With streaming platforms, next-gen gaming, and hybrid lifestyles reshaping how we consume entertainment, the humble TV is slowly being overtaken by a bigger player:…
Crowdsource location app Traffic Lite hits Nigeria’s streets
New community-based app Traffic Lite by Nigerian software developer Panthelope Technologies has been launched in an attempt too curb Lagos’ notorious traffic. Traffic Lite…
How to value your startup? This podcast by StartUp tells you all about it
The five-year-old ride-sharing app, Uber, is valued at US$40-billion while the three-year-old photo messaging app, SnapChat, is worth an estimated US$10-billion. The latter only…
3 ways to go about hiring foreign skills for your SA startup
Even before I was involved in the tech entrepreneur scene in SA and before I ran an immigration and visa services firm, I noticed…
Amendments to Section 12J under the Income Tax Act welcomed by VCs
Complex legal or financial regulations are all too often cited as South Africa’s main obstacles for flourishing entrepreneurial activity. First introoduced in 2009, Section…
U-Start Africa: SA entrepreneurship is in a very good space
After radio host and entrepreneur Kieno Kammies‘ introduction, the annual U-Start Conference kicked-off today at the Cape Town City Hall. Stefano Giudotti and Zachariah…
Ackerman: even big businesses face small business challenges [U-Start Africa]
Gareth Ackerman may be the scion of one of South Africa’s most prominent business families but he has his own retail entrepreneurship story that…
Community-based Bandwidth Barn incubator comes to Khayelitsha
Woodstock’s Bandwidth Barn by The Cape IT Initiative (CiTi) is one of the most important tech hubs for Cape Town, South African-based entrepreneurs, techies,…
Be wary of being an entrepreneur for too long
I can’t tell you how relieved I was to reorganise my priorities at the end of 2013 and simply say ‘no’. No more entrepreneurship…
New ecommerce site Zwipit wants your old phone for cash
South Africa has a lot of phones. With a mobile penetration rate exceeding that of the population by almost a third, one can easily…
Africa Twenty10 accelerator is calling for first intake of savvy startups
The Africa Twenty10 accelerator programme is looking for local startups that would help solve the problem of fragmentation and small market sizes on the continent….
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