Haralambous (pictured above), and LifeCheq CEO, Abu Addae are hosting this exclusive Q&A.
They will talk on how to hustle smart: is your business going in the right direction to give you the things that are ultimately important to you – the lifestyle you want for your family, or the financial freedom you’re looking for?
Date: 8 April, 5.30pm
Location: LifeQ
Flutterwave’s Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Pulse founder Leonard Stiegeler and SweepSouth’s Aisha Pandor with Silvertree Holdings managing director Manuel Koser, discuss the effects of Covid-19 on African startups and what to expect in a post-pandemic world.
Date: 9 April, 2pm to 3pm
Location: Crowdcast
SME Marketing strategy workshop
Absa’s innovation hub, WorkInProgress is hosting a virtual SME marketing strategy workshop on Facebook. Brand strategist Andrew Watson will be hosting a live session to help entrepreneurs succeed where they need it most.
Date: 9 April, 10.30am
Location: Facebook
Investor readiness during lockdown
Startup Grind Cape Town will host an investor readiness talk with Vuyisa Qabaka, an investor and capital raiser who has raised all the different types of funding that startups can ever raise.
In this virtual event, Qabaka will share with us what investors look for in startups and the various type of money that is available to entrepreneurs.
Date: 9 April, 3pm to 4.30pm
Location: Startup Grind
Virtual Yoco Meets offers entrepreneurs a community to create connections, share experiences and trade insights. This week the meetup offers its first live streamed event.
Date: 9 April, 6pm
Location: Crowdcast
Nic Haralambous weekly business stream
Serial entrepreneur and author Nic Haralambous (pictured above) is hosting a weekly business stream for startup founders and business owners every Friday at 2pm.
This stream will be free and this week will kick off with a discussion around funding, venture capitalists and options that founders in SA have when trying to raise funding.
Date: 10 April, 2pm
Location: Crowdcast
Join Startup Grind Cape Town this Friday at Startup Circles Social Friday. During the virtual event attendees will talk about what we think our world will look like and what we can do going forward as startups.
Participants will break into groups where there will be discussions on how to solve some of the current business challenges as well as discuss the opportunities that are now becoming available.
This Startup Circles member-only event has been made accessible to all for free to help with coping with coronavirus lockdown. Virtual seats are limited.
Date: 10 April, 3pm
Location: Social Circles
Johannesburg based business support organisation Aurik Business Accelerator plans to host a regular series of webinars to assist business owners to tackle the coronavirus.
Date: TBC
Location: TBC
Editor’s note (6, 7 and 9 April 2020): We included details of Silicon Cape and the Hybr Group’s Covid-19 information webinar which takes place on 8 April.
We also included details of Virtual Yoco Meets, which takes place on 9 April and Endeavor SA’s webinar on 7 April. And finally, we also added Absa’s WorkInProgress’s virtual SME marketing strategy workshop, which takes place on 10 April.
Hang on a second. We added another event, Nic Haralambous’s weekly business stream, this Friday.
Featured image: Nic Haralambous via Facebook
