Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 26, 2021
Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post. With the advent of the internet, every opportunity is global, since every customer can see you from anywhere in the world.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
Wonga, the well known short term lender, is being used as the front for an email and SMS phishing scam perpetrated by a gang on internet fraudsters. The scam has been targeting consumers in South Africa, a country where online consumers face a high risk of internet fraud , for the past year. How to identify the scam.
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thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
Mobile advertising became more targeted and user friendly by adapting to the small screen — but advertisers are slow to adopt , with much upside still to come. As Western growth stalls, and emerging and frontier markets (such as Africa) grow, we will collaborate in ways not imagined before. And Beyond….
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. Back in the days of straight advertising, it was important to have a name that explained what your company specialised in so the audience would be drawn to it. Thanks to Chris Wain, Africa Travel ! #4-
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 3, 2013
Jeff Bezos revolutionized the world of e-commerce with the launch of Amazon, now one of the most popular mass Internet retailers today. Bezos also earns credit for developing the concept of “predictive analytics,” which targets product listings and advertisements to shoppers based on their shopping history.
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2019
Plus he worked as a ski-guide, had mobile disco, was an agency creative director in South Africa, rasied several million in Silicon Valley for a SAS startup long before that was popular and of course he invented that other USB power charger long before launching MAGFAST. This, he believes, is the only real way to get through to consumers.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
I mean, 85% of millennials, for example, are now on a smartphone, and we’ve seen internet access grown around the world. He lived in the middle of Africa in a pretty rural place. He’d spend all of his money that he raised on an hour’s worth of internet access. And he’d contribute to this project, Ubuntu.
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