F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Zoona: mobile money helping Zambia’s unbanked populace
What is Africa’s biggest problem when it comes to money and banks? Easy: in many parts of the continent there are large portions of…
Insights from a VC: Social networks overdone, but storage is hot
I spoke with Bob Ackerman, managing director of US-based Allegis Capital and a veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalist about some of the trends and…
7 reasons to bootstrap: Angels, VCs or none of the above?
The venture capitalist (VC) community is disdainful of angel investors and their puny funds, but the angels can do deals that VCs cannot because…
Startups: What VCs look for
Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs often don’t see eye-to-eye, and in South Africa in particular, there seems to be a very real gap in meeting…