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Successful Secrets of Entrepreneurs
There are many keys to achieving success as an entrepreneur. Support from family, friends, colleagues and clients is vital. Good financial management – particularly cash flow – can make or break an enterprise. A great idea also helps – as does effective marketing. But, in my experience, there’s one thing that outweighs all of these.
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Young South African Programmer Bags R71000
ITweb Reports
“A grade 11 pupil from Kuilsriver, in the Western Cape, has won the top prize in the final round of the Standard Bank/Computer Society of SA (CSSA) South African Computer Olympiad, held in Cape Town this weekend.
Francois Conradie, a grade 11 learner at De Kuilen High School, won R41 000, the Standard Bank [...]
Upcoming Events, BarCamp’s and IdeaCamp
Date: 11 October 2008
Venue: Agilisto offices
Register and see the list of proposed sessions
Date: 18 October 2008
Venue: Maison de la Culture – Douta SECK , Avenue Blaise Diagne – Dakar Senegal
More details and register at the wiki
Date: 11 October 2008
Venue: Mountain View, California, Google Campus
Register and More details at the Wiki and visit the blog for the [...]
Quick Hits for 04-10-2008
Tech elite use the internet to fight TB
“Nachtwey’s photos portraying victims of the increasingly drug-resistant deadly disease and dire conditions in Africa and elsewhere are spreading on the internet with help from tech firms including YouTube and Akamai.”
Read more at M&G and TED
Social Media in Africa, Part 1
“Contrary to popular belief, Africa is not [...]
Changing consumer behavior with mobile broadband?
Image via Wikipedia
Mybroadband reports on how the ratio of mobile broadband in the UK has exceeded that of even Wifi:
“Point Topic’s recent survey of mobile broadband users shows that the UK mobile phone companies have managed to grow their market share to 47% of users accessing the internet away from home or work. This [...]
Private Equity Fund to Inject $125 Million in Africa
AllAfrica Reports,
A PRIVATE equity fund plans to put money in risk capital investments and other business support to five African countries, a senior manager announced last week. The GroFin Africa fund has so far raised $125m at its fund’s first closing.
The fund said in a statement recently that it would invest between $100,000 and $1m [...]
Interesting Reads on Cellular … with some prerspective from Africa
Here are are few of the interesting articles i have read in the past week on mobile and some of my thoughts.
SMS to the rescue, Text Messaging bridges the digital divide
“Ken Banks and kiwanja.net have developed the FrontlineSMS text-messaging hub that allows two-way communication between NGOs and their field workers using the SMS functionality of [...]
Usobomvu Youth Fund, Assisting young entrepreneurs
The Usobomvu Youth Fund is a South African goverment initiative setup in 2001, that aims to assist Youth Entrepreneurs with the setup of businesses, promoting entrepreneurship, job creation, skills development and skills transfer among South Africans between the ages of 18 and 35. The youth fund offers several programmes to meet these requirements.
Usobomvu offers [...]
Insite 2008, Pictures
Some pictures from Insite 2008
Tank, Helping you build really simple websites
Tank, a web 2.0 startup out of South Africa is online web site creator and host which makes it really easy (and i mean really easy, like Grand Ma easy) to build simple websites. This is the second startup out of South Africa that is playing in the same market. Synthasite founded by Vinny Lingham [...]
