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Crowdfunding: It’s more than just having an idea and collecting the money
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Kickstart your startup with Google and Silicon Cape
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Color, a new social networking app that does away with privacy
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New online classifieds site targets South African market
MIH Naspers, South Africa’s internet powerhouse, launches a brand new online classifieds venture on Monday in a bid to become market-leader in a field…
Paper.li makes you editor-in-chief of your online newspaper
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VC: ‘If you can’t describe your business in a tweet, it’s not a business’
PoweredbyVC is a venture capital fund based in Cape Town, initially established in 2010 by members of emerging market investment group Here Be Dragons…
Now you can create a social network using your phone
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Will SA’s unbanked masses embrace M-Pesa?
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